NATHAN HILL’s short fiction has appeared in many literary
journals, including The Iowa Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review,
and Fiction, which awarded him its annual Fiction Prize. A native
Iowan, he lives with his wife in Naples, Florida.
“If any novel defied an elevator pitch in 2016, it was The
Nix. Acid critique of millennial entitlement, videogame addiction,
and clueless academia; tender meditation on childhood friendship,
first loves, and maternal abandonment; handy tutorial on ’60s
radicalism and Norwegian ghost mythology: Nathan Hill’s
magnificently overstuffed debut contains multitudes, and then some.
. . . the story surges, ricocheting from sleepy ’80s suburbia
and the 1968 DNC riots to WWII-era Norway, post-9/11 Iraq, and
beyond. It’s not just that Hill is a brilliantly surreal social
satirist in the gonzo mode of Don DeLillo or Thomas Pynchon (a male
news anchor’s face is ‘smooth as cake fondant’; one doomed union is
‘like a spoon married to a garbage disposal’), it’s that he does it
all with so much wit and style and heart.” —Leah Greenblatt,
Entertainment Weekly (Best Book of 2016)
“A fantastic novel about love, betrayal, politics and pop
culture—as good as the best Michael Chabon or Jonathan Franzen.”
—People
“It broke my heart, this book. Time after time. It made me laugh
just as often. I loved it on the first page as powerfully as I did
on the last.” —Jason Sheehan, NPR.org
“Funny, endlessly inventive. . . . [a] wild tragicomic tangle of
[Hill’s] imagination.” —Entertainment Weekly (A-)
“Hill has so much talent to burn that he can pull of just about any
style, imagine himself into any person and convincingly portray any
place or time. The Nix is hugely entertaining and unfailingly
smart, and the author seems incapable of writing a pedestrian
sentence or spinning a boring story. . . . [A] supersize and
audacious novel of American misadventure.” —Teddy Wayne, The New
York Times Book Review
“Irresistible. . . . A major new comic novelist . . . . Hill is a
sharp social observer, hyper-alert to the absurdities of modern
life. . . . his enormous book arrives as one of the stars of the
fall season. . . . readers will find this novel. And they’ll be
dazzled.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“Hill is an uncommonly profound observer, illuminating much about
the relationships between parents and children. . . . Nathan
Hill is an important new writer, able to variously make readers
laugh out loud while providing a melancholy, resonant tale.” —Eliot
Schrefer, USA Today (4/4 Stars)
"[A] great sprawling feast of a first novel. . . . Hill writes with
an astonishingly sure hand for a young author. . . . let's just
call him the real thing." —Dan Cryer, Newsday
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