Nick
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34 years old
BROOKLYN, New York
United States
Last Login: 7/27/2008
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| General | | | Music | The Pogues, Tom Waits, The Clash, Drive-By Truckers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Elliott Smith, The Vandals, Guns 'n Roses, the Walkmen, Johnny Cash, Ice Cube, Neko Case, Django Reinhardt, Minor Threat, Weezer, Steve Earle, Be Your Own Pet, Jay-Z, Le Tigre, Hank Williams, Gorillaz, Big Star, Pixies | | Movies | The Third Man, Chinatown, Raising Arizona, Dr. Strangelove, Menace II Society, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Tommy Boy, Gegen die Wand, Sunset Boulevard, Bridge on the River Kwai, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Taxi Driver, Vertigo, Empire Strikes Back, Platoon | | Television | The Wire | | Books | Dead Souls, Catch-22, The Big Sleep, Morte D'Urban, anything by Elmore Leonard, Another Country, Magic Mountain, The Grifters, The Quiet American, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Put Out More Flags, The Recognitions, The Maltese Falcon, The Grifters, Moby Dick, Don Quijote, Day of the Locust, As I Lay Dying, Post Office, The Brothers Karamazov, Russian Debutante's Handbook, The Berlin Stories |
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Zodiac Sign: | Leo | | Occupation: | Writer |
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About me:
I'm a journalist and novelist who lives in Brooklyn. This summer I'll be moving to Berlin as the correspondent there for the New York Times.
My novel, LAST ONE IN, is coming out this summer. It's a satire set during the Iraq invasion, about a gossip columnist who is forced to embed with the Marines for the fight to Baghdad.
Check out the
New York Daily Herald's coverage of the build-up to the war.
“[A] steady flow of Yossarian-flavored absurdity.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Compelling...Uses humor to illuminate the deadly absurdities of war…a deft command of tone—from the slapstick to the tragic.”
— Kirkus Reviews
“As someone who donned a gasmask and tried but failed to embed with the U.S. Marines in Kuwait, I can say with gusto that Nicholas Kulish gets it exactly right: The high-testosterone, the needless WMD fears, the ineluctable forward drive of the whole ill-conceived operation. Kulish’s funny, engaging novel makes clear that the gargantuan mess we’ve made in Iraq all started with an impressionable and largely incompetent reporting corps who saw the invasion not as a tragic mistake but as a rollicking good adventure.”
— Hampton Sides, bestselling author of "Blood and Thunder" and "Ghost Soldiers"
“Last One In is a war story told with wit and sympathy. Sharply written and instantly engaging, it is a very funny book that is part of a distinctive literary tradition: the grunt’s comedy. Like Shakespeare’s Pistol or the Good Soldier Svejk, Last One In is embedded down with the grunts—the grunts of the media as well as the military—down where politics and ideology are less important than surviving.”
— Arthur Phillips, author of "Prague" and "The Egyptologist"
“Like Tim O’Brien’s 'Going After Cacciato' or David O. Russell’s film 'Three Kings,' Nicholas Kulish’s witty, fast-paced and sympathetic novel set at the beginning of the war in Iraq brings home both the terror and the absurdity of combat in a way that nonfiction rarely can.”
— Adam Langer, author of Crossing California and The Washington Story
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I'll be doing a short reading tour this summer. It would be longer but I'm moving back to Berlin in August.
July 8th - Washington, DC - Politics & Prose (w/Ben Dolnick, "Zoology"), 5:00 p.m.
July 9th - Arlington, VA - Olsson's Courthouse, 7:00 p.m.
July 10th - New York, NY - Barnes & Noble, Astor Place, 7:00 p.m.
July 12th - Brooklyn, NY - Pete's Candy Store, 7:30 p.m.
July 17th - Boston, MA - Borders Books & Music, Back Bay, 7:00 p.m.
July 20th - Los Angeles, CA - Book Soup, 7:00 p.m.
July 25th - New York, NY - Rocky Sullivan's, 8:00 p.m.
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