Nathaniel Rich (novelist)

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Nathaniel Rich
Born (1980-03-05) March 5, 1980 (age 44)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
Alma materYale University
Period2005–present
Genre
  • Novel
  • essay
Spouse
Meredith Angelson
​
(m. 2014)​
Children1
Relatives
Website
nathanielrich.com

Nathaniel Rich (born March 5, 1980) is an American novelist and essayist. Rich is the author of several books, was an editor for The Paris Review, and has contributed to several major magazines including The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, and The New York Review of Books.[1]

Early life

Rich is the son of

New York Times columnist, and Gail Winston, executive editor at HarperCollins. His youngest brother is writer Simon Rich. Rich attended Dalton School and is an alumnus of Yale University, where he studied literature. After graduating, he worked on the editorial staff of The New York Review of Books.[2]

Career

Rich moved to San Francisco to write San Francisco Noir, which the San Francisco Chronicle named one of the best books of 2005.[3] That year he was hired as an editor by The Paris Review.[4]

The Mayor's Tongue described by Carolyn See in The Washington Post as a "playful, highly intellectual novel about serious subjects – the failure of language, for one, and how we cope with that failure in order to keep ourselves sane".[5][6]

NPR's Alan Cheuse called Odds Against Tomorrow a "brilliantly conceived and extremely well-executed novel ... a knockout of a book."

New York Review of Books, "Let's just, right away, recognize how prescient this charming, terrifying, comic novel of apocalyptic manners is ... Rich is a gifted caricaturist and a gifted apocalyptist. His descriptions of the vagaries of both nature and human nature are stark, fresh, and convincing, full of surprise and recognition as both good comedy and good terror must be."[8]

Personal life

Rich lives in New Orleans with his wife, Meredith Angelson, and their son.[9]

Works

Fiction

  • The Mayor's Tongue.
    ISBN 978-1594489907
    .
  • Odds Against Tomorrow.
    ISBN 978-0374224240
    .
  • King Zeno. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2018
    ISBN 9780374181314
    .

Nonfiction

References

  1. ^ "About Author Nathaniel Rich". nathanielrich.com.
  2. ^ Holson, Laura M (January 4, 2013). "Nathaniel and Simon: The Brothers Rich". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013.
  3. ^ Villalon, Oscar (December 18, 2005). "Best books in a year of war, anxiety". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
  4. ^ Kreisler, Harry (2005). "Conversations with History". Institute of International Studies. University of California, Berkeley.
  5. ^ See, Carolyn (April 25, 2008). "Speaking in Tongues". The Washington Post. p. C02. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
  6. NPR.org
    . Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  7. NPR.org
    . Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  8. ^ Schine, Cathleen (April 25, 2013). "A Genius for Disaster". The New York Review of Books.
  9. The New Orleans Advocate
    .
  10. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original
     on April 2, 2020.

External links
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