WELCOME
I’m Nick McDonell. I’m the author of eleven books, including the novels Twelve, An Expensive Education, and The Council of Animals, as well as a work of political theory, The Civilization of Perpetual Movement. Reporting for a variety of magazines, I’ve covered the wars in Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine. The resulting books of reportage include The End of Major Combat Operations and The Bodies in Person.
My latest, book, Quiet Street: on American Privilege, comes out August 22.
"Quiet Street is an exquisitely rendered horror story about American inequity, and how it mindlessly, immorally, reproduces itself. Unlike most such stories, however, this one left me believing in the possibility (and necessity) of drastic change. Nick McDonell writes with a scalpel in one hand, and in the other, a bushel of grace."
—Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom
Upcoming events
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09/19/23
7:00 pm
Corner Books with Lisa Lucas
1313 Madison Ave, New York, NY -
09/21/23
6:00 pm
Square Books and Thacker Radio in conversation with Terry McDonell
The Powerhouse, 413 S. 14th Street, Oxford, MS -
09/23/23
3:00 pm
Politics & Prose
Connecticut Avenue, Washington, DC. -
09/25/23
7:00 pm
Harvard Bookstore with Matt Aikins
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA -
09/26/23
7:00 pm
P&T Knitwear with Sarah Leonard
180 Orchard Street, New York, NY -
10/04/23
Time TBA
Book Soup
8818 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA. -
10/14/23
5:00 pm
Book Hampton
41 Main St, East Hampton, NY