Nick

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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