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Nick Hilden

Nick Hilden's writing has appeared in the Daily Beast, Thrillist, Men’s Health, Vice, the Los Angeles Times, and more. You can follow his writing and adventures via Instagram or Twitter.

Writer Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of "The Road" at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas on November 16, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by (Jim Spellman/WireImage/Getty Images)

Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn’t actually write Westerns

Nick Hilden
Ernest Hemingway in "Hemingway" (A.E. Hotchner/PBS)

The androgyny of being Ernest: A gender-fluid reading of Hemingway that upends his macho image

Nick Hilden