Keith Gessen
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male
place of birth
Russian Federation
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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
about this author
Keith Gessen (b. 1975) is editor-in-chief of n+1, a twice-yearly magazine of literature, politics, and culture based in New York City. He graduated from Harvard College and earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 2004.
Gessen, who was born in Russia, has written about Russia for The Atlantic and the New York Review of Books. In 2005, Dalkey Archive Press published Gessen's translation of Svetlana Alexievich’s Tchernobylskaia Molitva (Voices from Chernobyl), an oral history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Gessen has also written about books for magazines including Dissent, Slate, and New York, where he was the regular book critic.
His first novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men, wa...more
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All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen avg rating 2.83 — 371 ratings — published 2008 7 editions |
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All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell, George Packer Keith Gessen avg rating 4.17 — 35 ratings — published 2008 |
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n+1; What We Should Have Known: Two Discussions (Research Branch Pamphlet No.2) by Andrew S. Jacobs, Keith Gessen avg rating 3.25 — 12 ratings — published 2007 |
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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Keith Gessen Anna Summers avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2009 |
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Paper Monument #2 by Andrew Berardini, James Howard Naomi Fry avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2008 |
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Ein Schritt weiter. Die n+1-Anthologie by Benjamin Kunkel, Keith Gessen avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2008 |
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"She had such control of tone, in her text messages, she was the Edith Wharton of text messaging."
— Keith Gessen (All the Sad Young Literary Men)
— Keith Gessen (All the Sad Young Literary Men)
