Keith Gessen

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gender

male

place of birth

Russian Federation

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http://keithgessen.tumblr.com/

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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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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avg rating: 3.00 | 524 ratings | 171 reviews | 14 distinct works

	All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen avg rating 2.85 — 413 ratings — published 2008 7 editions	my rating:
	All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell, George Packer (Editor), Keith Gessen (Introduction) avg rating 4.13 — 39 ratings — published 2008 2 editions	my rating:
	There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Keith Gessen (Translator), Anna Summers (Translator) avg rating 3.85 — 13 ratings — published 2009 2 editions	my rating:
	n+1; What We Should Have Known: Two Discussions (Research Branch Pamphlet No.2) by Andrew S. Jacobs, Keith Gessen avg rating 3.23 — 13 ratings — published 2007	my rating:
	Ein Schritt weiter. Die n+1-Anthologie by Benjamin Kunkel, Keith Gessen avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2008	my rating:
	Paper Monument #2 by Andrew Berardini, David Giles (Goodreads author) , Naomi Fry, Christopher Hsu, Noah Sheldon (Illustrator), Roger White (Editor), Dushko Petrovich (Editor), Mark Greif more... Keith Gessen, James Howard (Illustrator), Gregory Warner [close] avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2008	my rating:
	All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen, Scott Brick (Narrator) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen, Scott Brick (Narrator) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen, Scott Brick (Narrator) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	All the Sad Young Literary Men - on Playaway by Keith Gessen, Scott Brick (Narrator) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009	my rating:
	La Fabrique des jeunes gens tristes by Keith Gessen avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009	my rating:
	Voices From Chernobyl: Chronicle Of The Future by Svetlana Alexievich, Keith Gessen avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2005	my rating:
	Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, Keith Gessen (Translator) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	Diary of a Very Bad Year: Interviews with an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager by n+1, Keith Gessen avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010	my rating: