Keith Gessen
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Russian Federation
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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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"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)













