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Keith Gessen

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Russian Federation

gender

male

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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, was published in April 2008.

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Keith Gessen's Books

Average rating: 3.64 · 3,509 ratings · 687 reviews · 19 distinct works · Similar authors

	All the Sad Young Literary Men 2.9 of 5 stars 2.90 avg rating — 950 ratings — published 2008 — 22 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vanity Fair's How a Book is Born: The Making of The Art of Fielding by Keith Gessen, Graydon Carter (Introduction) 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager 3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	P.S.1 Symposium: A Practical Avant-Garde (Research Branch Pamphlet No.1) 3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2007	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Todos los Jóvenes Tristes y Literarios 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Keith Gessen (Translator), Anna Summers (Translator) 3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 980 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell, George Packer (Editor), Keith Gessen (Introduction) 4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1941 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America by Carla Blumenkranz (Editor), Keith Gessen (Editor), Mark Greif (Editor) 3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	n+1; What We Should Have Known: Two Discussions (Research Branch Pamphlet No.2) by Andrew S. Jacobs, Keith Gessen 3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2007	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Through the Wall by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Anna Summers (Translator), Keith Gessen (Translator) 3.28 of 5 stars 3.28 avg rating — 39 ratings — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

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“One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.”
― Keith Gessen

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“Honestly,” he says, “I judge writers on how they write queries. If you’re a good writer, you’re a good writer.” And if not, then not.”
― Keith Gessen

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