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Keith Gessen was born in Moscow in 1975 and came to the United States with his family when he was six years old. He is a co-founder of the literary magazine n+1 and the author of the novels All the Sad Young Literary Men and A Terrible Country. He has written about Russia for the London Review of Books, n+1, the Nation, the New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine, and has translated or co-translated several books from Russian, including Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, and It's No Good by Kirill Medvedev. He is also the editor of the n+1 books What We Should Have Known, Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund ...more

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	A Terrible Country 3.90 avg rating — 1,913 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 the Sad Young Literary Men 2.91 avg rating — 1,359 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 (Goodreads Author), Graydon Carter (Introduction) 3.94 avg rating — 499 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	City by City: How Americans Actually Live by Keith Gessen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Squibb (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 by Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager, n+1 , Keith Gessen (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 650 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	How Did We Come to Know You? 3.36 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	The Wall in My Head: Words and Images from the Fall of the Iron Curtain by Keith Gessen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Words Without Borders (Editor) , Milan Kundera (Contributor) 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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) by Keith Gessen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), n+1 3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Keith Gessen (Goodreads Author) (Translator) , Anna Summers (Translator) 3.64 avg rating — 3,014 ratings — published 2009 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.25 avg rating — 947 ratings — published 1941 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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“One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.”
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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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“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.”
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The 10 Worst Books of 2018

As always the year brought us some fantastic new books, however it also brought us some truly awful books, Below are The 10 Worst Books of 2018 according to Open Letters. Have you read any of the books below? What book do you think is the worst?

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Elevation
Stephen King

4 votes, 80.0%

My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh

1 vote, 20.0%

The End
Karl Ove Knausgård

0 votes, 0.0%

The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner

0 votes, 0.0%

The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
Diane Williams

0 votes, 0.0%

A Terrible Country
Keith Gessen

0 votes, 0.0%

Lake Success
Gary Shteyngart

0 votes, 0.0%

Jeeves and the King of Clubs: A Novel in Homage to P.G. Wodehouse
Ben Schott

0 votes, 0.0%

In the House in the Dark of the Woods
Laird Hunt

0 votes, 0.0%

The Pisces
Melissa Broder

0 votes, 0.0%

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