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Keith Gessen

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Russian Federation

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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 3.87 avg rating — 4,280 ratings — published 2018 — 21 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 — 1,480 ratings — published 2008 — 27 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) 3.92 avg rating — 518 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
	Raising Raffi: The First Five Years 3.96 avg rating — 380 ratings — 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
	City by City: How Americans Actually Live by Keith Gessen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Squibb (Editor) 3.73 avg rating — 195 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
	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) 4.05 avg rating — 22 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 3.29 avg rating — 21 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
	Um país terrível: Um romance sobre a Rússia by Keith Gessen (Goodreads Author), Bernardo Ajzenberg (Translator), Maria Cecilia Brandi (Translator) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	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
	Raising Raffi: A Book about Fatherhood (For People Who Would Never Read Such a Book) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 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
	Occupy!: Die ersten Wochen in New York. Eine Dokumentation by Keith Gessen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mark Greif (Editor), Astra Taylor (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	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.”
― Keith Gessen

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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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“To cook and clean yourself is intolerable. But to have someone else do it is exhausting.”
― Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country

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