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Keith Gessen
Author; Editor-In-Chief, n+1
Keith Gessen is editor-in-chief of n+1, a twice-yearly magazine of literature, politics, and culture based in New York City.
Gessen 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. 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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Mark starts the book happily married.
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Writers, Gessen says, are just not cut out for it.
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No, but McSweeny’s has proved to be a useful literary foil, says Gessen.
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Gessen’s title harks back to a work by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and some readers aren’t pleased.
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All The Sad Young Literary Men is for college grads wondering “how this works,” says Gessen.
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It started as a bunch of stories, Gessen says.
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Gessen discusses the triptych structure of the book, and addresses some criticisms.
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Gessen always wanted to be one, but it took him a while to sit down and start.
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Finding a context for his parents and himself.