Keith Gessen
Author · 8 books
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 Manager, and City by City. He lives in New York with his wife, the author and publisher Emily Gould, and their son, Raphy, who likes squishy candy.
Books
Vanity Fair's How a Book is Born
The Making of The Art of Fielding
2011
n+1 Issue 5
Decivilizing Process
2007
City by City
Dispatches from the American Metropolis
2015
n+1 Issue 10
Self-Improvement
2010
A Terrible Country
2018
All the Sad Young Literary Men
2008
Raising Raffi
The First Five Years
2022
Diary of a Very Bad Year
Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager
2010
