Raising Raffi: The First Five Years
memoir · First published 2022
Author guide
Keith Gessen Books in Order
Keith Gessen is a Russian-born American novelist, journalist, translator from Russian, and founding editor of n+1. He teaches journalism at Columbia University and contributes to publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and the London Review of Books. He is the author of two novels, a memoir-in-essays about fatherhood, and nonfiction about the publishing of The Art of Fielding.
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Keith Gessen's Newest Book
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All the Sad Young Literary Men
Gessen's debut novel and earliest major authored book.
A Terrible Country
A mature, widely recognized novel that introduces his recurring concerns with Russia, politics, family, and belonging.
Raising Raffi: The First Five Years
A standalone memoir-in-essays about fatherhood and family life.
Outside the series
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Novels (3)
- All the Sad Young Literary Men
novel · 2008
In All The Sad Young Literary Men Gessen charts the lives of Mark, Keith, and Sam as they over-process their college days, under-process relationships past and present, and pathetically as well as triumphantly struggle their way through a…
- Vanity Fair's How a Book Is Born: The Making of The Art of Fielding
nonfiction · 2011
- A Terrible Country
novel · 2018
"A literary triumph about Russia, family, love, and loyalty--the first novel in ten years from a founding editor of n+1 and author of All the Sad Young Literary Men. When Andrei Kaplan's older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to…
Nonfiction (1)
- Raising Raffi: The First Five Years
memoir · 2022