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Keith Gessen
» Episode 2: You Always Remember The First Time“In New York, they saved. They saved on orange juice, sliced bread, they saved on coffee. On movies, magazines, museum admission (Friday nights).”
Keith Gessen was born in Russia, and educated at Harvard and Syracuse. He is a founder of the magazine n+1 and translator of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Voices from Chernobyl. His work has also appeared in Dissent, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books. All the Sad Young Literary Men is his first book. He lives in Brooklyn.
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