But you don't need to be a devotee of lit chat to read his novel. The sad young literary men of the title are named Mark, Keith and Sam, and their stories, which connect only tangentially, are told in ...

Acclaimed Indian filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee is set to direct an adaptation of Keith Gessen’s novel “A Terrible Country,” marking his English-language debut and first British film. Shubham Saraf ...

Introduction / Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb -- Welcome to San Diego / Jordan Kisner -- Los Angeles plays itself / Dayna Tortorici -- Modern Fresno / Michael Thomsen -- Bankrupt in Seattle / Jenny ...

On All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen, A Mercy by Toni Morrison, Home by Marilynne Robinson, and Netherland by Joseph O’Neill. Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our ...

This interesting and agreeable first novel, by a young writer who already packs a formidable resumé, is a considerably better-than-average exercise in slacker fiction, a genre of which I confess to ...

In The New Yorker’s “Love and Anger: The drama of disciplining a toddler,” Keith Gessen writes about the difficulties of parenting a toddler after the birth of a sibling. Gessen writes about the ...

I love summers because I can read for fun; this summer, most of what I read sucked. All sucked, that is, but one: Keith Gessen’s jewel of a debut, All the Sad, Young, Literary Men. The title implies ...