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# Keith Gessen

(1975)   Publisher   United States

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Keith Gessen is a publisher from the United States, best known for *All the Sad Young Literary Men*.

## Quick Facts About Keith Gessen

Born January 9, 1975

Nationality United States

Profession Publisher

Notable works All the Sad Young Literary Men

Spouse Emily Gould

## About Keith Gessen

Keith Gessen is a Russian-born American novelist, journalist, and translator. He is a founding editor of American literary magazine n+1 and an associate professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2008 he was named a "5 under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation.

##  Quotes by Keith Gessen

> [In 1939, Orwell wrote a long essay titled 'Inside the Whale,' about modernism, the nineteen-thirties, Henry Miller, and 'Tropic of Cancer.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/in-1939-orwell-wrote-a-long-essay-titled-inside-the-whale-about/)

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> [“Honestly,” he says, “I judge writers on how they write queries. If you’re a good writer, you’re a good writer.” And if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/honestly-he-says-i-judge-writers-on-how-they-write-queries-if-you-re/)

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> [In 1959, Moscow gave space to an exhibition of American consumer goods, and my father, also a member of this generation, tasted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/in-1959-moscow-gave-space-to-an-exhibition-of-american-consumer-goods/)

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> [All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/all-literature-has-this-moral-strain-but-in-russian-literature-it-s/)

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> [One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/one-changes-as-a-writer-fairly-quickly-what-you-wrote-six-months-or-a/)

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> [In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/in-the-fall-of-1963-in-leningrad-in-what-was-then-the-union-of-soviet/)

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> [I remember reading Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' in my grandmother's Moscow apartment and feeling this call to be a better person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/i-remember-reading-dostoevsky-s-the-idiot-in-my-grandmother-s-moscow/)

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> [“The sanatorium itself was charming, a group of cabins in the woods, a place for overworked urbanites to feel pleasantly melancholic. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/the-sanatorium-itself-was-charming-a-group-of-cabins-in-the-woods-a/)

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> [The government, as a rule, discourages specialization: Military officers and diplomats are constantly transferred from one post to another, from one region…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/the-government-as-a-rule-discourages-specialization-military-officers/)

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> [From the start of his administration, President Barack Obama had tried to lower tensions with Russia and refocus American attention on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/from-the-start-of-his-administration-president-barack-obama-had-tried/)

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> [My friend Leonid Shvets is a long-time journalist, commentator, and editor. He was born in Belarus and came to Kharkiv, in eastern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/my-friend-leonid-shvets-is-a-long-time-journalist-commentator-and/)

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> [I think that the basement where Orwell washed dishes in Paris was his first lesson in anti-humbug - and part of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/i-think-that-the-basement-where-orwell-washed-dishes-in-paris-was-his/)

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> [I met with an Automaidan activist who was part of a self-appointed group drafting a lustration law for parliament, which would exclude…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/i-met-with-an-automaidan-activist-who-was-part-of-a-self-appointed/)

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> [I've travelled to some of the places where Russian language and Russian culture were made part of the fabric of life long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/i-ve-travelled-to-some-of-the-places-where-russian-language-and/)

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> [One of the most influential of the post-Soviet books was the Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin's 'Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization' (1995),…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/one-of-the-most-influential-of-the-post-soviet-books-was-the/)

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> [While I was in Astana, a ballet master from St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre staged a performance of 'Giselle' in the opera hall.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/while-i-was-in-astana-a-ballet-master-from-st-petersburg-s-mariinsky/)

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> [The imputation to Brodsky of Russian nationalist views is, of course, paradoxical and worth considering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/the-imputation-to-brodsky-of-russian-nationalist-views-is-of-course/)

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> [Bilingualism used to have an undeservedly bad reputation; then it got an undeservedly exalted one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/bilingualism-used-to-have-an-undeservedly-bad-reputation-then-it-got/)

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> [“She had such control of tone , in her text messages, she was the Edith Wharton of text messaging.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/she-had-such-control-of-tone-in-her-text-messages-she-was-the-edith/)

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> [I left the world of jail with plenty of relief but, more than anything, with a sense of unease that I still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/i-left-the-world-of-jail-with-plenty-of-relief-but-more-than-anything/)

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> [People who can't speak Russian will be less susceptible to Russian propaganda. But they will also be less susceptible to the poetry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/people-who-can-t-speak-russian-will-be-less-susceptible-to-russian/)

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> [Left Bank Astana was beautiful at night, each building, it seemed, with its own nighttime color scheme and the street lamps all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/left-bank-astana-was-beautiful-at-night-each-building-it-seemed-with/)

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> [“He was getting to be a certain age, he thought. It was the age when his never-to-be-written masterpieces had begun to outweigh…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/he-was-getting-to-be-a-certain-age-he-thought-it-was-the-age-when-his/)

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> [I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/i-think-yelena-akhtiorskaya-is-a-genius-what-she-manages-to-do/)

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> [After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/after-stalin-died-the-soviet-union-began-inching-toward-the-world/)

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> [“You had to be fundamentally stupid , I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/you-had-to-be-fundamentally-stupid-i-sometimes-thought-to-become-the/)

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> [In truth, I was desperate to leave New York. And Moscow was a special place for me. It was the city where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/in-truth-i-was-desperate-to-leave-new-york-and-moscow-was-a-special/)

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> [Baba Seva - Seva Efraimovna Gekhtman - was born in a small town in Ukraine in 1919. Her father was an accountant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/baba-seva-seva-efraimovna-gekhtman-was-born-in-a-small-town-in/)

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> [The sudden collapse of the monarchy that had ruled Russia for three hundred years led to chaos. Russia immediately became, as one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/the-sudden-collapse-of-the-monarchy-that-had-ruled-russia-for-three/)

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> [Stalin was born Joseph Dzhugashvili in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. His father was a hard-drinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/stalin-was-born-joseph-dzhugashvili-in-1878-in-gori-georgia-on-the/)

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> [During two decades, on and off, reporting in Russia and the post-Soviet states - in the turbulent '90s, the wealthy but depressing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/during-two-decades-on-and-off-reporting-in-russia-and-the-post-soviet/)

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> [To be on the other side of the law-and-order machine in this country is awful. It is dehumanizing and degrading and deforming.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/to-be-on-the-other-side-of-the-law-and-order-machine-in-this-country/)

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> [I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/i-grew-up-in-this-household-where-reading-was-the-most-noble-thing/)

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> [I no longer remember when I started speaking to Raffi in Russian. I didn't speak to him in Russian when he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/i-no-longer-remember-when-i-started-speaking-to-raffi-in-russian-i/)

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> [My grandmother was content to sit in the back yard wearing her old, wide-brimmed summer hat and occasionally getting up to feed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/my-grandmother-was-content-to-sit-in-the-back-yard-wearing-her-old/)

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> [When we started reading books to Raffi, I included some Russian ones. A friend had handed down a beautiful book of Daniil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/when-we-started-reading-books-to-raffi-i-included-some-russian-ones-a/)

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> [Being a Russian oligarch these days isn't easy. The best and brightest of them are in exile or in jail; others, after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/being-a-russian-oligarch-these-days-isn-t-easy-the-best-and-brightest/)

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> [Astana has been the capital of Kazakhstan only since 1997, three years after Nazarbayev told a stunned parliament that a prosperous, independent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/astana-has-been-the-capital-of-kazakhstan-only-since-1997-three-years/)

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> [In the post-Soviet era, the most interesting work on the Stalinist period has been social history, far beyond the Kremlin walls -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/in-the-post-soviet-era-the-most-interesting-work-on-the-stalinist/)

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> [My parents were attached to Russian culture by a thousand ineradicable ties. But they did not cut me off from American society,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/my-parents-were-attached-to-russian-culture-by-a-thousand/)

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