--- title: "Best Keith Gessen Quotes" description: "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..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-keith-gessen-56051.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Keith Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-keith-gessen-56051.jpg) # Keith Gessen (1975) Publisher United States **46** quotes in **190** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet 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 · Page 2 > [One of the best and most challenging books about Orwell is by the socialist literary critic Raymond Williams. As a critic -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/one-of-the-best-and-most-challenging-books-about-orwell-is-by-the/) [Keith Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-gessen/) [Best](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/best/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2b/keith-gessen-14501_best_one-of-the-best-and-most-challenging-boo_1038005.jpg) > [Astana is a government city, not a tourist city, but all you do is tour it. You tour it in the cab…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/astana-is-a-government-city-not-a-tourist-city-but-all-you-do-is-tour/) [Keith Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-gessen/) [Airport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/airport/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/485/keith-gessen-14501_airport_astana-is-a-government-city-not-a-touris_1683456.png) > [“Fame—fame was the anti-death. But it seemed to slither from his grasp, seemed to giggle and retreat, seemed to hide behind a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/fame-fame-was-the-anti-death-but-it-seemed-to-slither-from-his-grasp/) [Keith Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-gessen/) [Fame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fame/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be1/keith-gessen-14501_fame_fame-fame-was-the-anti-death-but-it-seem_1839464.png) > [Brodsky was born in May, 1940, a year before the German invasion. His mother worked as an accountant; his father was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/brodsky-was-born-in-may-1940-a-year-before-the-german-invasion-his/) [Keith Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-gessen/) [Born](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/born/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/keith-gessen-14501_born_brodsky-was-born-in-may-1940-a-year-befo_2849686.jpg) > [We will be judged as a society and as a culture by how we treated our meanest and most vulnerable citizens. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/we-will-be-judged-as-a-society-and-as-a-culture-by-how-we-treated-our/) [Keith Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-gessen/) [Culture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/culture/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5de/keith-gessen-14501_culture_we-will-be-judged-as-a-society-and-as-a_2139491.png) > [My parents and my brother and I left the Soviet Union in 1981. I was six, and Dima was sixteen, and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-gessen/my-parents-and-my-brother-and-i-left-the-soviet-union-in-1981-i-was/) [Keith Gessen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-gessen/) [American](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afa/keith-gessen-14501_american_my-parents-and-my-brother-and-i-left-the_1537912.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-gessen/#itemlist", "name": "Keith Gessen Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One of the best and most challenging books about Orwell is by the socialist literary critic Raymond Williams. 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