Keith Gessen
Jordan talks with Keith Gessen about his new memoir of fatherhood,\xa0Raising Raffi: The First Five Years,\xa0and the challenges -- and wonders -- of being a parent and a writer, and what he thinks Raffi will think of the book when he's older.
MENTIONED:\xa0
- Raising America by Ann Hulbert
- "Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City"\xa0by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Emily Oster, economics professor and parenting advisor
- The Kazdin Method
Keith Gessen is a founding editor of\xa0n+1\xa0and a contributor to\xa0The\xa0New Yorker,\xa0the\xa0New York Times Magazine, and the\xa0London Review of Books. He is the editor of three nonfiction books and the translator or co-translator, from Russian, of a collection of short stories, a book of poems, and a work of oral history. He is also the author of two novels, \u201cAll the Sad Young Literary Men\u201d and "A Terrible Country," as well as a book of essays, "Raising Raffi."\xa0\xa0Gessen was born in Moscow and grew up outside of Boston. He graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in History and Literature in 1998, and subsequently received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Syracuse University. In 2014-2015 he was a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library.
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