Keith Gessen
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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.
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- 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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