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Gessen, Keith. All the Sad Young Literary Men.(Brief article)(Book review)
Gessen, Keith. All the Sad Young Literary Men. Viking. Apr. 2008. c.242p. ISBN 978-0-670-01855-0. $24.95. F
In his first novel, Russian-born Gessen (founder, n+1) continues many of the same themes of his excellent short story "Like Vaclav," often with hilarious results. The book focuses on Sam, Mark, and Keith, young "literary men" with ambitious plans to change the world. Unfortunately, these plans are often derailed by their difficulties in dealing with young adulthood. Mark is not so diligently working on a dissertation about the Mensheviks in dreary Syracuse, NY, while reeling from a recent divorce. Sam ...
- ALL THE SAD YOUNG LITERARY MEN.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Harvard Review Kafatou, Sarah December 1, 2008 700+ words
ALL THE SAD YOUNG LITERARY MEN by Keith Gessen Viking Penguin, 2008, $24.95 cloth, ISBN...novel. He, not his triad of fictional alter egos, is the real young literary man, and if he's sad, it's because that's how life so...
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...April 26 (ANTARA) - About 150 foreign and 250 Indonesian literary men will attend the 13th Nusantara Literati Gathering to be held...Anwar, said here over the weekend. Most of the foreign literary men who have confirmed their participation are those from Brunei...
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- News wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia) September 11, 2003 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY) Darley, Mica April 20, 2004 700+ words
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- Pride and pretence
- Magazine article from: New Statesman Periyan, Natasha June 16, 2008 700+ words
Pride and pretence All the Sad Young Literary Men Keith Gessen William Heinemann, 256pp. 12.99...failure of his relationship. Each of Gessen's sad, young literary men has pretensions to godlike greatness, but each is...
- BOOK NOTES.(Books)
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) April 27, 2008 700+ words
...800) 878-7323. Thursday Keith Gessen - The founder of the magazine n+1 talks about his new novel, "Sad Young Literary Men," 7:30 p.m., Powell's Books on Hawthorne, 3723 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd., Portland. (800) 878-7323...
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- Magazine article from: Libraries and the Cultural Record Houston, George W. June 22, 2008 700+ words
...sent briefly to Armenia on a diplomatic mission. He took with him not only political advisors but also a group of young literary men. (3) On his way back to Italy he made a point of stopping briefly on the island of Rhodes, probably to study...
- Something changed
- Newspaper article from: The Independent Weekly Fellerath, David July 2, 2008 700+ words
...This scene of cultural one-upmanship is entirely consistent with Reprises milieu of self-absorbed, ambitious young literary men. Something of a Gen X/Y Jules and Jim, this Norwegian production tells the story of Erik and Phillip, dose...
