Keith Gessen on Becoming An Angry Dad

“Looking back on it, I think I’ve always been a kind of angry person. But I don’t know. I thought I was a patient person, at least. A nice person?”

Keith Gessen is the author of Raising Raffi, A Terrible Country, All the Sad Young Literary Men and a founding editor of n+1. He is the translator or co-translator, from Russian, of a collection of short stories, a book of poems, and a work of oral history, Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl. A contributor to The New Yorker and The London Review of Books, Gessen teaches journalism at Columbia and lives in New York with his wife and sons.