Keith Gessen

14 Podcast Episodes

Keith Gessen

Keith Gessen

Jordan talks with Keith Gessen about his new memoir of fatherhood, Raising Raffi: The First Five Years, and the challeng... Read more

27 Jul 2022

49mins

Keith Gessen’s Battle Hymn of the Bear Dad

Keith Gessen’s Battle Hymn of the Bear Dad

On this week’s episode of Tell Me About Your Father, we speak with author Keith Gessen about his new memoir “Raising Raf... Read more

27 Jun 2022

57mins

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New Dad Season 2 Episode 6: The Keith Gessen Interview

New Dad Season 2 Episode 6: The Keith Gessen Interview

In today's episode of New Dad we speak with Keith Gessen about his newest book Raising Raffi.  Keith was raised in Russi... Read more

17 Jun 2022

1hr 19mins

Keith Gessen, "Raising Raffi: The First Five Years" (Viking, 2022)

Keith Gessen, "Raising Raffi: The First Five Years" (Viking, 2022)

"I was not prepared to be a father--this much I knew."Keith Gessen was nearing forty and hadn't given much thought to th... Read more

7 Jun 2022

55mins

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A Terrible Country: Keith Gessen and Vadim Nikitin

A Terrible Country: Keith Gessen and Vadim Nikitin

Novelist, journalist and translator Keith Gessen will be at the shop to read from and talk about his latest novel A Terr... Read more

14 May 2019

58mins

Keith Gessen

Keith Gessen

Writer Keith Gessen on Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift, Russian literature, and figuring out which stories to tell.To lear... Read more

19 Apr 2019

22mins

Sigrid Nunez | The Friend: A Novel with Keith Gessen | A Terrible Country: A Novel

Sigrid Nunez | The Friend: A Novel with Keith Gessen | A Terrible Country: A Novel

Sigrid Nunez won the 2018 National Book Award for The Friend, ''a penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memor... Read more

27 Feb 2019

57mins

Russian-American novelist Keith Gessen discusses his life and work

Russian-American novelist Keith Gessen discusses his life and work

Keith Gessen is a Russian-American writer, translator, and co-editor of the magazine n+1. In the first half of this podc... Read more

22 Feb 2019

1hr 19mins

Guest Episode: Keith Gessen

Guest Episode: Keith Gessen

Eric talks to New Yorker contributor Keith Gessen about his long history of writing for the magazine; the founding of N+... Read more

18 Feb 2019

33mins

Keith Gessen, “A Terrible Country” (Viking, 2018)

Keith Gessen, “A Terrible Country” (Viking, 2018)

The only job Andrei Kaplan has been able to find since completing his doctorate, is teaching an online, poorly-paid cour... Read more

13 Nov 2018

47mins

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