A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century,All the Sad YoungLiterary Mencharts the lives of Sam, Mark, and Keith, as they overthink their college years, underthink their love lives, and struggle through the encouragement of the women who love and despise them to find a semblance of maturity, responsibility, and even literary fame.

At every turn, at each character's misstep, this assured debut radiates with comedic warmth and biting honesty and signals the arrival of a brave and trenchant new writer.

Keith Gessen was born in Russia and raised in Massachusetts. A contributor toThe New Yorker, TheNew York Times Book Review,andNew Yorkmagazine, he is also a founding editor of the literary magazinen+1.He is the translator of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winningVoicesfrom Chernobyl,the forthcoming Penguin Classics edition of Ludmila Petruskevskaya'sScary Fairy Tales,and he wrote the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of Mikhail Bulgakov'sA Dead Man's Memoir.Gessen lives in Brooklyn, New York.