Keith Gessen Professions : NovelistBorn : January 9, 1975 Browse All Authors Top 28 quotes by Keith Gessen We will be judged as a society and as a culture by how we treated our meanest and most vulnerable citizens. If we keep going the way we're going, we will be judged very, very harshly - and sooner, perhaps, than we think. Keith Gessen thinkkeep-goingsocietyculture I left the world of jail with plenty of relief but, more than anything, with a sense of unease that I still can't quite shake. Keith Gessen anythingmorejailworld I've travelled to some of the places where Russian language and Russian culture were made part of the fabric of life long before Lenin arrived at Finland Station - and where Russian is now being rolled back, post-1991. Keith Gessen languagelifelongculture The imputation to Brodsky of Russian nationalist views is, of course, paradoxical and worth considering. Keith Gessen courseworthparadoxicalviews People who can't speak Russian will be less susceptible to Russian propaganda. But they will also be less susceptible to the poetry of Joseph Brodsky. Keith Gessen willpoetryspeakpeople In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev stole the young poet Joseph Brodsky's girlfriend. Keith Gessen poetgirlfriendyoungfall After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow hosted an exhibit of the works of Picasso. Keith Gessen museumagainjazzworld In 1959, Moscow gave space to an exhibition of American consumer goods, and my father, also a member of this generation, tasted Pepsi for the first time. Keith Gessen generationspacetimefather Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelistAll Authors
