A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, All the Sad Young Literary Men charts 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.

All the Sad Young Literary Men

Keith Gessen

Vintage Books USA

A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at the opening of the twenty-first century, All the Sad Young Literary Men charts 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. Heartbroken in his university town, Mark tries to focus his attention on his graduate work concerning Russian revolt, only to be lured again and again to the free pornography on the library computers. Sam binds himself to the task of crafting the first great Zionist epic even though he speaks no Hebrew, has never visited Israel, and is not a practicing Jew. Keith, thwarted by inherited notions of greatness and memories of his broken family, finds solace in the arms of the selfless woman who most reminds him of his past. At every turn, at each character s misstep, All the Sad Young Literary Men radiates with comedic warmth and biting honesty and signals the arrival of a brave and trenchant new writer.

Literature & Fiction

William Heinemann

Inaugural issue. Polemics against the New Republic, McSweeney's, and the Weekly Standard. Mark Greif's "Against Exercise" and "Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy." Keith Gessen's "Eggers, Teen Idol." Benjamin Kunkel's "Horse Mountain." Patrick Giles on James McCourt. And the first and only English-language translation of Vladimir Sorokin's The Norm.

n+1, Number One: Negation

MASHA GESSEN

Marco Roth

Mark Greif

Benjamin Kunkel

Sam Lipsyte

Vladimir Sorokin

Dushko Petrovich

Joshua Glenn

n+1 Research

The aftermath of Bush s second election. Theory after the fall. Literary readings: cancel them. Is J. M. Coetzee afraid of life? Elif Batuman brings Isaac Babel s last living relatives to California. George Scialabba massacres Christopher Hitchens.

n+1, No. 2: Happiness

DANIEL SMITH

Elif Batuman

Alexander Kluge

Peter Gizzi

Rachel Sherman

Peter Frankel

Pankaj, Mishra

Winner of the Utne Reader Independent Press Award for Best Writing 2006. Technological excess, from email to porn to blogs. Basharat Peer sees torture in Kashmir, Eli S. Evans watches television in Los Angeles. A fable by Benjamin Kunkel, fiction about nuclear proliferation, a report on flying cars.

n+1 Issue 5: Decivilizing Process

Nancy Bauer

Daniel Albert

Carla Blumenkranz

Imraan Coovadia

Rebecca Curtis

Eli S. Evans

Meghan Falvey

Basharat Peer

Gemma Sieff

n+1 Foundation

Cultural Writing. Literary Criticism. The two discussions in WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN took place at the offices of n+1 in the summer of 2007. Eleven n+1 editors and contributors--including Caleb Crain, Meghan Falvey, Mark Greif, and Ilya Bernstein--met to talk frankly about regrets they have (or don't have) about college--what they wish they had read or had not read, listened to or not listened to, thought or not thought, been or not been. The idea for the discussions was prompted by a desire to give college students a directed guide, of some sort, to the world of literature, philosophy, and thought that they might not otherwise receive from the current highly specialized university environment. They were also an attempt to answer the "canon"-based approach to college study in two ways: by identifying canonical books produced by our contemporaries or near-contemporaries--something conservative writers have always refused to do--and, second, by articulating a better reason to read the best books ever written than that they authorize and underwrite a system of brutal economic competition and inequality.

What We Should Have Known: Two Discussions (Research Branch Pamphlet Series #2) (N+1 Research Branch Pamphlet)

Essays & Correspondence

Paper Monument is a twice-yearly print journal of contemporary arts, published in collaboration with n+1. It is edited by Dushko Petrovich and Roger White, and designed by Project Projects.

Paper Monument #2

Christopher Hsu

Naomi Fry

Roger White

Andrew Berardini

David Giles

Jen Schwarting

Jessica Slaven

Loretta Staples

Gregory Warner

Arts & Photography

Paper Monument Communication, LLC

Featuring analysis of MFA vs. NYC literary cultures, pro-life vs. animal rights politics, the failure of California, the politics of white victimization, American elitism, and how an Indian management guru made his money. Also featuring fiction by Mathias Enard and Sheila Heti and four responses to Jonathan Franzen's Freedom.

n+1 Issue 10: Self-Improvement

NIKIL SAVAL

Sheila Heti

Mathias Énard

Kristen Dombek

Richard Beck

Elizabeth Gumport

Bruce Robbins

Siddhartha, Deb

The definitive history of Pitchfork, a report from the Gathering of the Juggalos, Kristin Dombek (author of "The Two Cultures of Life" from Issue 10) on the surprising sweetness of The Book of Mormon, and an excerpt from Helen DeWitt's new novel, Lightning Rods. Plus Mark Greif on Stanley Cavell and Carla Blumenkranz on Gordon Lish and new fiction, poetry, and reviews.

n+1 Issue 12: Conversion Experience

Kristin Dombek

ChaD Harbach

Lawrence Jackson

Helen DeWitt

Kent Russell

Gideon Lewis-Kraus

Alexander Borinsky

Yitzhak Laor

Burn your degrees! Demand sex class action. Against big babies at home and imbeciles abroad. Yelena Akhtiorskaya panics in a suitcase.

n+1 Issue 14: Awkward Age

Dayna Tortorici

Yelena Akhtiorskaya

Andrew Jacobs

Christopher Glazek

Adriana Camarena

Charles Petersen

Nicholas Dames

Moira Weigel

Molly Fischer

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