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...they did it. Bridie J. Clark ’99, author of “Because She Can”; Simon H. Rich ’06-’07, author of “Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations”; and Keith A. Gessen ’97, one of the founding editors of the print journal “n+1,” sat down with FM and confirmed that our degrees are, in fact, useless. But don’t worry! Read on to learn how to turn your $160,000 diploma into...
...Keith Gessen: As an undergrad, I didn’t entirely like any of the publications at Harvard so I wrote a little bit for FM and the Advocate but I didn’t join any of them. I tried out for the Lampoon and I didn’t get in. I didn’t get a great sense from Harvard about what being a writer would be like. My parents were Russian immigrants so I knew what a Russian writer would be like and how a Russian writer lives, which is sort of like...
...part of a week-long tour of greater New England.LETTING IT ALL OUT“I think we want to actually meet our readers,” says Mark J. Greif ’97, one of the founders and current editors of the journal.Greif, along with Keith A. Gessen ’97, Benjamin O. Kunkel ’96 and Marco Roth published the first issue of n+1 in the fall of 2004, (though an earlier Kinko’s-printed, hand-stapled prototype was technically the first manifestation of the journal) with the hope of addressing...