User:Longenoughlever/Gessen

article reads, "His first novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men, was published in April 2008 and received generally negative reviews."

Joyce Carol Oates wrote that "In this debut novel there is much that is charming and beguiling, and much promise," and Jonathan Franzen has said of Gessen, "It's so delicious the way he writes. I like it a lot;" New York Magazine, on the other hand, called it "self-satisfied, boringly solipsistic."

Andrew O'Hagan, writing in the International Herald Tribune, called Gessen "not only a capable observer but a natural novelist."