Description:
"I read What We Should Have Known in one sitting and loved it."--Christopher Frizelle, The Stranger
Eleven n+1 editors and contributors talk frankly about the regrets they have (or don't have) about college.
The second entry in the small books series, published in 2007. Eleven n+1 editors and contributors--Ilya Bernstein, Kate Bolick, Caleb Crain, Rebecca Curtis, Siddhartha Deb, Meghan Falvey, Keith Gessen, Mark Greif, Chad Harbach, Benjamin Kunkel, and Marco Roth--talk frankly about regrets they have (or don't have) about college--what they wish they had read or not read, listened to or not listened to, thought or not thought, been or not been.
Brief description: Keith Gessen is a founding editor of n+1 and a contributor to The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and the London Review of Books. He is the editor of three nonfiction books and the translator or co-translator, from Russian, of a collection of short stories, a book of poems, and a work of oral history. He is also the author of two novels, All the Sad Young Literary Men and A Terrible Country, as well as a book of essays, Raising Raffi.
Review Quotes: "Charming. . . .Some hilarious, brilliant moments, particularly striking for those of us who've seriously questioned the utility of our liberal arts eductions."--Utne