What We Should Have Known: Two Discussions

”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.

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.