A review by abroadwell
All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen

2.0

About the lives of three 20ish grad students on the East Coast. --mostly NYC. (if you have a low opinion of Syracuse, you might find the description of life there amusing.). I could identify with the trouble in finishing a dissertation; this is a universal of grad student life. But I couldn't identify with these students, who are all heterosexual former athletes pining after women and spending their free time lifting weights. I've never known any grad students at all like this.

And they don't really do anything either, they just spent time agonizing over what they ought to do. Should I be with this hot girl or that hot girl? Should I spent time withe Prof X or Prof. Y?

Feh...