Had the pleasure to sit next to Keith at a recent New York Rangers game at Madison Square Garden. He was working on an article about the Blueshirts for New York magazine...

Occupation:  Author of the forthcoming in April 'All the Sad Young Literary Men' and editor-in-chief of n+1 magazine (twice-yearly about literature, politics and culture). Has written about books for Dissent, Slate and New York. Dubbed the "Literary heart-throb" by gawker.com.

DOB: January 9, 1975  In: Moscow, Russia

Hobbies/Interests:  "I play football and hockey."

Favorite Movie:  "There's a Russian movie called Autumn Marathon - great movie.

Favorite TV Show:  "Simpsons."

Musical Tastes:  "Radiohead."

First Job:  "Hmm, I can't remember...I guess I was a camp counselor for kids in Boston."

First Car:  "An '86 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera. (Color?) Purple [smiles]."

Favorite Meal: "Borscht."

Favorite Breakfast Cereal:  "I never, I don't eat cereal."

Favorite Ice Cream Flavor:  "Chocolate chip."

Early Career Memory:  "I reviewed Ken Kalfus's PS 239 - it was a book of stories - and I knew him a little bit and he wrote me an e-mail and he said, That was a real nice review and my publishers are very happy too. And I was like, I think I was too nice. And he's like, No, you called one of my stories gratuitous... You asshole [laughs]!"

Greatest Career Moment:  "I wrote a review of Martin Amis for the Nation. And then I saw Vivian Gornick at a party. And she said: "You wrote that review of Martin Amis? I loved that." And she put her hand on my arm."

Most Painful Moment:  "Uuhh. I wrote a review about (VS) Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize a couple of years ago. But the new book wasn't very good. And I said it wasn't very good. And somebody e-mailed and I mixed up - one guy's name was Peter and the other guy's name was Richard. And I mixed up the names and my editor's like, I think we need to run a correction [smiles]. Because you mixed up the names."

Favorite Vacation Spot:  "Cape Cod."

Favorite Writers:  "Oh. Don Delillo. Gogel. I love Gogel. And Michel Houellebecq, the Frenchman."

Childhood Dream:  "I wanted to be Dostoevsky. Yeah."

People Qualities Most Admired:  "I guess, you live in New York, the wrong time and people are sometimes lying to you, like, I love what you wrote, your thing that you wrote, so great. So, honesty. Honesty because people are full of shit [laughs]."

Education: Harvard (History and Literature), MFA Syracuse.