Diary of a very bad year is a somewhat odd book and in many ways not really a book at all its a series of interviews conducted by keith gessen founder and editor of n 1 a literary magazine with the aforementioned hedge fund manager beginning in september of 2007 and ending in august of 2009. Diary of a very bad year confessions of an anonymous hedge fund manager anonymous hedge fund manager n 1 gessen keith on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers diary of a very bad year confessions of an anonymous hedge fund manager. Diary of a very bad year paperback a first book by the creators of the popular website and semi annual print journal features provocative interviews. Diary of a bad year is a book by south african born nobel laureate j m coetzeeit was released by text publishing in australia on 3 september 2007 in the united kingdom by harvill secker an imprint of random house on 6 september and in the united states on 27 december