Complex sentence: Gessen graduated from Harvard College and earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 2004 and has written about books for magazines including "Dissent", "Slate", and "New York", where he was the regular book critic.
Split into simpler sentences: Gessen graduated from Harvard College and earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 2004. Gessen has also written about books for magazines including "Dissent", "Slate", and "New York", where he was the regular book critic.