Memories of Viktor Ardov about Mayakovsky, Osip and Lilya Brik On December 20, 1967, Viktor Duvakin recorded a conversation with Viktor Efimovich Ardov, satirist, author of “New Satyricon” and “Crocodile”. Gorky publishes a fragment from it dedicated to Mayakovsky, Osip Brik and the Red Pepper magazine. (1st track) Getting to know Mayakovsky V.A. : I met Mayakovsky in the satirical magazine “Red Pepper”. It began publication in 1923. I was soon invited there... V.D.

Best on the literary Internet: 12 most interesting links of the week Every Friday, the poet and critic Leo Oborin preferentially collects all the most interesting, in his opinion, which was written for the past period about books and literature on the network. Today are links for the third week of February. 1. The film "Sasha Sokolov. The last Russian writer ”, shown on the first channel on February 10, caused many responses.

How animals enhance the library experience At the end of January, a Parisian woman was fined for leaving a book she had read near a bookstore, France Bleu radio reports . She explained her action by saying that there was no bookcrossing shelf in the store, but she wanted someone else to read the book. The police detained the woman and fined her 68 euros for dumping garbage in a public place.

Poet and musician about anarchy, youth and loneliness February 19 - the day of the death of Yegor Letov. Gorky compiled the alphabet of the “civil defense”: we collected Letov’s statements about the anarchy, riot, war, revolution, communism and other phenomena important to him. A - anarchy Anarchy is such a world order that is only for one. Two is already too much, ugly. Anarchy is only for one. And, apparently ... Everyone around is sadly proves that one and one is already too fat.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The Munich-based literary agency Wiedling Literary has refused to “actively represent” the rights of Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin on the international market. Kommersant writes about this.

How animals enhance the library experience English writer Neil Gaiman announced work on a new book, writes The Guardian. This will be a continuation of the novel Neverwhere (in the Russian translation, “The Outside” or “Never”), published in 1996. Neverwhere is the book version of the series of the same name, for which Gaiman wrote the script.