About the forgotten book of the literary critic Boris Griftsov Disputes about what a novel is, what is the essence and what are the boundaries of this genre, have been underway for many decades and still have not subsided. The literary critic Boris Griftsov, author of the book Theory of Roman, did not arouse his answer to these questions, rather original, who did not cause much interest at that time or later.

Excerpt from the book of children's memoirs by the granddaughter of Leonid Andreev On September 1, 1939, a nine -year -old girl Olya from a family of Russian emigrants came with her brother and mother to relax on the island near the Atlantic coast of France. Here, in the French outback, they will spend five and a half years about which the artist, journalist, translator Olga Andreeva-Karound will write curious memoirs.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" The House of Creativity in Peredelkino has begun accepting applications for residences for writers, translators and literary researchers. This was reported in a press release sent to the editorial office of Gorky.

Roman Korolev - about the book of Andrei Yakovlev "Land of waste" The publishing house of Individuum published a book by journalist Andrei Yakovlev “Waste Country”: a large -scale study of everything that is happening with garbage in Russia, and a story about people whose life is directly connected with it - those who collect recyclables, fights for closing landfills or exploring them.

From the book “Venice. History of water and land" In Moscow on April 20, the long list of the 16th season of the National Literary Award “Big Book” was announced. It included 41 works, according to a press release received by the editors of Gorky. The long list of the prize consists of the following works: Abgaryan Narine. “Simon” (AST, 2020) Aleshkovsky Peter. “Secrets” (Edited by Elena Shubina, 2020) Bavilsky Dmitry. “The desire to be a city” (New Literary Review, 2020) Basinsky Pavel.