Alexander Genis: Every day, bringing us closer to the two thousandth year, the intellectual stream of all kinds of calculations, tests and reasoning related to this date becomes more and more and more. The approach of the third millennium simply provokes us to stare at the path that a person has already done. Rarely, who likes this spectacle. With relief, escorting our gloomy eyelids, the misanthropes are afraid that the next century will be even worse.

I was sent from St. Petersburg a new and super -complete edition of the works and letters of Leonid Prevychina. Superfiguration because some texts are printed three times: the slightest discrepancy in several lines between publications, between the manuscript and primary publication - and they are completely squeezed, as an option. Demyanov’s ear, of course.

Alexander Genis: When the hundred best films of America were chosen under the survey of the US Institute of Cinematics, it turned out that only Spielberg was inferior to Hitchcock's paintings. The list included 4 of his tapes - “Window to the courtyard”, “Dizziness”, “north through the north -west” and “psychosis”. Hitchcock brought Hollywood Glory, which he failed to appreciate on time. The only "Oscar" received the director in the 79th year in terms of merit.

The author of Veronika Bode Vadim Abdrashitov: A very clear ear of the playwright Mindadze, a very accurate feather, a very complex and interesting drama, innovative ... Vladimir Dashkevich: Sasha is generally not much like her scripts. He is very good in the company, he is a wonderful friend, a very sensitive person, but he is such a simple, normal, pleasant, intelligent person. And a certain devilry always lives in his scenarios ...

Igor Pomerantsev: The word "freedom" is called sweet. The poet Paul Eleoar once fascinated repeated the line in verses: "I am writing your name - freedom." There is one more word that is repeated with a nominth rapture in the 20th century - independence. Talking about freedom from ..., about freedom for ... have become intellectual stamps, but much less we are talking about independence from someone or something and about independence for, for the sake.

Author Tatyana Voltskaya Samuel Lurie: There are things that I hate is censorship and state security. That's all my life, how much I live, I hate so much ... Tatyana Voltskaya: Samuel Lurie, writer, essayist, was born in 1942, lived all his life in St. Petersburg. The author of the novel "writer Pisarev", collections of the essay "Interpretation of Fate", "Talk in favor of the dead" and many articles, mainly about writers.

Alexander Genis: Today, the subject of the conversation will be the exhibition "Berlin Jews at the Jewish Museum of New York." As usual, first we will talk about the exposition, and then we will illustrate it with musical works related to the theme of the exhibition. Staging, and this was already a few years ago, the section "Pictures from the exhibition", Solomon Volkov and I proceeded from the fact that more than a hundred museums work in New York.

Recently, I devoted several of our programs to the problem of education. It hurts a lot about this in the year of the presidential election, when each candidate is in a hurry to declare himself a supporter of radical measures in the field of education. This is understandable: the question of a rational training system is the central for civilization, which connected its fate with progress.

Sergey Yuryenen: On our radio facility is the Israeli film. Arik Kaplun - "Friends of Yana". ( Scene from the film ) "Friends of Yana", Israel, year 1999. Grand Prix "Crystal Globe" of the 34th International Festival in Karlovy Vary. Script - arik caplun, Semyon Vinokur; Camera - Valentin Belonogov, installation - Tali Halter, Ainat Glazer -Tsarkin; Music - Avi Benjamin. Cast - Evlin Caplun, Nir Levy, Schmil Ben -Ari, Mosko Elkeli, Dalia Friedland, Lucy Dubinchik, Vladimir Friedman.

Two years ago, in one of these conversations, we first started talking about e -books. Today we will return to this topic in order to see how the situation unfolded, only declared at a time when e -books have just flickered on the horizons of the book market. It seemed to many that this ridiculous technical toy could not have a serious influence on our centuries -old habit - to read paper books.

In St. Petersburg, Zvezda magazine, a complete collected works and letters of Leonid Ivanovich Prebychin was released. This is a carefully done, scientific dignity work. The necessary foundation has been laid down for the study of a wonderful writer, finally recognized as one of the classics of Russian literature of the twentieth century. I would put him in a row with Platonov and Zoshchenko - not stylistically, but thematically.

In the journal New York Times Magazin of January 23, an article about Viktor Pelevin was published. The author of the article is Jeson Cowley, who interviewed the writer in Moscow and London. As always in the American press, a phrase is printed under the heading of the article in large -font, which should give a short summary of the entire plot.

On December 17, the Times Magazy Magzinsky, Matthew Brzezinsky, “back to the USSR” - about Belarus under the direction of Lukashenko, was published in New York. The author (I think, the son of the famous Zbignev Brzezinsky) was the Moscow correspondent of the newspaper Wall Street Jornal from 1996 to the 98th year. Next year, a book that summarizes his post -Soviet impressions will be released - under the name "Casino Moscow". It is clear that the article on Belarus says the most about Belarus.

Leading Ivan Tolstoy It is clear that at the end of the year the main subject of the situation of your apartment is the Christmas tree. Previously, she was called New Year's at home, now we are already used to calling her Christmas. And this means that she has to stand with us longer than the neighbors. If they throw the Christmas tree immediately after Christmas, then we will celebrate both Christmas and New Year, and even the old New Year - on January 13th, on the same tree.

Vasil Bykov: The pipe is understandable. The pipe becomes the main meaning of our meaningless existence ... in any case, the meaning of the functioning of the authorities is definitely. But what about a person who is a native of pipe places? What is a person with them? Sergey Yuryenen: Vasil Bykov. "Pipe". Pages of the story ... "Who will hear him? Perhaps no one, but he was tapping anyway. Because he was silent for too long. He was afraid. He was afraid. Even himself.