Longing for a kind of “slice of the era.” What do today’s writers write about, think about, feel? A Petersburg intellectual in the throes of pork therapy; a first-time mother in the image of a sprat; a bully in a Chechen village; an азартний young man dreaming of casha; a librarian looking for a beautiful death; a Finnish husband who found a new life; a fashionable writer at the peak of popularity, and other characters…
We helped make it happen, doing the intended work for us was the editor-in-chief of the literary journal “Zinzyver,” a member of the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Shpakov, who tirelessly selected stories, while we carried out our ruthless selection of them.