The author of the prose books “Naked People”, “Skunk Camera”, “Autumn in Pockets” in this collection appears in a different form - as a philologist, a brilliant essayist. Ten “reading experiences” of English and American literature immerse you in the world of Salinger, Updike, Henry Miller, Faulkner, Golding... Andrey Astvatsaturov reveals little-known details of the authors’ biography, offers fragments of texts in the original, immediately gives a translation, masterfully analyzes the details, showing what exactly makes the writer a world classic.