Never before published stories, essays and diaries of Vasily Aksenov from the writer's American archive are published for the first time under one cover, accompanied by brilliant comments from Aksenov's longtime friends and colleagues - writers Anatoly Gladilin and Viktor Esipov. The title of this new book was given by the story of the same name, dedicated to Bulat Okudzhava, but in the book the reader will find Bella Akhmadulina, Bill Clinton, and even J.D. Salinger. In the new collection, Aksenov appears as a true citizen of the world, who is interested in clear realism, oberiutism, and postmodernism. (Story from the novel "Men's Club") (story from the novel "Men's Club") (story without a single word of his own) (Story about Moscow winter) Blitz interview (Tvardovsky Phenomenon) (Speech at Spaso House, November 1989) (Moscow diary, summer 1992) (Essay on post-post-Byronism)