By farewell to the past and looking into the future, the new book of essays by Alexander Genis “Skin of Time” first of all records changes. Small and grandiose, they are all fateful, because they make today strikingly different from yesterday.

“The hardest thing is to recognize, hear, see, feel, notice, catch and pin the present to paper. In plain sight and precisely for this reason not always noticeable, it turns us into contemporaries and leaves marks on the skin. Like a tattoo.” (Alexander Genis)