Alexey Polyarinov writes prose (the novel “Center of Gravity” was published in 2018), translates texts by David Foster Wallace and writes notes about his favorite writers, which are collected in this book. Stephen King, Philip K. Dick, Don DeLillo and his other heroes appear in it not as reading icons, but as living people who are united by the ability to juggle genres and remove barriers between “high” and “low” literature.