This collection is the result of a 15-year dialogue between the writer Alexei Ivanov and his readers. At first it was correspondence in questions and answers, then it outgrew the network format and turned into a multilateral analysis of our lives and processes taking place in politics, economics, journalism, culture and writing. One of the most famous and vivid prose writers of our time, who released the documentary "The Ridge of Russia" on Channel One in 2010 together with Leonid Parfenov, the author of the filmed novel "The Geographer Drank the Globe," the bestsellers "Tobol," "Pishcheblok," "Heart of Parma" and many others, very seriously approaches the conversation with his many readers.