Boris Nosik is known primarily for his works on Akhmatova, Modigliani, Nabokov and Schweitzer, excellent translations of English-speaking writers. In this book, he appears as a prose writer - subtle, ironic and sad, with his own easily recognizable, and unlike anyone else. "Strictly speaking, the editorial staff did not have any such special need to wash the new apartment of photographer Gena Burylin. Joint editorial drinking often, even, one might say, quite regularly took place right there, in the premises of the editorial office itself (a system of partial and complete disguise was even developed, as well as a state of siege in case of the arrival of a large boss) - drinking in connection with the delivery of the issue, with the receipt, with the arrival of the author, who wanted to treat the editor, and in addition, small editorial celebrations about birthdays, name days, folk and revolutionary holidays. Drinking occurred naturally, at ease, everything happened right there, on the spot, so that one could stay an hour or two after work, and not drag into this very Yasenevo-Biryulyovo-Borisovo somewhere at the end of the world - either Moscow or Tula..."