For many years, the famous writer, the first laureate of the Russian Booker literary prize (1992), Mark Kharitonov recorded everyday observations, thoughts, conversations, literary and other impressions with shorthand badges. Over time, there was a desire to decipher at least some of these records. "You have actually met wonderful people," the author writes. - You witnessed events that have already gone down in history. Whatever you saw or experienced - you saw it differently from others, and comprehended it in your own way." In 2002, Mark Kharitonov's book "Shorthand of the End of the Century" appeared, which included notes made by the author in 1975-1979, in 2011 his book "Shorthand of the Beginning of the Century" was published, which included records from 2000-2009. "Shorthand of the New Time" contains Mark Kharitonov's diary notes of 2010-2016 mainly on literary topics. But, of course, no conversation about literature is possible without talking about time, about the most diverse manifestations of our lives.