Heroines of Wonderzine talk about favorite books
Throughout the year we asked Journalists, writers, scholars, curators and other heroines about their literary preferences and publications that occupy an important place in their bookcase. Today we share the best editions of the "Bookshelf" column - and offer to reflect on the list of references for the rest of the holidays.
Galina Yuzefovich
literary critic
I can read best, this is my only superpower
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Anna Narinskaya
book critic
I love a lot of books not for what is written in them, but for memories of how I read them and what they did to me
Ksenia Christmas
FILM CREDIT
Literature is the most striking thing that was created by man. Absolutely unnecessary thing, canceling time, space, body
Maria Stepanova
poet
I, as a man of the old formation, read voraciously, in hundreds of pages, this is how my daily diet works
Linor Goralik
POET
The verse is arranged in such a way that it is impossible to change a syllable in it without the whole text falling apart, and if you can change it means that I didn’t write it well
Varvara Babitskaya
literary critic
Any library is a full-scale model of literature.
Irina Prokhorova
publisher
The inaccessibility of high-quality knowledge for an ordinary person of the Soviet era pushed me to choose a profession
Anna Nemzer
chief editor of the TV channel "Rain"
The “cliff” at the age of thirteen taught me to rebuild boundaries and once and for all solved the issues related to gender
Dasha Sargsyan
medical journalist
Fiction has never changed anything in my life
Elena Kostyuchenko
special correspondent for "Novaya Gazeta"
We cannot see the world through the eyes of another person, but literature helps to get closer to it. You can get into the head to the dead - wow
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