About the book: 2024 / The book of the non-fiction master Alexander Genis is selected travel prose with secret inclusions of lyrics. This volume offers a special - the author's - set of genres: stories rather than essays, sketches rather than advice, and dialogues wherever possible. Objecting to the borrowed scholarship of Wikipedia, Genis's travelogues describe those fragments of world landscapes that are stored in a memoir safe. Not what the author saw, but what he took with him - a view, a replica, a dish, an exhibit or a quote that has finally found its place and home.