Running Line

"News. They are everywhere. I don’t mean news-news, but 'news' as a special fleeting genre of flawed, yet in its own way significant, rhetoric." The new book by Lev Rubinstein is both a confession of love for news headlines and... an attempt to understand the peculiar poetics of their structure. Collecting a collection of small masterpieces of this genre, the author accompanies them with comments, where memories intertwine with reflections on today's historical reality. At the core of this composition lies a paradox: news headlines, usually reduced to their practical function, suddenly become accumulators of unexpected meanings and significances, layering over each other and transforming informational noise into poetry. Lev Rubinstein is a poet, prose writer, and essayist, one of the founders and leaders of Moscow conceptualism. Winner of the Andrei Bely Prize, the "Liberty" prize, and the "Nose" prize. Author of the books "Chasing the Hat and Other Texts," "Cemetery with Wi-Fi," "A Whole Year. My Calendar," published by the "NLO" publishing house, among others.