"Podobnogo izdanii︠a︡ v Rossii ne bylo uzhe pochti devi︠a︡nosto let. Predydushchiĭ analog uvidel svet v dalekom 1930 godu v Izdatelʹstve pisateleĭ v Leningrade. V nem krupneĭshie pisateli toĭ ėpokhi rasskazyvali o vremeni, o literature i o sebe - o tom, "kak my pishem". Sredi avtorov byli Gorʹkiĭ, Al. Tolstoĭ, Belyĭ, Zoshchenko, Pilʹni︠a︡k, Lavrenëv, Tyni︠a︡nov, Shklovskiĭ i drugie znachimye v nasheĭ literature figury. Izdanie imelo oglushitelʹnyĭ uspekh. V nyneshniĭ sbornik voshli ocherki tridt︠s︡ati shesti sovremennykh avtorov, imena kotorykh po bolʹsheĭ chasti khorosho znakomy chitai︠u︡shcheĭ Rossii. V knige pod edinoĭ oblozhkoĭ soshlisʹ pisateli raznykh pokoleniĭ, raznykh mirovozzreniĭ, raznykh napravleniĭ i literaturnykh tradit︠s︡iĭ. Tem interesnee, chitatʹ ėtu knigu, uzhe po odnomu zamyslu svoemu obrechennui︠u︡ na povyshennoe chitatelʹskoe vnimanie."--Colophon. Articles of thirty-six modern Russian authors about literature, and time and about themselves.