So, Ilf and Petrov met while working on a newspaper for railway workers, which is intriguing to me. For starters, where's the podcastresses' newspaper, and why have I not been invited to participate? My life's literary collaborator could be waiting there, slinging ink on the audio coding equivalent to pieces on socialism and coal hauling, and if he or she is really someone destined to be -my- collaborator, well, patience is surely running out. Maybe it's just that I'm pretty sure I'd feel right at home in pre-war Soviet Russia. And, ehh, I don't mean that in any sort of nationalistic way. I mean, if Ilf and Petrov managed...