A mere selection of Russian authors who can be heard and seen online: Prigov, Danylov, Pavlova, Sorokin, GoralikI distinctly recall buying my first literary audiorecording: two cassette tapes on which Venedikt Erofeev read his Moskva-Petushki. Listening to Erofeev - slightly mumbling, or asking for 'one more' drink in between - was an unquestioned, and unfamiliar, delight. With the WWW, hearing and seeing authors is an equally attractive, but less unaccustomed experience. A little see-and-hear-Russian-writers-online list:* Invaluable, incomparable, moving-image-ridden YouTube. Have you already tried entering your favourite author's name to see what comes out? Googling my own 'research babies,' I stumbled upon a whole series of performances by Dmitrii Prigov (here, here, or here, for instance). The same thing goes for Google or Yandex, of course: enter a writer's name, opt for 'video,' press play, et voila. * Writers' blogs. Vodennikov, Grishkovets, Tolstaia: Russian writers and poets avidly include videos of themselves in their weblogs. Tolstaia links you to recordings of her own talkshow; Grishkovets posts music videos of his band Bigoudi. * www.polit.ru: with the series Poets Read their Poems (Poety Chitauit Svoi Stikhi), polit offers a plethora of live-reading videos by Russian, Ukrainian and White-Russian poets - think Vera Pavlova, Danila Davydov, Iurii Gugolev, and many, many more names.* www.litkarta.ru. Providing a similar audiovisual collection, litkarta - an abbreviation for 'Literary Map' - works slightly differently. You track writers on an interactive map. A click on their names takes you to a biography and, if you're lucky, audio/video files with live readings. Surf here for an mp3 of Anton Kolobianin from Perm, for instance, or here to hear Elena Kruglova from Khabarovsk read a poem.* And finally, www.openspace.ru, the Russian-culture portal which eagerly experiments with online reporting. In the Stikhi vzhivuiu (Poems Live) series, Shish Brianskii, Linor Goralik, and thirty-six other poets read - in an austere setting, in front of a camera that zooms in on their upper body or face only - one poem by themselves, one by a beloved colleague. In Velikany (Giants), influential cultural figures are interviewed, mostly in private surroundings, about "themselves and their work." Lovingly crafted 3-5 minute videos grant viewers a peep in Andrei Monastyrskii's apartment, for instance, or Vladimir Sorokin's home, garden, and (copulating) dogs.Some of these examples are relatively conventional: we knew audiorecordings of writers long before the digital-media age, for one. But the projects mentioned do utilize options that are exclusive to online culture, whether by mapping authors on an interactive map; by providing 'search' functions; or by allowing users to easily browse from one audiovisual file to another. They face us with a novel type of literary performance and invite new modes of literary consumption. I am not sure yet how to describe the difference between, say, traveling from an author's voice from Perm to one from Khabarovsk with a few mouse clicks, or watching the same authors on a DVD recording. But that YouTube, litkarta and their likes make me engage with writers' public performances in a new way - that is beyond doubt.ERNB Did I overlook any valuable audiovisual online RuLit sources? I would be happy to expand the list.