by Calypso | Feb 19, 2011 | Calypso Close-Ups, Fiction, Review, Short Fiction, Tolstoy, Translation
Rachel Hurn, writer for the The New Yorker’s feature, The Book Bench, attends the launch party for Calypso Editions’ inaugural title and discusses the book: I’d never read Tolstoy’s parable before hearing it read aloud at Pacific Standard (by...
by Calypso | Feb 17, 2011 | News, Tolstoy
Michael Potemra in a Feb. 15 post on National Review Online discusses our new translation of Tolstoy’s How Much Land Does a Man Need: Joyce called it “the greatest story the literature of the world knows”; it has been one of my own favorites from boyhood until...
by Calypso | Feb 5, 2011 | Review, Tolstoy
Thanks to Mel of The Reading Life for his Feb. 4 review of our new translation of Tolstoy’s How Much Land Does a Man Need. Here’s a few highlights from the review: When I read the mission statement of Calypso Publishing I was reminded somehow of Virginia...
by Calypso | Jan 30, 2011 | News, Tolstoy
The University of California—Los Angeles bookstore ordered a batch of the Boris Dralyuk translation of Tolstoy’s How Much Land Does a Man Need, the first printing of our first book. And here they are! It’s great to see that our bilingual edition will be...
by Calypso | Jan 27, 2011 | Reading, Tolstoy, Translation
Our indefatigable founding member Bryan Patrick Miller, editor of Boris Dralyuk’s translation of How Much Land Does a Man Need, has been hitting the New York streets in preparation for a very special event on Feb. 10: The launch of both Calypso as a new literary...
by Calypso | Dec 26, 2010 | Calypso Close-Ups, Fiction, Review, Tolstoy, Translation
“It is hard to imagine any of the large publishers devoting this much time and space to a single short story, so we should be grateful to Calypso, a new press run collaboratively by writer and translators, for this excellent edition of a small but important...
