Life Stories: anthology to benefit hospice care in Russia

mbs — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:41:16 +0000

Russian Life, in collaboration with the Russian Arts Foundation, Vera Hospice Fund, and the Galina Dursthoff Literary Agency, has published Life Stories, a short story collection of works by nineteen of Russia’s most acclaimed contemporary authors, translated by fourteen prominent American and British translators, including my translation of "The Storm," by Leonid Yuzefovich.

“This is a truly non-profit collaboration between cultures,” said Publisher Paul E. Richardson. “Russian authors have donated their works, American translators, designers and editors all worked pro bono, and books will be sold worldwide directly to consumers, using the power of the internet and digital publishing to ensure that the maximum return gets back to Vera Hospice Fund. Readers will receive some truly great works of modern Russian literature and at the same time help provide end-of-life care for countless fellow human beings.”

100 percent of the profits from book sales will be donated to the Vera Hospice Fund, a Russian not-for-profit enterprise dedicated to supporting hospice care. Click here to purchase Life Stories.

Tango with Cows

mbs — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:16:48 +0000

If you’re in Los Angeles, don’t miss the Getty Center’s current exhibition, "Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910-1917," a jewel of an exhibit with graphics and poetry by some of the best artists and poets of the day–Larionov, Rozanova, Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh, to name a few. (See, for example, the cover at left, Portrait of Akhmet, Mikhail Larionov, in Worldbackwords (Mirskontsa), 1912.) To see how the Getty has brought together many of the images and audio and visual components of the exhibit, click here.

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Life Stories: anthology to benefit hospice care in Russia

Tango with Cows