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An independent nonprofit publisher of a literary and arts magazine, and A Public Space Books.

02/02/2023

APS Together, A Public Space's virtual book-club series, is now on Substack. Sign up for the APS Together Substack to read along with us. Starting Tuesday, February 21, we're reading THE BETROTHED by Alessandro Manzoni, with Michael F. Moore, whose acclaimed translation of the novel was hailed as "a landmark literary occasion" when it was published by the Modern Library last year.

Join us: https://apstogether.substack.com/

10/20/2021

“While holed up doing interviews on Tuesday, Roberts confessed she had managed to buy enough on a single shopping excursion to warrant extra luggage for cashmere sweaters and cotton tote bags from concept store Merci, coffee from Verlet, and books from Shakespeare and Company and W.H. Smith, where Roberts scored “W-3: A Memoir” by Bette Howland that she can’t put down.“

Actress and Belletrist founder Emma Roberts is reading W-3: A MEMOIR! To read along with her, order here: bit.ly/3nay1OO

The American actress swept into the French capital for a dinner in her honor.

08/30/2021

04/26/2021

We are encouraged to see craft as external, a set of learned artistic tools, but the strongest works of literature are unmistakably connected to an ability to visualize our "inner craft”—a technique that brings our writing closest to our own unique and energizing art.

April 29, join the longtime director of Northwestern University's creative-writing program, Reginald Gibbons, for a rejuvenating Master Class.

We will discuss examples and explore how writers draw from what they live, from the culture in which they are formed, from language itself. Together, we will examine ways to refine our “inner craft” and practice methods to deepen our connections to our own inner resources. Enroll Here: https://bit.ly/3tTtBhp

03/22/2021

Tonight, 3/22 at 6 pm CDT. Join us for a celebration of the life and work of the late Bette Howland with the Chicago Public Library! Appearing in a panel discussion on Bette's life will be APS Editor Brigid Hughes, Peter Orner and Laura Adamczyk. Hope to virtually see you there!

Join us for a celebration of the life and work of the late Bette Howland, on the occasion of the release her memoir W-3. Appearing in a panel discussion on Bette's life will be Bridget Hughes, Peter Orner and Laura Adamczyk. Brigid Hughes is the founding editor of A Public Space and A Public Space B...

03/15/2021

I’ve always loved books—as simple pastimes, mechanisms for self-expression, endlessly generative fields of study—and I’ve always wanted to have a hand in that essential work.
—Miguel Coronado

We are delighted to announce Miguel Coronado as the 2021 A Public Space Editorial Fellow. This March, he joins A Public Space for a nine-month fellowship. To learn more about this year's Editorial Fellowship read below!

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03/03/2021

Happy Publication Day to Friederike Mayröcker's THE COMMUNICATING VESSELS, translated by Alexander Booth.

We're thrilled to share this important work and beautiful translation with the world at long last. Copies are available now 📚

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07/07/2020

, ideal readers, how the Indies differ from the Big 5... Thank you Jeremy Ellis and MPIBA for this chance to talk about A Public Space Books!

"Nora Ephron meets Lorrie Moore"—Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, the stories of Bette Howland! Now in paperback.
More info about the book here: https://www.edelweiss.plus/ =0998267554&page=1

Read the MPIBA Q&A with A Public Space here: https://www.mountainsplains.org/2020/07/discover-a-public-space/

06/03/2020

“I’ve always been obsessed with stories about failure — myths, folklore, epics, and tragedies —and how these genres think about the fall of man.” For 28.5, editorial fellow, Taylor Michael (), shares "Rat Ship" by Ernst Weiss (tr. Joel Rotenberg). Link in Bio.

06/01/2020

“It was impossible to take bread and clothing from hungry and much-needed soldiers in order to give it to the not harmful, not hated, not guilty, but simply unneeded French.”

Indifference kills. —Yiyun

05/31/2020

“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily”—La Rochefoucauld’s words ring true, and these chapters after Andrei’s death and Petya’s death hurt one’s mental retina. —Yiyun

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“[Fulton Mall] works on the smallest connections, and if you follow the metaphor of a river, then these little places are the nourishing wetlands along the banks, where the sedges and reeds grow, where the smallest fish spawn and grow before entering the larger sea or the ocean...It thrives on a quietness that is, ironically, created by this day-to-day hurly-burly, the wash of this great tide of people” – Robert Sullivan, “Street Life: The Invisible Ecology of Cities” (APS 19) . Gus Powell, Jay Street, Fulton Mall, 2009 . Gus Powell's photographs have been published in Aperture, Harpers, Vogue, M le mag – Le Monde, Wired, Fortune and W, and he has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine for a decade. He is a member of the street photographers’ collective In-Public and is faculty in the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts, NY. His work is included in the books Bystander: A World History of Street Photography and Street Photography Now.

Happy Pub Day, Karate Chop!! We're so thrilled to announce the first A Public Space Book published with Graywolf Press by the amazing Dorthe Nors. Pick up a copy at one of our favorite bookstores—BookCourt, Greenlight Bookstore, and WORD Brooklyn.