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Three Percent #13: Literary Journals, Why We Don't Read Short Stories, and the $%#@ing Brewers
For this week’s podcast, Tom and I answered our first mailbag question about literary journals, discussed the old adage that “short stories don’t sell,” and complained about the unbeatable Milwaukee Brewers. (We also talk a bit about my son’s obsession with all 19 seasons of the Mighty Morphin ...
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Monkey Business [APS's Japanese Expansion]
A Public Space has always been dedicated to promoting international literature, so it’s not all that surprising that Brigid Hughes has joined forces with Roland Kelts (author of Japanamerica), Ted Goossen (professor of Japanese lit) and Motoyuki Shibata (translator into Japanese of Pynchon [!] and a number of other ...
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A Public Space: Issue 6
The new issue of A Public Space arrived a couple days ago and, as always, is filled with interesting pieces. I think it’s pretty cool that “All Foreigners Beep” from Dubravka Ugresic’s new collection Nobody’s Home leads off the issue, especially since this is one of the funniest pieces in the ...
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A Public Space #5
The new issue of A Public Space is just out . . . Actually, it’s shipping next week, so it may not technically be “out” just yet . . . Anyway, it looks to be another fine issue with fiction from Mario Bellatin (whose books can be a bit disturbing in a subtle, eerie way, such as in Beauty Salon), an essay by ...
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A Public Space, Issue 4
Thanks to Milkweed’s Emily Cook (currently subbing for Jessa over at Bookslut) for pointing out that excerpts from the forthcoming issue of A Public Space are now available online. A Public Space continues to impress with pieces in the new issue from William T. Vollmann, Samantha Hunt, Bernadette Mayer, and a Letter ...
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