"Summer camp: here’s how bad summer camp was." — Jim Shepard, "Courtesy for Beginners" (APS 4)
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https://apublicspace.org/maga…/detail/courtesy-for-beginners
From Kimberly Grey’s “What’s Happening” (APS 20)
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Kimberly Grey's first book, The Opposite of Light, was awarded the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and will be published by Persea Books in 2016. She teaches creative writing at Stanford University.
Tonight (7/13) at Community Bookstore: a book party for Joshua Cohen's Moving Kings.
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http://www.communitybookstore.net/…/book-party-joshua-cohen…
From "Not That, Disappointment" by Jennifer Mosley (APS 10)
https://apublicspace.org/mag…/detail/not-that-disappointment
"Ruminating on American tourism posters—apple orchards in New England, porch swings down South, cowboys out West—[Finn Murphy] writes, 'If a tourist poster of America were made with some verisimilitude, it would show a Subway franchise inside a convenience-store gas station with an under-paid immigrant mopping the floor and a street person at the traffic light holding a cardboard sign that reads anything helps.'"
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Joshua Rotham of The New Yorker on The Long Haul: A Trucker’s Tales of Life on the Road by Finn Murphy
We're using "The Great Second-Half 2017 Book Preview" from The Millions to build out our reading list for the rest of the year.
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We're thrilled to find amongst those listed, several APS contributors, including: Marie NDiaye, Samantha Hunt, Jesmyn Ward, Gordon Lish, and Daniel Alarcón.
Woot woot! Our managing editor Megan Cummins has a new story up at Joyland Magazine.
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"The child was still growing inside me, a beautiful doomed thing, during my days with the driver. Maybe that’s why I still think of him so much." — Megan Cummins, "Q&A"
Happy publication day to APS contributor Marie NDiaye's My Heart Hemmed In (from The Center for the Art of Translation and translated from the French by Jordan Stump).
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Marie DNaye is the recipient of the Prix Femina and the Prix Goncourt, the latter being the highest honor a French writer can receive. One of ten finalists for the 2013 International Booker Prize, alongside Lydia Davis and Marilynne Robinson, she is the author of over a dozen plays and works of prose.
"The American public seems to me to be readers of fiction who’ve misapplied literary reading techniques to the public sphere."
— Joshua Cohen (author of Moving Kings, out today).
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Our assistant editor Zachariah Webb in conversation with Joshua Cohen.
From "Heading Home" by Anzhelina Polonskaya (APS 25)
(Translated from the Russian by Andrew Wachtel)
From “American Lawn” by Jessica Francis Kane (APS 17), made available to non-subscribers for a short period of time. Read it here: https://apublicspace.org/magazine/detail/american-lawn
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Jessica Francis Kane is the author of the novel The Report and the short story collection This Close (both from Graywolf Press). Her stories have been presented on BBC Radio 4 and published many places, including Virginia Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, McSweeney’s, The Yale Review, Narrative, and Granta. Her essays and humor pieces have appeared in Salon, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and The Morning News, where she is a contributing writer.
"That’s the thing about oppressions. Some of them are permanent and some of them are not. And yet, many of them are highly visible: gender, race and ethnicity, body size, disability. The visibly queer body is always treated as spectacle. For fat bodies, it can be quite a challenge to deal with both the systemic issues and the cultural issues, and to have people projecting narratives onto your body from the moment you leave your house until the moment you return. People see you, and all of a sudden they’re medical experts." — APS Contributor Roxane Gay in conversation with Carmen Maria Machado at Guernica.
"We settle here; but the ghosts of history, the oppressions, migrations, escapes, re-rootings, re-routings, betrayals and unlikely solidarities that occurred and do recur in our warring species, pop out and jangle us" — Vahni Capildeo, "Everywhere and Nowhere," via The White Review.
A Public Space shared an event.
Tonight, tonight at Molasses Books: Another Way to Say, a reading series of work in translation, featuring Rachael Small, Julia Guez, & Samantha Zighelboim.
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You can be sure we'll be there. It's one of the recurring events we most look forward to.
From "Altered Proverbs" by Suzanne Buffam (APS 17). Read the rest here: https://apublicspace.org/magazine/detail/altered-proverbs
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Suzanne Buffam was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She's the author of three collections of poetry, A Pillow Book (Canarium Books 2016), The Irrationalist (Canarium Books, 2010), which was shortlisted for the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize and Past Imperfect (House of Anansi Press, 2005), which won the Gerald Lampert Award.
