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The 2018 Public Space Fellowships
News • September 8, 2017
We are pleased to announce that applications will open on September 15 for the 2018 Public Space Fellowships.
An Aesthetic Meeting of Minds
July 20, 2017
A conversation on editing with Emerging Writer Fellow Jai Chakrabarti and his mentors, Mary-Beth Hughes and Elizabeth Gaffney.
The 2017 Emerging Writer Fellows
February 15, 2017
We are pleased to announce our 2017 Emerging Writer Fellows.
The 2017 APS Emerging Writer Fellowships
September 22, 2016
We are pleased to announce that applications will open on October 1 for our 2017 Emerging Writer Fellowships.
There Will Never Be Another Person Like Jim Again
News • Yiyun Li • August 12, 2016
The first year I taught freshman rhetoric at Iowa, a young woman announced at the beginning of the semester that she was from a Catholic, white supremacist background.
On “A Lucky Man” by Jamel Brinkley
APS Classic • Victor LaValle • July 15, 2016
These stories deal in large-scale deceit and betrayal, there are painful things at work in this fiction, but much like the scene I described above, Jamel Brinkley regularly finds ways to pierce through the dramatic and find the subtle and humane lurking within.
On “Yes” by Elizabeth Gaffney
APS Classic • Sasha Saben Callaghan • June 2, 2016
I began reading Elizabeth Gaffney’s short story with a wince of parental recognition. Pets are hell, and having to explain their traumatic demise to a small, tear-stained child usually leads to an existential crisis, followed by the dubious consolation of hunting down some equally doomed replacement.
Days
Good Books • Dorthe Nors • May 20, 2016
In celebration of the forthcoming publication of So Much for That Winter by Dorthe Nors, the next A Public Space Book with Graywolf Press, we're excited to share this excerpt from "Days," one of the two novellas in the collection.
Wayfaring
Diary • Robert Sullivan • May 4, 2016
In which a small group—poet, historian, and reporter—search for the last two words missing after a five-year search for all of the words in the Langston Hughes poem “Island.”
On the Fictional Self: An Interview with Sara Majka
Dialogue • A. N. Devers • February 16, 2016
A. N. Devers talks with debut author Sara Majka about the Wu-Tang Clan, Alice Munro, and the intimacy of fiction. Cities I’ve Never Lived In: Stories by Sara Majka, is the newest A Public Space Book, with Graywolf Press.
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