Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant

And They Said the Literary Magazine Was Dead!

Former Paris Review editor Brigid Hughes (Plimpton's short-lived successor) will be launching a new magazine. What's particularly cool is that she's enlisted Richard Powers (one of my favorite living novelists) and Yiyun Li as contributing editors. Hughes is also reportedly luring away Paris Review contributors for the new venture, which will be called A Public Space. This reporter is certainly curious to see how this will all turn out.