Now that things have settled down after the launch party, Brigid Hughes chats with mediabistro.com about her dreams for her new magazine, A Public Space:

"I hope A Public Space will have started an interesting conversation, about fiction, about literature, its place in our culture. I hope we'll have published work that takes on big ideas, that risks something. That matters. And I hope we'll have found an audience that is as curious, as ambitious in its interests, as those writers. I hope A Public Space will be held dear by a wide range of readers."