Rachel at FishbowlNY may have wrangled an invite to David Margolick's book party, but we Galleycats are no strangers to the literary party circuit, either. Last night, I rode out to Brooklyn (the invite said Boerum Hill but, let's be honest, if you're a block from the Atlantic Avenue stop, you're in Fort Greene) for the launch of A Public Space, the new magazine founded by Brigid Hughes after her departure from The Paris Review.

The magazine's office were jumping with literati; it was the sort of party where I could just stand and nod my head while a woman who markets translations of Japanese horror stories chatted with another woman who's translating a Russian novel for the Modern Library. I spotted Elizabeth Gaffney, newborn in tow, hanging out by the cheese plate with fellow author Wesley Stace, and caught up with Elizabeth Merrick for the first time since the Cupcake Reading Series ended (she's just back from a residency at Ragdale, and looking forward to the December release of her novel, Girly, from her own press, Demimonde Books). Pauls Toutonghi, who just recently put up his author website, made sure to say hello--and I was even able to get in a minute or two of conversation with Hughes herself--mostly about how awesome the space, a converted stable next to the Brooklyn High School for the Arts, was and how the magazine's co-designer, Gary Hustwit, had found it on craigslist.