Media Miscellany: 05.19.2005

Brigid: Frigid? Former Paris Review interim editrix Brigid Hughes will launch a new literary magazine called A Public Space, which will focus on fiction and poetry. Leaving recent MEL-topping articles aside, the story about the mag is from Canada (yay Canada!). Brr! It’s cold up there. Hughes and her magazine actually have nothing to do with Canada, but we were happy to have an excuse to rhyme ‘Brigid’ with ‘frigid,’ no matter how tenuous. [Canadian