Brigid Hughes, George Plimpton’s successor at The Paris Review, who was forced out of the publication earlier this year, has a new project – editor of “A Public Space”. The new publication’s “focus will be on two art forms no longer in fashion — fiction and poetry. Magazines such as Collier’s and The Atlantic Monthly once served as starting points and sustainers for poets and fiction writers, from Wallace Stevens to F. Scott Fitzgerald, but few major publications highlight such work anymore. Hughes’ contract was not renewed at The Paris Review earlier this year, amid reports that the board of directors wanted more nonfiction and a more commercial approach.”