Brad Liening: Dean Young, Fall Higher: “We all think about suddenly disappearing.” John Hawkes, Second Skin: Wow. That’s all I can say. That, and you should read this book.…

Ashleigh Lambert: The last book I read and loved was The Transformation by Juliana Spahr. It’s basically a poetic record of Spahr’s attempt to figure out where, how, and why to situate herself in the world. Spahr is a white…

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Here are a few videos of Kim Gek Lin Short reading at the InDigest launch party for InDigest Editions and Brad Liening’s We Are Doomed: Dispatches From the City of the Future. Kim reads poems from her forthcoming full length…

Björk has been dropping small hints as to what her epic new “album” Biophilia will look like. Little is specifically known except that it will be a multimedia project with a number of online assets and physical objects for each…

Hello Lonesome (2011) dir. Adam Reid Written by Adam Reid Starring Kamel Boutros, Harry Chase, Lynn Cohen, and James Urbaniak by Joseph Michael Owens In his 1996 magnum opus, Infinite Jest, the late David Foster Wallace wrote: “What passes for…

The electronic music duo Bluebrain has devised what they are calling the world’s first location aware album. The “album,” titled The National Mall, is really an iPhone ap that can only be played in Washington DC. The National Mall uses…

We at Greenleaf Book Group would like to take a moment to recognize our authors who are publishing this June.…

Listen: Episode #13: Deb Olin Unferth In this episode of InDefinite Podcast Deb Olin Unferth reads two sections from her most recent book Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War [Henry Holt and Co.,…

Here’s a pretty interesting Kickstarter project:…

Where have we been? We’ve been crafting some new projects and haven’t been blogging much. A couple of things we are doing before we’re back to blogging like we once did….. We’re looking for a blog editor. E-mail dustin[at]indigestmag.com if…

Interesting article in the Economist this week where I finally get to see one of my (rare) words used in an actual article!   Coulrophobia!  You remember this word from an earlier lesson of mine?  You can see that lesson…

In the latest issue of InDigest Dustin chats with Arthur Phillips and John Reed, two authors with “a similarly pragmatic love of Shakespeare.” For his latest work, The Tragedy of Arthur, Phillips actually wrote a “new” Shakespeare play. Phillips was…

It’s happened. InDigest has launched InDigest Editions. A new publishing branch from your favorite online, quarterly literary magazine.The first book is a poetry collection by Brad Liening titled We Are Doomed: Dispatches From the City of the Future. You can…

by Ted Kooser, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 When I was a little boy, the fear of polio hung over my summers, keeping me away from the swimming pool. Atomic energy was then in its infancy. It had defeated Japan and…

Listen: György Ligeti – String Quartet No. 2 // Song of the day today is taken from WQXR’s Q2 broadcast of the JACK Quartet performing György Ligeti’s String Quartet No. 2. At this same performance they performed Steve Lehman’s Nos…

(With the new issue and illnesses and platypi infestations we’ve had to push this week’s event listings back until Wednesday…gasp…sorry….hope you managed without us.) Shabazz Palaces heads to Santos 05.11 Matthew Rohrer is reading at the Southern Writers Reading Series…

(With the new issue and illnesses and platypi infestations we’ve had to push this week’s event listings back until Wednesday…gasp…sorry….hope you managed without us.) Maria Bamford does four nights at ACME 05.11 One of our favorite comedians, Maria Bamford, a…

On Tuesday, May 10th, Jonathan Franzen and director and screenwriter Paul Schrader will be speaking at the Morgan Library.  Schrader is best known for his writing of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, and has a rather interesting background—his parents were…

Listen: Man Man – “Life Fantastic” Man Man have always distinguished themselves to me by having the ability to sound both polished and retaining the heart of a shuddering punk band that could fall apart at any moment. “Life Fantastic”…

In the world of scholarly research and publishing, a name – and the reputation that follows – can mean everything. But in the Digital Age, always getting the names right today – and for the future – has proven elusive.…

In offices from Manhattan to Mountain View, they’re picking up the scattered pieces of the Google Book Settlement. But like Humpty Dumpty in the old rhyme, can the Authors Guild, AAP and Google ever put the Settlement back together again?…

I received an e-mail recently that quoted Eudora Welty’s essay “Place in Fiction,” “Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable as art, if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else.” Seems apt for Tuesday night’s…

Listen: Thee Oh Sees – “I Need Seed” This is a gritty tunes that makes me think of adjectives like gritty, as well as jaunty and poppy. I want to hear this album now. “I Need Seed” is off of…

Listen: Episode #12: John Reed In this episode of InDefinite Podcast author John Reed (Snowball’s Chance, Tales of Woe) reads sonnets written while working on his new play by William Shakespeare, All the World’s a Grave (Penguin, 2008). Since this was…

Listen: Grouper – Alien Observer from Hamish Parkinson on Vimeo. Grouper can oscillate between styles with a stunning amount of subtlety, but when she is at her best she is creating ethereal loops and tending towards ambiance over melody. With…

a guest post by Vanessa Libertad Garcia on writing her collection of short stories The Voting Booth After Dark: Despicable, Embarrassing, Repulsive I wrote the Voting Booth After Dark: Despicable, Embarrassing, Repulsive over a period of about 3 years.  I…

by Ted Kooser, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 Here’s a poem in which eight-year-old Ava Schicke, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska, tells us just who she is and what she thinks. I am I am a daughter and a sister. I…

Sloane Crosley reads in Edina on Monday 05.02 Sloane Crosley reads from her newest collection of witty and irreverent essays, How Did You Get This Number? The reading takes place at Barnes and Noble in Edina. 05.03 Lightsey Darst’s The…

Maya Deren's "At Land" screens at PS1 05.02 Head over to PS1 today to catch the final day of Maya Deren’s brilliant short film “At Land.” Or if Long Island City isn’t on your map you can go to McNally…

Listen: I know we’ve featured Dorian Wood a few times over the last year, but that’s because he writes beautiful songs. This just released in-studio video is for a track called “Pearline” that will be featured on his forthcoming album…