Dan Mager’s Partyknife is available now for exclusively through the Bird LLC site, prior to the official release date of June 4th. That’s the trailer for it below.…

Today we get the first clip from Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film The Master, which will be released on October 12th. The film, written by Anderson, stars Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.…

Antony Hegarty is releasing a new album of live works titled CUT THE WORLD on August 7. He has posted something of a short film with a track from the album as well. However, this isn’t a musical track; it’s…

The fashion in which early street art, graffiti art, and other aerosol-based alternative art forms went undocumented in their infancy — possibly because of a desire to not document illegal activities, possibly because it wasn’t understood as a “serious” art…

Vanessa Place reads from “Statement of Fact” on May 2nd, as a part of the “Protocols of Literary Listening” event at the Whitney Biennial. This is just an excerpt that posted to the Pennsound YouTube channel.…

More info from Pitchfork on the passing of The Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch.…

Today is the final day of our Kickstarter project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us and everything we’re doing here. Our new site is in development, and we can’t wait to share it with you. If you haven’t supported…

The New York Poetry Festival is a really great annual event on Governor’s Island in New York. If you’re going, buy your tickets through their Kickstarter project and help make the festival possible. Today is the last day to donate…

Hey Everyone! Thanks for your support so far, we hit our goal, and we’ve only got four days to go. But we’ve got a new goal. We want to get to $3,000 by the deadline to help us launch another…

InDigest Poetry Editor Brad Liening also runs Hell Yes Press, who has put up some good and good-looking releases. Their newest is a poetry anthology on cassette called 21 Love Poems. The InDigest Offices are completely biased on this one,…

Hey everyone. Wanted to make a quick note to you all about our podcasts and about our Kickstarter project. 1. Sorry for the erratic-ness of the podcasts the last two weeks. They’ll be back to a normal schedule soon. It’s…

There’s about 24 hours left to support Eric Lindley’s Kickstarter campaign, raising funds for the recording and distribution of his new album. Eric has contributed to InDigest a couple of times in the past. We’ve published some of his poems…

These United States – “Dead & Gone” So far, what we’ve heard from the forthcoming album from These United States (out in June) has been excellent. I can’t get enough of this song. It’s a great synthesis of americana and…

Check out these broadsides that we are giving out for free tomorrow. This set, InDigest Broadcards #6, is bound together into a mini-chapbook and features the work of the authors who are reading at our InDigest Issue #23 Launch Party…

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Check out this short for a flash fiction piece by John Jodzio called “The Hookers In My Neighborhood Really Love My Chili.” The story comes from his new collection Get in if You Want To Live [Paper Darts, 2012]. Also,…

Dale Cooper Quartet and the Dictaphones – “Le Implacable Gentilhommiére” This track is pretty weird, but very intoxicating. It contains Tom Waits penchant for percussion driven songwriting, Serge Gainsbourg’s drunken low key warble, and an almost ambient influence lying over…

Listen: Andrey Kurkov interviewed by Dustin Nelson for The Radio Dispatch This interview with Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov (Death and the Penguin, The Case of the General’s Thumb) by InDigest Editor Dustin Nelson for John and Molly Knefel’s Podcast The…

Monday: Sackett Street Writers Workshop Reading Series w/ Adam Wilson, Abby Sher, Jenny Zhang & Joe Bernardo at Bookcourt, 7pm Tuesday: Poem. Body. Planet. Need. a reading with Juliana Spahr and TC Tolbert at Dixon Place, 7pm Wednesday: Release Party…

Hell Yes Press, a micro-press run by our poetry editor Brad Liening, is releasing an anthology of love poems on cassette. That’s it above, being guarded by Mechagodzilla. They’re hosting a release party on April 14 at Boneshaker Books. Be…

Moonface – “Headed for the Door” A great track from the new album from another Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, ex-Frog Eyes) project. Moonface’s third album is out soon and is called With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery. Mark Armine –…

No new episodes Thursday and Friday, because we launched a Kickstarter project, a new issue, and announced some new readings. The InDigest Offices have been buzzing. We’ll be back next week with brand new episodes from the Poem of the…

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Read “Diving Into the Wreck” and hear it read by Anne Waldman over at poets.org. “A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you…where…

The New York Chapbook Festival starts today. We didn’t include any of these events in our weekly events round-up because there are enough great events at the Chapbook Fest that it deserves its own post. Take a look at the…

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The MATA Festival, now it’s fourteenth year, announced their official line-up for the 2012 season yesterday. The festival that highlights young composer and the most innovative ensembles is an annual highlight of the New York music scene. This year’s festival…

InDigest Magazine is seeking interns/volunteers/contributors/people-with-ideas-who-are-excited-about-literature. Before we get going on the details of this, you should know that InDigest is a labor of love from some wonderful people, and the InDigest Offices are a mythical place, in that they are…

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Our friends in Geocachers and Rogue Valley got together and shot a new episode of Geocachers that you can see above. Chris Koza, of Rogue Valley, was a co-founding editor of InDigest, and is still an occasional contributor. You can…

Tasteful Nudes by Dave Hill: The Incredible Music Video – watch more funny videos Comedian, fashion afficianado, and man-about-town Dave Hill has released a trailer for his forthcoming book Tasteful Nudes. The Moby Awards should be put on alert for…