Here’s the Kickstarter project that Colin Marshall just launched over at Kickstarter. Marshall is the host of the recently ended podcast The Marketplace of Ideas. I’m a big fan of that podcast, which featured some great episodes on author Cesar…

Hey there readers. So, as anyone with an internet connection can tell you (and since you’re here I assumed that you already know) today is an internet-wide protest against SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, that is working its…

It wasn’t very long after I posted the last video that the Tate uploaded another studio visit, this one with sculptor Peter Randall-Page talking to the Tate about structure, pattern, and his process.…

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It’s getting to be that time. InDigest is about to close for submissions for issue 23, which will be released in February. We’re giving you until this Sunday, January 15th to send us your articles, poems, stories, essays, charts, diagrams,…

The wonderful Leigh Stein has just released her debut novel The Fallback Plan […

Yesterday, in The Daily Rumpus, author and editor Stephen Elliott mentioned that he had an idea for a new print publication. In today’s Daily Rumpus he announced the start of a project called “Letters in the Mail.” This new print…

Listen: Lily Ladewig’s “Free Diving” Lily Ladewig reads for us on today’s Poem of the Day Podcast. She shares a poem called “Free Diving,” which you can read in its entirety after the jump and was originally published in the…

Well, that was long. We’ll be tweeting our favorite year-end lists all day. Have a list you want to share? Get it to us @InDigestMag.…

This short interview with Maurice Sendak is great. He talks about why there isn’t a second Where the Wild Things Are (”I’m not a whore”), why he loves William Blake, and more. He’s pretty charming.…

Author Lev Grossman took part in a series of reading hosted by the PEN American Center in November. In this video Grossman reads from The Magician King, his newest novel and the sequel to his popular novel The Magicians. The…

I was saddened to learn last night that Hitchens had passed away, as he was a valuable writer and thinker that made the world a more interesting, or more challenging place in some small way. I just started reading Letters to…

At yesterday’s Day of Action for the Occupy movement lots was happening. Protests on the west coast attempted to shut down ports in which Goldman Sachs owns a stake, an attempt to cut into Wall Street profits. In New York,…

The big story for the Occupy movement this week was the occupation of foreclosed homes. The movement has left the parks and is partaking in direct action initiatives that are putting homeless families into foreclosed homes. Occupy Atlanta helped a…

Annabelle Yeeseul Yoo read at our InDigest Issue #22 launch party at The Gallery at LPR.…

Allyson Paty read at the InDigest issue 22 launch party at (Le) Poisson Rouge. In this clip from the event she reads “At Variance,” which was published in issue 22.…

Updated 6pm Occupy SF was evicted today. The police converged on the plaza where the occupiers were camping and gave the protesters five minutes to vacate the park 30 protesters remained after that five minutes and were arrested, while another…

Eric Lindley read at the issue 22 launch reading in New York. The posted poem is an untitled poem that we published in issue 22.…

The big financial story this week was the revelation that while Congress was embattled over the $700 billion bailout for Wall Street, the Federal Reserve was funneling trillions of dollars to Wall Street and big banks. Ultimately, during this time…

The 24th European Film Awards have just announced the winners, with Lars von Trier’s Melancholia taking top honors, as well as winning the most awards. Here’s a list of the winners, for those of you that are more interested in…

George Lakoff joins the myriad pile of op-eds being published right now on what is next for the Occupy movement. Lakoff argues that the most important next step is electoral power. He believes that this can be attained by joining…

Helen Phillips read from her debut book And Yet They Were Happy at an InDigest event earlier this year called An Evening of Flash Fiction and Prose Poetry, at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York.…

So, we were a little light on updates yesterday for a variety of reasons, none worth printing. Today’s update will have a little about the L.A. and Philadelphia Occupy evictions that occurred late on Tuesday night, and some other tidbits…

Updated 7:45pm Democracy Now! reports on last night’s Occupy evictions in LA and Philadelphia. Protesters who were at the eviction are interviewed, though DN! doesn’t verify the claims made, including that a policeman pulled a knife on a protester. Love…

Elvis Costello came out this week and told fans not to buy his new box set. He says it’s a rip off, and that you’re better off buying the new Louie Armstrong box set. The clip above is from NBC…

This video features Krystal Languell reading at the InDigest presents An Evening of Flash Fiction and Prose Poetry, hosted by our narratives editor Ashleigh Lambert, at (Le) Poisson Rouge a couple of months back. All of these poems are from…

by Dustin Luke Nelson On Drink seems to me to be an essential element in the bookshelf of a modern gentleman. Kingsley Amis’ bible for the drinking man provides a variety of referential tools for the functional alcoholic. It’s a…

Keith Gessen, editor of N+1 and contributor to the New Yorker, blogged yesterday about being arrested at the November 17th protests in New York. [The New Yorker] Due to a Freedom of Information Act request 29,000 pages of information have…

Keith Gessen, editor of N+1 and contributor to the New Yorker, blogged yesterday about being arrested at the November 17th protests in New York. [The New Yorker] Due to a Freedom of Information Act request 29,000 pages of information have…

I know we’ve been posting lots of Kickstarter projects lately, but while it’s a model that can be very annoying when you have lots of friends contacting you about these things, it’s an interesting model if you’re actually interested in…

Updated 6:34pm The New York Times is reporting, via Twitter, that arrests have taken place today at the CUNY protests. [@NYTMetro] ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… Updated 5:59pm The image to the right of here has been making its way around the Internet today.…