News

What We Missed | 12.05.10 What We Missed | 12.05.10

Selections from the new issue of H_ngm_n: Melissa Broder, Adam Deutsch, Matt Hart, Gregory Lawless, Anthony McCann, and Emily Kendal Frey [H_ngm_n] Selection from the new issue of elimae: Ashleigh Lambert, Jared Joseph, Luke Goebel, dt, Kelly Forsythe, and Angela…

Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? | 12.01.10 Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? | 12.01.10

You may be asking yourself: Why is there no new InDefinite Podcast this week? Again? My answer: We’re doing other things. The podcast isn’t over, it’ll be back very soon (though not next week either). We’re currently working on finalizing…

Download Harold Pinter’s BBC Radioplays | 11.29.10 Download Harold Pinter’s BBC Radioplays | 11.29.10

At the Seedy tumblr you can currently download a number of radioplays for the BBC by Harold Pinter. Download them here. If you go back a little further through the blog there is also a download of Samuel Beckett’s BBC…

What We Missed | 11.28.10 What We Missed | 11.28.10

The Zen of Silence: John Adams on John Cage [NY Times] Leigh Stein on Dorothea Lasky’s Black Life [Noö Journal] Photographing Hemingway [Jacket Copy] Listen to all of Harold Pinter’s BBC Radio Plays [Seedy] A Thanksgiving Prayer by William S.…

Happy Thanksgiving | 11.25.10 Happy Thanksgiving | 11.25.10

Happy Thanksgiving from the InDigest kids. We’re sharing an early quinaz mumblecore comedy short (that’s not what he calls them probably). It’s called Pilgrims. Get some mashed potatoes in your mustache while you watch. PILGRIMS – watch more funny…

InDigest 3 Year Anniversary Party in New York!!! | 11.24.10 InDigest 3 Year Anniversary Party in New York!!! | 11.24.10

It’s almost been three years! three whole years of online postulations, poetics, wordsmithery, and ephemera. We’re going to be through a couple of parties to celebrate. On December 12th we’ll have a little shin dig at the 1207 home base…

Arthur Phillips Does Literary Death Match | 11.23.10 Arthur Phillips Does Literary Death Match | 11.23.10

Arthur Phillips recently appeared in an episode of Literary Death Match NYC. Check out the video below, and if you want to know more about the play he’s talking about you can hear where he first talked about it –…

What We Missed | 11.21.10 What We Missed | 11.21.10

This is Your Brain on Metaphors [New York Times] Etc. 11 Nostalgic Activities Our Kids will Never Experience [Funny or Die]…

Ian Frazier Reads at the FSG Reading Series | 11.18.10 Ian Frazier Reads at the FSG Reading Series | 11.18.10

The FSG Reading Series with Ian Frazier from Farrar, Straus and Giroux on Vimeo.…

Salman Rushdie Trailer | 11.17.10 Salman Rushdie Trailer | 11.17.10

Here is the trailer for the new Salman Rushdie novel Luka and the Fire of Life. And yes, that is InDigest contributor and rock artiste Franz Nicolay you catch a glimpse of in there.…

InDigest Song of the Day: Rogue Valley’s Geese in the Flyway | 11.16.10 InDigest Song of the Day: Rogue Valley’s Geese in the Flyway | 11.16.10

You can stream the entirety of Rogue Valley’s new album Geese in the Flyway over at their Bandcamp page. I recommend turning it on and then go over here to read Chris Koza’s article about recording Geese in the Flyway

J. Bradley Reading at 1207 NYC on Sunday | 11.16.10 J. Bradley Reading at 1207 NYC on Sunday | 11.16.10

J. Bradley reads at the InDigest 1207 Reading Series from J. Bradley on Vimeo. Yes, this was a great reading. If you weren’t there you missed J. Bradley, Lauren Ireland, Eva Commander, and Jessica Francis Kane. Keep up on upcoming…

The Ongoing Saga of the Brilliant 3-year Old and Billy Collins | 11.15.10 The Ongoing Saga of the Brilliant 3-year Old and Billy Collins | 11.15.10

Remember this kid? He’s the three-year old who memorizes lots of poems. His reading of Billy Collins’ “Litany” is flawless, if not a little eerie. His reading of “Litany” also has over 300,000 plays. NPR got Billy Collins and Samuel…

National Book Foundation Announces 5 Under 35 Honorees | 10.06.10 National Book Foundation Announces 5 Under 35 Honorees | 10.06.10

The National Book Foundation has announced their 5 under 35 award honorees for 2010. They are Sarah Braunstein (The Sweet Relief of Missing Children), Grace Krilanovich (The Orange Eats Creeps), Téa Obreht (The Tiger’s Wife

What We Missed | 10.05.10 What We Missed | 10.05.10

The Rumpus Book Club Discussion with Jonathan Franzen [The Rumpus]…

The Funny Rhetoric of Politics | 10.05.10 The Funny Rhetoric of Politics | 10.05.10

Christine O’Donnell has become a piñata, and everyone has taken a swing. She’s an easy target. Not that I’m saying she’s not a total nut-bag (she is), but it’s easy to take a swing at someone who says she “dabbled…

What We Missed | 10.04.10 What We Missed | 10.04.10

Watch Every Andy Kaufman Video Ever in Chronological Order [Watch Andy Kaufman Be Alive] Is the Stegosaurus No More? [New Scientist] Sooner or Later Marijuana Will Be Legal (It’s strange to me that that this is coming from CNN)  [CNN]…

InDigest Song of the Day: Gayngs – “Eye in the Sky” (Alan Parsons Project cover) | 10.04.10 InDigest Song of the Day: Gayngs – “Eye in the Sky” (Alan Parsons Project cover) | 10.04.10

Listen: GAYNGS – Eye in the Sky from GAYNGS on Vimeo. Gayngs is the Minneapolis supergroup featuring members of Solid Gold, Megafaun, Bon Iver, Doomtree, Andrew Bird, Happy Apple, and more. They do a sort of ironic soul-funk devoid of…

Donald Duck vs. Glenn Beck | 10.04.10 Donald Duck vs. Glenn Beck | 10.04.10

This is amusing and a pretty good mash-up.…

What We Missed | 10.01.10 What We Missed | 10.01.10

Arthur Penn on Akira Kurosawa [Criterion Current] Michael Gizzi 1949-2010 [Coldfront]…

Inventors Killed by Their Own Inventions | 10.01.10 Inventors Killed by Their Own Inventions | 10.01.10

With the recent death of Segway Inc. owner Jimi Heselden I found this Wikipedia list, which seems both appropriate and inappropriate for posting. And here we are. In case you missed the tragicomedy of Heselden this week, Heselden was riding…

What We Missed | 09.30.10 What We Missed | 09.30.10

Greg Giraldo 1965-2010 [Comic's Comic] Amazing Evil Wylie comic of Emperor Franzen with appearances by a lot of other authors [Rumpus] Grindhouse: Nick Cave’s Dirty Detour by Sasha Frere Jones [New Yorker] Pretty Icelandic Sounds: Olöf Arnalds [Classical.tv] 24 Movie…

Greg Giraldo | 09.30.10 Greg Giraldo | 09.30.10

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c…

Two Writers Get MacArthur Fellowships Two Writers Get MacArthur Fellowships

This year’s MacArthur “Genius” Grant winners have been announced. As usual, it is filled with brilliant people that I’ve never heard of. They are so awesome that I’m not even smart enough to have heard of them before. (There is…

InDigest Song of the Day: WOOM – “Quetzalcoatl’s Ship” | 09.29.10 InDigest Song of the Day: WOOM – “Quetzalcoatl’s Ship” | 09.29.10

Listen: WOOM – “Quetzalcoatl’s Ship“ Oakland’s WOOM has a peculiar sound. It vacillates between kitschy, strangely rhythmic punk melodies and far more straightforward rock and pop sensibilities.  Listening to their debut album you hear At the Drive-In, Sleater Kinney, Madonna,…

What We Missed | 09.28.10 What We Missed | 09.28.10

Anatomy of a Scene: Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void [NY Times] Jenny Slate and Gabe Liedman start a new video series [Radio Happy Hour] Sigur Rós Blog About Commercials that Rip Off Their Music [Sigur Rós] The Fading Art of…

Quotes from a Book I Read and Enjoyed: This is Not a Novel | 09.28.10 Quotes from a Book I Read and Enjoyed: This is Not a Novel | 09.28.10

The Epigraph: “I am now trying an Experiment very frequent among Modern Authors; which is, to write upon Nothing. -Swift” “Stephen Foster never learned which side won the civil war.” “It is very difficult to understand and appreciate the generation…

Jonathan Ames Interviewed about Bored to Death | 09.28.10 Jonathan Ames Interviewed about Bored to Death | 09.28.10

A new season of Jonathan Ames HBO sitcom Bored to Death kicked off on Sunday, starting their second eight episode season. Jonathan Ames has been all over the place since the kick off. Take a look at this interview from…

Latest Articles

Tips for Being Productive Outside the Office
Tips for Being Productive Outside the Office
50 Tips on How to Write Good
50 Tips on How to Write Good
Fact or Fiction? – A Stark Portrayal of a World Gone Wrong by Jason Rutherford
Fact or Fiction? – A Stark Portrayal of a World Gone Wrong by Jason Rutherford
Interview with Denise Robbins, author of ‘Phish NET Stalkings’
Interview with Denise Robbins, author of ‘Phish NET Stalkings’
WordPress Codex Night Success and PDX Saturday Codex Party
WordPress Codex Night Success and PDX Saturday Codex Party
Partyknife | 05.22.12
Partyknife | 05.22.12
Publishing Jobs: Random House, HarperCollins, Rodale
Publishing Jobs: Random House, HarperCollins, Rodale
More New Articles
The Information Writers Need, Where They Can Find It™

18,663

articles from 605 writers and 79 publications.
Updated Hourly for Read-In or Delivery.

© Copyright 2008–2012 Pariah S. Burke • Article contents and photographs © Copyright their respective publishers. • Workflow: Writing runs a highly modified version of the Gadgetine WordPress theme by orange-themes.com. Website thumbnails provided by BitPixels.

Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

Workflow: Writing is a part of the Workflow: Network. Get Empowered, Get Informed, Get Connected

Connect with Workflow: Writing