Poems; pretty music; narratives, true or made up; love; interviews; art; book reviews; dorks.
Music
Joanna James, Chris Koza, Aviette, Martin Deveaney, Paul Engels, Beat a Dead Horse, The Mountain Goats, Ted Hearne, and so many others
Movies
Dustin, you want to field this one? Would you be pissed if I put Good Will Hunting in this section?
Television
The Wire, Generation Kill...David Simon, please make something again soon, so everyone can feel justified in watching tv.
Books
Alex Lemon's Mosquito and Hallelujah Blackout (Thanks, Alex, for the shout out). Ada Limon's Lucky Wreck and This Big Fake World. Ker-Thunk by Brad Liening. Books by Tao Lin--he's got a lot of them. Whatever Sam Osterhout puts out we'll like, hopefully it'll include the stories he has in InDigest. We're a literary magazine, do you really want us to start listing books?
About me: The Skinny: InDigest is an online literary magazine focused on creating a dialogue about and between the arts. It all started with a few people working in a coffee shop, probably sick of the customers, probably bored with talking about how cold it was, probably a lot of things. The point is they got talking, and then someone said, “We should call it InDigest.” And then the rest said, “I like it.” A year later, it came into existence.
Launched in December of 2007, InDigest was originally to be a forum to highlight important work of people we knew, but quickly became more than that, as we realized that if we had the opportunity to show the world great art we would not refuse the world that whether we knew the creators or not (insert exclamation point for dramatic effect). We soon had submissions coming from as far as Hong Kong and as close as having a beer with a friend (“Here you go friend, a story, for you.”). Now InDigest is into it's second year and has kicked off a reading series that has taken place in both Minneapolis/St. Paul and New York called InDigest 1207.
Our hope: To get people reading and looking at some work that they may not otherwise have the opportunity to read or look at. We understand that there are many avenues for people to get their poetry/fiction/nonfiction/art fix, and we are not so pretentious as to think that we are offering something off the charted path. We are a literary magazine, and hope only to add to the consumption by intelligent readers and viewers. (All others concern us little.) That being said, we do hope to offer new voices, and to do so in a refreshing way: to, again, get a dialogue going about and between the arts.
If you are interested in submitting work to InDigest please visit our submissions page and then send your work to us at indigestsubmit [at] gmail [dot] com. Thanks for visiting us here.
Past Contributors:
Alex Lemon, Ada Limon, Meakin Armstrong, Jess Grover, Tao Lin, Brandon-Scott Gorrell, Jimmy Chen, Nathan Hoks, Eric Gudas, Lech Harris, Kara Hendershot, Rachel De Joode, Ashleigh Lambert, Dan Wieken, Gina Germ, J. Albin Larson, Frederick Lane, Sam Osterhout, Meggie Elder, Rebecca Porte, Erica Wright, Tiffany Noelle Fung, Ryan Bird, Ingrid Chung, Brad Liening, Tove Floren, Pamela Kirton, Alonso Sierralta, Donald Van Auken, Travis Lindquist, Debra Ripp, and many others.
March 4th, 2009
Jibade-Khalil Huffman
Paul Dickinson
April 1st, 2009
Deb Olin Unferth
May 6th, 2009
Jennifer Knox
June 3rd, 2009
Rodrigo Toscano's Collapsible Poetics Theater
All 1207 Readings occur at (Le) Poisson Rouge at 158 Bleecker St. in New York. Readings begin at 7pm.
Who I'd like to meet: writers and readers, people who make art and people who look at art, people who can put together a damn good song and people who can appreciate one, people who like to talk about important things.
Hey, how are you doing? I just wanted to stop by and let you know about the latest author interview posted on www.joeypinkney.com.
Who's next in the "5 Minutes, 5 Questions With..." series? Rose Jackson-Beavers and Edward Booker, authors of A Hole in My Heart and Caught in the Net of Deception
Don't be a stranger. Let me know what's going on in your neck of the woods.
New CD: RIPE - THE DIXIE BEE-LINERS' highly anticipated sophomore release, produced by Bil VornDick (Bob Dylan, Alison Krauss, Ralph Stanley) for Pinecastle Records, featuring the #1 single "Down on The Crooked Road."
