New Issue of InDigest is Up Now!

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How many whiskeys would a whiskeychuck whiskey if a whiskeychuck could chuck whiskey? Find out Friday!

New Issue of InDigest Up Now! It's Our Five-Year Anniversary!

Yes, it's been five years since the very first issue of InDigest hit internet shelves worldwide. It seems both longer and shorter than that (that's what she said), and we're endlessly appreciative of everyone who has been reading us, supporting us, listening to podcasts, buying books, coming to readings, and giving us high fives along the way. You're wonderful. Thanks for supporting us.

Two points of interest:
1. We have a new issue.
2. We have a 5-Year Anniversary Celebration happening in New York this Friday.

1. Issue #25 is out now. It includes all the beautiful people listed above. Of particular note: Lech Harris was in issue #1 of InDigest, and is making an appearance in an issue #25, five years later. That's pretty great. There's a nice circularity to that. He's also reading at our anniversary event (more below). We also have an essay by Harry Houdini in this issue. No, it's not a joke. A real, really hilarious, issue by the real Harry Houdini. For real. This issue is also our first issue with our new gallery editor Zan Emerson. We're glad to have her with us. She's got a couple of interviews with some very unique artists in this issue, including the artist behind the painting above of a president (bonus points if you know who that is) with a breast on his head. I'll stop before I write a sentence on every contributor and why they are great, and why we are happy to have them in this issue. They're all great. That's why we're publishing them. We hope you like them as much as we do.

2. On Friday (December 14th) we're having a reading in celebration of our five-year anniversary. There will be readers from all over our fair nation coming to partake in a scotch and some good times. If you come you will see readings from Andrew Durbin, Jennifer H. Fortin, Lech Harris, Anne Cecelia Holmes, Steven Karl, Nate Pritts, Kathleen Rooney, and Wendy Xu. Awesome, right? High five. See you there.

(RSVP on Facebook.) The reading is at 7pm at the Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge.

Again, thanks to everyone who has read the magazine, who has sent us work, who has contributed to the blog, or who has edited with us over the years. I'd (Dustin here, hi) like to offer a special thanks to the folks who have made this possible over the last five years through a ton of time, effort, and love on their part: David Doody, Ashleigh Lambert, Brad Liening, Chris Koza, Kate Casanova, Catherine Orchard, Zan Emerson, Joe Owens, Jess Grover, and Reina Podell. Those are the folks that have made all of this possible. Thanks.

InDigest presents An Evening of Flash Fiction

Calling something "an evening" of something makes it sound so damn fancy. This won't be that fancy. Though I might wear a tie. I'm going to be drinking whiskey, but not fancy whisky, cheap whiskey. I think there will be some laughs, not belly laughs, but subtle laughs that are really funnier when you think about it. Maybe some super serious people will, instead of laughing, just smile and nod knowingly. That happens at readings sometimes. I also think there will be at least one person there who teaches in some capacity. So if you're coming to learn and I fall short of your expectations (I most certainly will) you can always go talk to that person. So this will also be educational, probably, if you put out some effort. You can't expect to learn unless you put out some effort.

Look, I know you're not supposed to say it, but I like flash fiction, and you do too. It'll be our secret, we don't have to tell anyone that this reading was the best thing you've ever been to afterward, when people ask. People will say, "Who's at this reading right now? It's not as high brow as this super boring Joanthan Franzen reading I'm going to tonight." And I'll say, "[quietly] Everyone...shh...[then louder] No one in here but us chickens." And we'll all have a drink and laugh at the people who don't know how to have any fun.

Also, don't you think it's not really fair that I listed the readers in alphabetical order? Robb is always last then. You should clap extra hard for him if you come. I hope you come. I'll clap extra hard.

This is going to be super fun. All these readers are great, and fun, and there will be drinks and laughing and high fives and low fives and side fives and Five Alives. Come hang out and see some stuff.

InDigest presents an Evening of Flash Fiction
w/ Ann Dewitt, John Jodzio, Robert Lopez, Lincoln Michel, Shya Scanlon, and Robb Todd
7pm | FREE
at The Gallery at (Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St, NYC

And thanks to Zan Emerson for the flier design that I think is pretty great.

We've got a brand new look and a brand new issue over at InDigest.

The new issue features work from Justin Alt, Joseph Bates, Andrew Booth, Allen Edwin Butt, Lindsay D'Andrea, Molly Dorozenski, Sally Grossart (who made the TS Eliot paper person above), Matthew Guenette, Anne Cecelia Holmes, Gregory Lawless, Rebecca Porte, Sampson Starkweather, Amber Tamblyn, and Matt Wilkinson.

We're pretty happy with the new design and the new issue. What do you think? Let us know how it looks, how it reads, and how you've been.

And thanks if you supported our new site project on Kickstarter. It means a lot. You made it possible for us to get this new thing going.

InDigest Issue #24 Launch Party Tonight!

Tonight is the InDigest Issue #24 Launch Party. We'll have drinks and then readings from Dave Hill, Sampson Starkweather, Mitchell S. Jackson, Joseph Riippi, Lindsay D'Andrea, Molly Dorozenski, Allen Edwin Butt and Andrew Booth. It'll be better than an ear wig.

InDigest and Kickstarter

Bruce MacHart

We posted a new episode of the InDefinite Podcast today. This one features novelist Bruce MacHart reading a short story about poker, kind of.

We also launched a poem of the day podcast at InDigest this week. I think it's worth checking out. I think that because I picked the poets / poems, and think I have superior taste in poetry. You may not agree. That's ok. We can still be friends.

Helen Phillips

Helen Phillips read from And Yet They Were Happy at a recent InDigest reading. It was great. We even read an excerpt from this book at our wedding.

How Much InDigest? So Much InDigest.

InDigest Issue #22 is out now! To quote Brad, Spoiler Alert: it's really good.

New InDefinite Podcast Episode w/ William Torgerson

We've got a new episode of the InDefinite Podcast up today with novelist William Torgerson. Take a listen here.

InDefinite Podcast

We've got a new episode of the InDefinite Podcast up today. This one features poet Nick Demske.

InDigest Issue #21 on Magazine Racks Nowhere

We slaved long and hard over this one. InDigest issue #21 is on the streets. Though don't look in stores. It's not there. It's literally in the streets. And on digital devices like the one you're looking at right now.

In the new issue you'll find poems from folks like Greg Lawless, Wendy Xu, Paul Siegell, Monica McClure, Charlotte Seley, and others....then there's new fiction from Amy Bergen, Michelle Cheever, and Eli Hager....a gallery from Maura Kelly Doyle, with an interview by Kate Casanova....plus a whole new series in the music section called The Lyric Sheet which presents lyrics to unreleased songs with no music....the first contributors to The Lyric Sheet are Zach Condon of Beirut and Richard Buckner....

Thanks for reading. Hope you like the new issue.

InDigest Editions!!!

We just launched InDigest Editions with the release of our first collection of poetry, Brad Liening's We Are Doomed: Dispatches From the City of the Future. It's pretty exciting. You can already get a copy on the internet. Or you can get one on the non-internet by coming to our launch reading Sunday night at LPR (158 Bleecker St.). Brad will be in town and reading along with Lily Ladewig, Gregory Lawless, and Kim Gek Lin Short. It's free. It will be fun. Drinks will be served. I heard a rumor that a certain InDigest editor is even going to be making cupcakes. No promises. Just a rumor I heard.

I interview John Reed and Arthur Phillips

for InDigest

New InDigestions

We've a new a issue of InDigest up right now. It includes an e-chapbook of our WikiLeaks Centos. Read it all here: indigestmag.com.

Wikileaks Centos

My poem "President Zapatero is highly unlikely to in the near term" is up at the InDigest blog for the Wikileaks Centos project. Read it here, and there is still time to submit one if you want to submit one....

Ghosts and Doppelgangers

From InDigest HQ:



InDigest poetry editor Brad Liening's first full length collection of poetry was released yesterday through Low Brow Press. The collection is called Ghosts and Doppelgängers and you currently get it over at Amazon. That's the killer cover there to the right. I (in a lovingly biased way, I know) recommend you drop everything you're doing and e-mail your loved ones to let them know that this is at the top of your Christmas list.

InDigest Wants You to Write a Cento Based on a Wikileak Cable

Friends, whistle-blowers, readers, bloggers, drunkards, past contributors to InDigest,

Whether or not you think Wikileaks has further endangered fragile U.S. diplomatic relations around the world, whether or not you believe Julian Assange sexually assaulted two women in Sweden, whether or not you think Amazon’s refusal to continuing hosting wikileaks is gutless and cowardly, whether or not you think Mastercard, Visa, and Paypal blocking funding to Wikileaks is similarly gutless and cowardly: let’s write some centos!

That’s right, centos! InDigest wants you to write centos based on the Wikileaks cables to be included at the InDigest blog and a broadside anthology that will appear in the next issue of InDigest (and maybe elsewhere for a future project from InDigest as well). We’ve already got a bunch of these and they are going so well that we wanted to open this up to anyone.

Check out the already massive load of leaked diplomatic cables here, write a cento and send it over. (Wikileaks has been having to bounce around different servers, let us know if you’re having trouble tracking them down.) If you have friends whose writing you enjoy, tell them about it. The more the merrier, there’s certainly enough material. We’ll be posting them on the blog as they come in, publishing broadsides in the next issue and throwing reading parties in both New York and Minneapolis in January.

To submit:
Send them here: indigestsubmit@gmail.com
Subject line: wiki centos
Deadline: rolling, but we’re wrapping it all up by December 30.

Happy writing.

New InDigest, New Radio Happy Hour

Oh, busy day. This morning we put out Issue #18 of InDigest! Yeah. It's great. Poetry from Bart Schneider, Autumn Giles, Jackie Clark, Tony Leuzzi, new fiction from Lech Harris, Caren Beilen, and J. Bradley (who is reading at InDigest 1207 on Nov. 17 in NYC). New columns, recording journals, interviews, podcasts, and more.

READ IT NOW.

Then, Radio Happy Hour put out the first video of a new series called Radio Happy Hour presents The Fall of Keith. It stars the Radio Happy Hour kids (and me) and comedians Sean Patton, John Knefel, Molly Knefel, and Brett Tabisel. I like it. See it:

The Fall of Keith: Act I from Radio Happy Hour on Vimeo.