InDigest
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InDigest is a literary journal founded in 2007 by editors Dustin Luke Nelson and David Doody. It is an online quarterly literary magazine, as well as a reading series, podcast, and publishing house located in New York City
and Minneapolis, MN.
In addition to narratives and poetry, the website runs a series called InDialogue that pits two artists working in different media together to conduct a mutual interview. Past participants have included poet Ada Limon
with Will Sheff
of Okkervil River
, novelist Peter Bognanni with musician Franz Nicolay
, Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos
with Booster Gold comic creator Dan Jurgens
, and author and publisher Matt Bell
paired with composer and New Amsterdam Records founder Judd Greenstein
.
The music section features a series of tour and recording diaries from a wide variety of musicians. Contributions have included journals from Peter Silberman of The Antlers
, Josh Grier of Tapes ‘n Tapes, Dorian Wood of Killsonic, Chris Koza of Rogue Valley
, and others.
InDigest was the recipient of a 2009 Best of the Net award for Nicole Callihan’s story “One Fish, Two Fish,” and published two poems featured as runner-up entries in the 2009 Best of the Net awards.
In 2010 InDigest received two finalist acknowledgements in the 2010 Best of the Net series for poems by Leigh Stein and Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney
.
InDigest Editions also does digital chapbooks, including the InDigest WikiLeaks Centos chapbook, and digital broadsides from authors such as CA Conrad, Jennifer H. Fortin, Bart Schneider, Ronaldo V. Wilson, and others.
(and for a short while at the KGB Bar) in New York, and also does special events in Minneapolis, MN.
The series has featured prominent writers including: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sam Apple, Meakin Armstrong, Angela Ball, Melissa Broder, Stephen Burt, Peter Bognanni, J. Bradley, Giao Buu, Jackie Clark, Deborah Clearman, Evan Commander, CA Conrad, Paul D. Dickinson, Meggie Elder, Joshua Ferris, Sasha Fletcher, Zachary German, Autumn Giles, Jess Grover, JC Hallman, Jim Hanas, James Hannaham, Paul Harding, Lech Harris, Matt Hart, Geoff Herbach, Paul Gregory Himmelein, Nathan Hoks, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Laird Hunt, Lauren Ireland, Marlon James, Jessica Francis Kane, Steven Karl, Becca Klaver, Jennifer L. Knox, Dorothea Lasky, Ada Limon, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Emily St. John Mandel, Wayne Miller, Ander Monson, Aaron Michael Morales, Daniel Nester, Franz Nicolay, Jena Osman, Sam Osterhout, Elsbeth Pancrazi, Arthur Phillips, Andrew Porter, Nate Pritts, John Reed, Martin Rock, Dana Rossi, Robyn Sara, Laura Sims, Neil Smith, Leigh Stein, Bianca Stone, Darin Strauss, Justin Taylor, Rodrigo Toscano, Deb Olin Unferth, Ronaldo V. Wilson, John Wray, Erica Wright, and Rachel Zucker.
InDigest has also hosted a number of other events including the first annual Vladimir Nabokov Birthday Party in 2011, CMJ Showcases, the annual anniversary reading and much more.
, Deb Olin Unferth
, Jim Hanas, Steven Karl, and Geoff Herbach. The InDefinite Podcast is available for free at the InDigest website or in the iTunes Store.
Previous Editors: David Doody, Chris Koza and Jesse Sawyer
Previous Narratives Editor: Reina Podell
Featuring: Michael Cadnum, Matthew Daddona, Kirk Demerais, Lindsey Ellis, Roxane Gay, Judd Greenstein, Josh Grier of Tapes ‘n Tapes, Geoff Herbach, Jess Hirsch, Gregory Lawless, Mark Leidner, Erin Lyndal Martin, J.A. Tyler, the WikiLeaks Centos e-book, and Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Plus regular columns and features: ArtBurn, the InDefinite Podcast, Franz Nicolay, Peculiar Travel Suggestions, Play by Play, and Dana Rossi.
New York City
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and Minneapolis, MN.
The Magazine
Founded in 2007, InDigest began publishing narrative selection, poetry, criticism, essays, and art. It has published a variety of media including art poetry, videos, and audio stories. The website is home to not only the quarterly literary magazine but an arts and literary blog, as well as a weekly round-up of the best events in New York City and Minneapolis.In addition to narratives and poetry, the website runs a series called InDialogue that pits two artists working in different media together to conduct a mutual interview. Past participants have included poet Ada Limon
Ada Limón
Ada Limón is an American poet. Born in Sonoma, California, She is the author of three full-length poetry collections, and two chapbooks....
with Will Sheff
Will Sheff
Will Sheff is the frontman for the Austin, Texas-based indie band Okkervil River . Originally from Meriden, New Hampshire, he is also a founding member and co-songwriter for Shearwater , another Austin band...
of Okkervil River
Okkervil River
Okkervil River is an indie rock band from Austin, Texas. Formed in 1998, the band takes its name from a short story by Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya. They self-released their first album, Stars Too Small to Use, which led them to the South by Southwest music festival. After recording their first...
, novelist Peter Bognanni with musician Franz Nicolay
Franz Nicolay
Franz Nicolay is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer currently based in Brooklyn, New York. He is perhaps best known for playing the accordion and the piano in The World/Inferno Friendship Society and playing keyboards in The Hold Steady from 2005 to 2010...
, Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos
Eddie Argos
Eddie Argos is the lead singer of English rock band Art Brut,born in Weymouth, England. He later moved to Poole, Dorset as a young child, and has subsequently written about the Martin Kemp-Welch School there , in the song Martin Kemp-Welch Five A Side Football Rules from the album Brilliant! Tragic!...
with Booster Gold comic creator Dan Jurgens
Dan Jurgens
Dan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is best known for creating the superhero Booster Gold, and for his lengthy runs on the Superman titles Adventures of Superman and Superman , particularly during The Death of Superman storyline...
, and author and publisher Matt Bell
Matt Bell
Matthew Elwin Bell is a professional race car driver. Bell was born in Mountain View, California. Although Bell grew up in Los Altos, California, he attended Mountain View High School from which he graduated in 2004. After graduation, he pursued transportation design at the Academy of Art...
paired with composer and New Amsterdam Records founder Judd Greenstein
Judd Greenstein
Judd Greenstein is an American composer of beat-driven contemporary classical music, and an avid promoter of new music in New York City. He is also a co-director of New Amsterdam Records.-Life and career:Judd Greenstein was born and raised in Manhattan...
.
The music section features a series of tour and recording diaries from a wide variety of musicians. Contributions have included journals from Peter Silberman of The Antlers
The Antlers
The Antlers is the student section of the University of Missouri basketball team.-History:The Antlers were formed in 1976 when a small section of 11 courtside seats in the school's basketball arena at that time, Hearnes Center, was made available to all students. At the time, all other prime level...
, Josh Grier of Tapes ‘n Tapes, Dorian Wood of Killsonic, Chris Koza of Rogue Valley
Rogue Valley
The Rogue Valley is a farming and timber-producing region in southwestern Oregon in the United States. Located along the middle Rogue River and its tributaries in Josephine and Jackson counties, the valley forms the cultural and economic heart of Southern Oregon near the California border. The...
, and others.
InDigest was the recipient of a 2009 Best of the Net award for Nicole Callihan’s story “One Fish, Two Fish,” and published two poems featured as runner-up entries in the 2009 Best of the Net awards.
In 2010 InDigest received two finalist acknowledgements in the 2010 Best of the Net series for poems by Leigh Stein and Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney
Kathleen Rooney
Kathleen Rooney is an American writer and editor. She was born in Beckley, West Virginia and raised in the Midwest. She earned a B.A. from the George Washington University and an M.F.A. in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College...
.
InDigest Editions
InDigest Editions is the publishing branch of InDigest, which was launched in April 2011. The first release was titled We Are Doomed: Dispatches from the City of the Future by Brad Liening.InDigest Editions also does digital chapbooks, including the InDigest WikiLeaks Centos chapbook, and digital broadsides from authors such as CA Conrad, Jennifer H. Fortin, Bart Schneider, Ronaldo V. Wilson, and others.
InDigest 1207 Reading Series
The InDigest 1207 Reading Series was founded in 2008 as a monthly reading series at (Le) Poisson Rouge(Le) Poisson Rouge
Poisson Rouge is a music venue and multimedia art cabaret in New York City founded in 2008 by Justin Kantor and David Handler on the former site of The Village Gate. The performance space was designed and engineered by John Storyk/WSDG...
(and for a short while at the KGB Bar) in New York, and also does special events in Minneapolis, MN.
The series has featured prominent writers including: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sam Apple, Meakin Armstrong, Angela Ball, Melissa Broder, Stephen Burt, Peter Bognanni, J. Bradley, Giao Buu, Jackie Clark, Deborah Clearman, Evan Commander, CA Conrad, Paul D. Dickinson, Meggie Elder, Joshua Ferris, Sasha Fletcher, Zachary German, Autumn Giles, Jess Grover, JC Hallman, Jim Hanas, James Hannaham, Paul Harding, Lech Harris, Matt Hart, Geoff Herbach, Paul Gregory Himmelein, Nathan Hoks, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Laird Hunt, Lauren Ireland, Marlon James, Jessica Francis Kane, Steven Karl, Becca Klaver, Jennifer L. Knox, Dorothea Lasky, Ada Limon, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Emily St. John Mandel, Wayne Miller, Ander Monson, Aaron Michael Morales, Daniel Nester, Franz Nicolay, Jena Osman, Sam Osterhout, Elsbeth Pancrazi, Arthur Phillips, Andrew Porter, Nate Pritts, John Reed, Martin Rock, Dana Rossi, Robyn Sara, Laura Sims, Neil Smith, Leigh Stein, Bianca Stone, Darin Strauss, Justin Taylor, Rodrigo Toscano, Deb Olin Unferth, Ronaldo V. Wilson, John Wray, Erica Wright, and Rachel Zucker.
InDigest has also hosted a number of other events including the first annual Vladimir Nabokov Birthday Party in 2011, CMJ Showcases, the annual anniversary reading and much more.
InDefinite Podcast
InDefinite Podcast is a weekly podcast from InDigest that features live readings of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. The series has featured NBCC winner Darin StraussDarin Strauss
Darin Strauss is an American writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Strauss's memoir Half a Life won the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for memoir/autobiography.-Biography:...
, Deb Olin Unferth
Deb Olin Unferth
Deb Olin Unferth is an American short-story writer, novelist, and memoirist. She is the author of the collection of stories Minor Robberies, the novel Vacation, both published by McSweeney's, and the memoir, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, published by Henry Holt.Her...
, Jim Hanas, Steven Karl, and Geoff Herbach. The InDefinite Podcast is available for free at the InDigest website or in the iTunes Store.
Writers Who Have Appeared in InDigest
J. Bradley, Peter Bognanni, Stephen Burt, Jackie Clark, CA Conrad, Matt Hart, Steven Karl, Becca Klaver, Alex Lemon, Ada Limon, Tao Lin, Franz Nicolay, Nate Pritts, Kathleen Rooney, Bart Schneider, Kim Gek Lin Short, Leigh Stein, Ronaldo V. Wilson, and hundreds more.InDigest Staff
- Founding Editors: Dustin Luke Nelson
- Narratives Editor: Ashleigh Lambert
- Poetics Editors: Brad Liening and Jess Grover
- Gallery Editors: Catherine Orchard and Kate Casanova
Previous Editors: David Doody, Chris Koza and Jesse Sawyer
Previous Narratives Editor: Reina Podell
Issues
Issue 19:Featuring: Michael Cadnum, Matthew Daddona, Kirk Demerais, Lindsey Ellis, Roxane Gay, Judd Greenstein, Josh Grier of Tapes ‘n Tapes, Geoff Herbach, Jess Hirsch, Gregory Lawless, Mark Leidner, Erin Lyndal Martin, J.A. Tyler, the WikiLeaks Centos e-book, and Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, Plus regular columns and features: ArtBurn, the InDefinite Podcast, Franz Nicolay, Peculiar Travel Suggestions, Play by Play, and Dana Rossi.