Monofonus Press

Jul 29 10

A Sarah Murphy photo of Jules Buck Jones art from Everglades!

Look Ma, We’re Famous!
Jul 29 10

The Austin Chronicle included Teleportal Readings in a roundup of Austin reading series this week. Here’s the video mentioned in the article, in which we turned Dean Young into a cartoon (more Teleportal videos here). One correction: our next show is in September, not October. Stay tuned for details!

Dean Young Teleportal Reading from Monofonus Press on Vimeo.

Jules Buck Jones: Everglades
Jul 10 10

Both large-scale works from the book and newer work will be on display at the Monofonus compound for one night only on Sunday, July 11, from 6pm to 10pm. We’ll have free beer and slithering special guests, and the book will be available for pick-up by Kickstarter supporters and purchase by those who missed the chance to pre-order.

Spend the Fourth with MonofonU.S.
Jun 28 10

This Sunday, we’re opening up the Monofonus compound for Americanarama: Commemorating the Golden Spike.

Join us behind the gates at 610 Vermont Road for an inflatable slip n’ slide, video art (this year’s Teleportal Readings, Circulatory System’s Traveling Video Show #1 and its schoolbus), bands (Stormshelter, David Israel, Tiny James, and Ralph White), a historical golden spike installation by Andy Rihn and Max Juren, and really cool prizes for the most patriotic outfit and and potluck dish.

PEACED/tour
May 17 10

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth are currently pedaling their noisy goods throughout east America.  If you catch them on the road, you might be able to pick up a copy of Peaced before the vinyl ep is released this summer on Monofonus.

click here for tour dates.

The Mongrel’s Hoard
May 17 10

Ralph White’s new album, The Mongrel’s Hoard, is available at Trailer Space Records, End of an Ear, Waterloo and in our store. Drone-like, trance-inducing “roots music” packaged in reused sleeves with hand-screened art by Tim Kerr. Limited to 300.  Listen

June 1=Teleportal 5!
May 10 10

On Tuesday, June 1, head to the Hotel San Jose’s courtyard for a live reading by fiction writer Elizabeth Crane (You Must Be This Happy to Enter), a teleportal reading by journalist and Texas Monthly editor Jake Silverstein (Nothing Happened, and Then It Did), and an interactive performance by philosopher and Believer interviewer Tamler Sommers (A Very Bad Wizard). We’ll also be featuring videos from innovative DVD journal Rattapallax and a special musical guest. Domy Books will be selling a selection of timely titles, and we’ll have a fresh stock of Teleportal t-shirts and totebags for sale.

Elizabeth Crane is the author of two collections of short stories from Little, Brown, When the Messenger Is Hot and All This Heavenly Glory. Her most recent collection, You Must Be This Happy to Enter, was published by Punk Planet Books. The New York Times Book Review has said, “Crane has a distinctive and eccentric voice that is consistent and riveting.”

Jake Silverstein is the editor of Texas Monthly and a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine. His first book, Nothing Happened and Then It Did, a Chronicle in Fact and Fiction, was published by W. W. Norton in April. Annie Dillard called his book a “masterful literary debut,” while The New Republic dubbed it “one of the weirdest books I have ever read… a greatly entertaining and extremely funny book.”

Tamler Sommers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Houston and an interviewer for The Believer. Ian McEwan called his collection of interviews, A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain, “an intellectual feast, completely engrossing.”

Teleportal 5
feat. Elizabeth Crane, Jake Silverstein,
Tamler Sommers, and Rattapallax
Tuesday, June 1, 8pm
Hotel San Jose
1316 S. Congress Ave.
Austin, TX

Teleportal 4: Fusebox
Apr 15 10

As part of this month’s Fusebox Festival, Monofonus presents the fourth installment of Austin’s most multimedia reading series. If you love reading but hate readings, fear not: this is literature at its most laid-back. This month’s Teleportal features a live reading by local fiction writer Amelia Gray, an interactive performance by blackout poet Austin Kleon, and a teleportal reading by Jon Cotner and Alex Karpovsky from Cotner and Andy Fitch’s Ten Walks/Two Talks. As always, there will be a special musical guest and a pop-up shop with selections from Domy Books.

Amelia Gray‘s writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, DIAGRAM, and Caketrain, among others. She is the author of AM/PM, published by Featherproof Books, and Museum of the Weird, due August 2010 through Fiction Collective 2.

Austin Kleon is a writer, cartoonist, and web designer. He’s best known for his Newspaper Blackout Poems — poetry made by redacting words from newspaper articles with a permanent marker. His first book, Newspaper Blackout, was published by Harper Perennial this month.

Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch are the authors of Ten Walks/Two Talks (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). Cotner lives in New York City. Fitch is an assistant professor in the University of Wyoming’s MFA Program.

Teleportal 4

8pm, April 27,

Hotel San Jose

1316 S. Congress Ave

Austin, TX

Ralph White Record Release Next Tuesday!
Apr 08 10

Join us at 8pm next Tuesday, April 13, at the United States Art Authority for the release of Ralph White’s new album, The Mongrel’s Hoard. Thor Harris (Swans, Shearwater) joins Ralph onstage, and John Wesley Coleman Enterprise and His Dog opens. Check out Audra Schroeder’s review of the album for The Austin Chronicle.

11 Songs for 11 Videos!
Mar 23 10

Hey, we’re thisclose to finishing an awesome music/video project, and you can help! Check out the trailer below, and head over to our Kickstarter to find out how!

Over The Hill – Trailer for Video Album from Monofonus Press on Vimeo.