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kitchenraids — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:09:45 +0000

Hensley House now has a store where you can buy all our wares, including Monolith, Abstract Series and East Sound. The store is secure and 24/7 accessible. If you have any questions, send them to monolith.magazine@gmail.com. More coming soon!

NOW AVAILABLE:

Fourth in the Abstract Series

East Sound 12″

Monolith 1 and 2

COMING PRONTO:

Monolith Magazine Issue 3!

Two collections of poetry!

1/5/2011 Lowtide

kitchenraids — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:32:08 +0000

Another peek into the Hensley House special edition: EAST SOUND 12″

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EAST SOUND 12″ // ABSTRACT SERIES ISSUE 3

kitchenraids — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:13:39 +0000

HENSLEY HOUSE/MONOLITH MAGAZINE PRESENTS: East Sound 12″
East Sound is the first one-sided vinyl production from the maker(s) of Monolith Magazine and The Abstract Series. Environmental recordings from the far northeast. This record is laced with delicate and robust cadences, soothing, horrifying, outcast in its hidden forgottenness. These are the diamonds in the rough, from a recorder maxed out on ocean sounds, seagull cries, malfunctioning machines, quiet haunting lulls, rainstorms, a cautious harbor warning the seafarers. A record for the contemplative adventurer, the armchair traveler, the restless, the seekers, those estranged from the sea, those familiar with the sea, the landlocked, the waterlogged, the masses hungry for respite. This record is multi-purpose, beneficial to mind expansion exercises. Close eyes, sit still with muscles relaxed, turn the volume up to its maximum capacity, smell the salty northern sea air, feel the sand soft and grainy underneath you. Let the lost dreams return to you. //// 12″ play at any speed, 8 tracks, locked groove. Unique handmade covers: Duotone paper, Maine autumn leaves, lacquer, glue, pencil, stitching. Edition of 200. Signed and numbered. $18 ppd. For secure Paypal go here.

MONOLITH MAGAZINE PRESENTS: The Abstract Series Issue 3
The Abstract Series has completed the third issue in a series of private amateur cosmos cartographer outlines, diagrams, and sketches. What is hinted at in these pages is a vague decoding of the outer limits, a daily struggle with the unknown, a mind lost in the surrealist activities of alien terrain. Warning to the viewer: do not use these cosmos atlases as actual maps – you will get lost. Our cartographer, though familiar and comfortable with her otherworldly surroundings, is acquainting with and reporting from a universe (multiverse?) of different dimensions. No longitude/latitude in other words. Forget lightyears, gravity, certainly units of measurement, even cellular makeup. Our cosmos cartographer is preparing us for a deeper dive, the progression in her series has been strange and luminous, although symbiotically murky. The unknown is funny like that. //// 8.5″x11″ ten original drawings, handpainted covers, acrylics, stitched binding, signed and numbered edition of 40. First 20 accompanied by hand selected soundtrack. $8 ppd. For secure Paypal go here.

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MONOLITH MAGAZINE ABSTRACT SERIES ISSUE 002

kitchenraids — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:29:55 +0000

MONOLITH MAGAZINE PRESENTS:

Abstract Series Issue 2

The second round of collected data from the amateur cartographer of the cosmos. This issue, unlike the first, features opposites, then the parallel conjectures, outlined by the minute fragments between darkened points in space, which are also the contents of the unconscious. The process of succumbing to such alien, confusing terrain led to these, the contents of the collection, portraits of the unfathomable spectres of some mysterious and haunted otherworld (which are portraits of the inner world, thus an interexistence between space and the mind). What emerges is a slow processional toward a union between both the random and the pure emotion and gut of whatever space/mind matter, which creates a map toward the meaning which is the looming undercurrent found in anything. Collection of ten drawings. Individually stitched covers, stitched binding. 8.5″x11″, black and white. Numbered and signed edition of 20. Artist’s personally selected musical soundtrack. $15 ppd. Paypal link below. Email for other payment options. monolith.magazine@gmail.com.

MONOLITH MAGAZINE PRESENTS: The Abstract Series Issue 2

kitchenraids — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:59:03 +0000

MONOLITH MAGAZINE PRESENTS:

Abstract Series Issue 2

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MONOLITH MAGAZINE PRESENTS: The Abstract Series Issue 1

kitchenraids — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:08:51 +0000

From Hensley House comes a Monolith Magazine feature:
The Abstract Series Issue 1 features ten drawings by Kathleen Hensley, all completed in mixed settings, which may account for the geometrically intricate collage of patterns. It’s akin to the scales in a musical composition, more specifically, the visual tracings of Anthony Braxton’s raw mental state. What the viewer will find here is a map to the unconscious: you will not, however, find a trace of directions. This is less a guidebook for the subconscious dwellers than it is the raw collected data from an amateur cartographer of the cosmos. Signed and numbered edition of 20. 8 1/2″x11″, ten pages, stitched binding, hand-painted covers, with artist’s hand-selected soundtrack, sealed. $10 ppd. Paypal to monolith.magazine@gmail.com or go to this secure Paypal link.

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ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR MM3: BORDERS

kitchenraids — Sun, 01 May 2011 21:52:23 +0000

Roberto Bolaño said the Spanish language was his homeland. James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus declares in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, “I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use–silence, exile, and cunning.” Later, in Ulysses, Dedalus deduces to Leopold Bloom, “I suspect that Ireland must be important because it belongs to me.”

Monolith Magazine 3: BORDERS

Accepting submissions of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. No work is to exceed 3,000 words.

MONOLITH MAGAZINE PRESENTS ISSUE #2 (FLOATING)

kitchenraids — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:26:26 +0000

Monolith Magazine #2 (Floating)

Monolith Magazine #2 in final state

Orderable April 1st. No joke. Tell your friends.

Antenen Abridged Part 2 List

kitchenraids — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:36:03 +0000

Monolith contributor, writer, reader, librarian, and all around strange good friend, Don Antenen, gave me a second list of books to post. I couldn’t resist. His first list for the website is a mandatory, dreamy reading list for any lit buff to sink their teeth into. This is the P.S. list. Otherwise, Monolith news pending as a snowstorm blows along the east coast, home of the MM headquarters.

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira – Aira is a ridiculously prolific writer from Argentina. This is one of the few novels in which he doesn’t clone Carlos Fuentes, if that gives you some idea of what you’re getting into.

A Heaven of Others by Joshua Cohen – A Jewish boy in Israel is blown up by a suicide bomber and finds himself in Muslim heaven. Yes.

Motorman by David Ohle – This is a gross little book. I was more attached to Moldenke than any character I’ve read.

Richard Yates by Tao Lin – Cheesebeast.

Osama Van Halen by Michael Muhammad Knight – This is the sequel to Knight’s classic ‘The Taqwacores’. Muslim punks vs. the world.

The Unseen by Nanni Balestrini – Written entirely without punctuation, and it works.

No Aloha by Deran Ludd – A group of teenage Sumo wrestling fans navigate Colorado after the end of the theocracy and beginning of the civil war. Most of the midwest is a giant hogfarm.

Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky – Jealousy, sex, crime, international travel, drunken baths with children.

Daniel Levin Becker

kitchenraids — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:05:51 +0000

Daniel’s piece “Index of First Lines” appeared in the first Monolith. I’m a big fan of Daniel Levin Becker. Corresponding with him has been, literally, one of my recent great pleasures. He has a smooth, translucent humor that could for some be imperceptible, but once “in the know” regarding his interests and biography, one can trace his influences quite visibly to the Oulipo (who are playful literary and mathematical experimentalists, at least that’s how I’ve felt ever since reading A Void by Perec and Zazie by Queneau – Becker has had direct experience with a handful from this literary gang during his studies in France). Beyond Daniel’s ability to make me laugh at his casual e-letter quips, his writing is conversationally ambrosial. Simply put, I feel decadent reading his work, or like I’m eating a rich meal (in a French way, not in an American way).

Below are some bits that inspired Daniel’s “Index of First Lines,” which was featured in the first issue of Monolith.

Michelle Grangaud, Geste

D.B. Wyndham Lewis & Charles Lee, eds., The Stuffed Owl

Jean-Jacques Sempé, Ames sœurs

Augusto Monterroso, Complete Works and Other Stories

Julio Cortázar, “Letter to a Young Lady in Paris”

“We weren’t really lovers at that moment, just grammarians.”

Lydia Davis, “Kafka Cooks Dinner”

“I have a story for you. Which reminds me–I mean putting it like this reminds me–of the days when we wrote our first udder-warm bubbling verse, and all things, a rose, a puddle, a lighted window, cried out to us: ‘I’m a rhyme!’ Yes, this is a most useful universe.”

Vladimir Nabokov, “That in Aleppo Once…”

“Seeing Rembrandt’s ox-sides in the meat case at the supermarket marked him as unfit for life.”

Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations

“Zooey frowned, but academically.”

J.D. Salinger, “Zooey”

“A poem should be a ringing phone inside a solid, crystal cube.”

Christian Bök

More Beckerness at http://www.dinnerlunchbreakfast.com/