Chris Molnar

Chris Molnar is a writer, editor, filmmaker and publisher^[1]. He is the co-founder of The Writer's Block^[2] bookstore in Las Vegas, and of Archway Editions^[3], the literary imprint of powerHouse Books distributed by Simon & Schuster.^[4]

A graduate of Calvin College^[5] with an MFA from Columbia University,^[6] Molnar has written for The Believer^[7], cokemachineglow^[8], Los Angeles Review of Books,^[9] BOMB,^[10] Interview^[11], The Shadow,^[12], Eddie Huang's^[13] The Places Review^[14] and Vol. 1 Brooklyn^[15], among others. Prior to The Writer's Block, he worked with the other co-founders as store manager at 826NYC/The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.^[16][17] A longtime resident of Bullet Space, the artists' collective and former squat in the East Village,^[18] he has also written texts for the nearby Ki Smith Gallery,^[19][20] and curated for the literary KGB Bar.^[21]

Molnar's published work includes editing the anthologies Unpublishable^[22] and Archways 1, which feature authors such as Naomi Falk, James Cañón, Jean Kyoung Frazier, John Farris, and Cyrée Jarelle Johnson - as well as fiction in Unpublishable and NDA: An Autofiction Anthology^[23]. In 2025 he was co-editor on a full volume of the last poems of John Farris^[24][25].

• Unpublishable (2020). Archway Editions ISBN 978-1576879719
• Archways 1 (2023). Archway Editions ISBN 978-1576879757
• Last Poems by John Farris (2025). Archway Editions ISBN 978-1648230509

• Unpublishable (2020). Archway Editions ISBN 978-1576879719 "End of time" from Hellscape
• NDA: An Autofiction Anthology (2022). Archway Editions ISBN 978-1576879931 "Radio Cure" from Hellscape

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