Chris Molnar
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Chris Molnar is a writer, editor, filmmaker and publisher. He is co-founder of The Writer's Block bookstore in Las Vegas, and of Archway Editions, the literary imprint of powerHouse Books distributed by Simon & Schuster.
Work
A graduate of Calvin College with an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, Molnar has written for The Believer, cokemachineglow, Los Angeles Review of Books, Cleveland Review of Books, BOMB, Interview, The Shadow, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 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. A longtime resident of Bullet Space, the artists' collective and former squat in the East Village, he has also written texts for the nearby Ki Smith Gallery, and curated for the literary KGB Bar.
Molnar's published work includes editing the anthologies Unpublishable and Archways 1, which feature authors such as Naomi Falk, James Cañón, Jean Kyoung Frazier, Jason Koo, and Cyrée Jarelle Johnson - as well as fiction in NDA: An Autofiction Anthology. In 2025 he was co-editor on a full volume of the last poems of John Farris.
Bibliography
Edited volumes
- 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
Anthologies
- 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