Chris Molnar | |
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| Occupation | Writer, editor, filmmaker and publisher |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction, criticism |
| Notable works | Unpublishable (2020) |
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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] .