"Being alive is just microdosing death."
Collected works from the notorious Brooklyn reading series, from
notable and emerging writers alike.
A famed underground reading series at POWERHOUSE Arena in Brooklyn,
organized by Chris Molnar and Etan Nechin, Unpublishable draws
hundreds of devotees eager to hear from authors known and unknown as
they share their most unusual, unexpected and unpublishable work.
It is a home and meeting place for "writing that excites you, that
scares you, things that you delete from your browser history. The piece
you can't submit but can't stop thinking about either, burning a hole in
the bottom of your desk drawer. Writing from any genre that is
uncharacteristic, outré, or offending of sensibilities, that is
impossible to place or be published in some fashion."
Writers from a range of cliques and communities participate, giving
striking and unusual performances. Each event includes a chapbook of
pieces read, and this anthology collects them together for the first
time. Unpublishable has now become Archways, an even more hotly
attended reading series which is the lifeblood of this imprint, and the
barrier-defying ethos it represents is a critical part of Archway
Editions' DNA.
Contributors include Mary Boo Anderson, Daphne Palasi Andreades,
Steve Anwyll, Hratch Arbach, Arash Azizi, James Cañon, Nifath Karim
Chowdhury, Jessica Denzer, Naomi Falk, John Farris, Jameson Fitzpatrick,
Caitlin Forst, Jean Kyoung Frazier, Chris Gonzalez, Evan Gorzeman, Mina
Hamedi, Brent Kite, Jason Koo, Noah LeBien, Anya Lewis-Meeks, Chris
Molnar, Etan Nechin, Nicodemus Nicoludis, Kate Olsson, Erin Taylor, and
Joanna C. Valente.
