Chris Molnar is co-founder and publisher of Archway Editions, as well as co-founder of the Writer’s Block bookshop in Las Vegas.

Chris Molnar

Every Ship Is a Passenger Too: On Publishing Today

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse

Someone Always Takes Me Home: On Howard Fishman’s “To Anyone Who Ever Asks”

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds." — Dizzy Gillespie

Music

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

Biography &amp; Autobiography

Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

No Monuments: On Ian Penman’s “Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

Addison Richley is the founder of des pair books, a bookstore, gallery, and small press that opened its doors in Echo Park in spring 2021. This past fall, the bookstore partnered with Jeffrey Deitch on a second location within the gallery.

Addison Richley

Anthony Strain has been a bookseller and curator at The Last Bookstore for a long time. He writes anonymously for free, and under his own name for the right price.

Anthony Strain

Erin K Drew is an artist and researcher newly based in Los Angeles. She sells books and organizes discursive literary events under the name Abba Zaba Books.

Erin K Drew

Lance Morgan is a copywriter and former bookseller living in East L.A. Single and emotionally unavailable, but in a hot way!

Lance Morgan

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