This powerful play, originally produced at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, comprehensively dismantles the phenomenon of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton. Reed uses the musical's crimes against history to insist on a radical, cleareyed way of looking at our past and ourselves. Both durable and timely, this goes beyond mere corrective - it is a meticulously researched rebuttal, an absorbing drama, and brilliant rallying cry for justice.

The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda

Literature & Fiction

Reed, Ishmaël

Dramas & Plays

Archway Editions

An unusually assured debut, ACID VIRGA is a memoir in verse cutting between a vivid Southwest upbringing and modern O'Hara hustle in New York City, deeply and seriously reckoning with the psychedelic heritage of religion and the psychological clarity of chemical consciousness. It is both thrillingly propulsive and dense enough to read again and again, always offering up something new, always a true and important record of our American lives as lived now - an endless and reliable ticker tape of the soul.

Acid Virga

Kruis, Gabriel

Poetry

Unpublishable was a reading series at POWERHOUSE Arena in Brooklyn, organised by Chris Molnar and Etan Nechin. They described it as a home for 'writing that excites you, that scares you, things that you delete from your browser history. Writing from any genre that is uncharacteristic, outre, or offending of sensibilities, that is impossible to place or be published in some fashion.' Writers from a range of cliques and communities participated, giving striking and unusual performances. Each event included a chapbook of pieces read, and this anthology collects them together for the first time.

Unpublishable

United States

“This book is fucking awesome. It’s my life’s story. I’m thirty-four but look twenty-one. Maybe twenty-two at the most. I live in Maryland. Please read it. I’m a writer, a songwriter, an artist. I do it all. I’m an artist of life. I’m an adventurer, I’m the president of my development. Read the memoir. You won’t be disappointed.”\nA self-published memoir of a Maryland thirty-something found by author Mike Sacks at a garage sale in 2019 and re-published here for the first time. The memoir is written by the struggling poet and novelist Noah B., who is embedded in the mind and lifestyle of a perversely unexceptional American asshole named Randy. Like Pale Fire if it were about a Danny McBride-style fuckup, the story is both unmoored from time and eerily prescient of our own—one so stupid and unbelievable that it requires a writer like Sacks to bring it to light.\n“If you don’t know who Mike Sacks is, well, you should. His writing is funnier than just about anyone’s and now he has a podcast that is excellent. I say Hooray for Mike Sacks and everything he stands for.” -David Sedaris\n“He’s the best kind of comedy writer; a bona fide weirdo with virtually no interest in satisfying anything other than his own personal obsessions.” -Andy Richter\n“Randy is a hilariously, unexpectedly poignant and eminently worthy addition to Sacks’ sociological/anthropological exploration of the American Jackass and his curious ways. Audacious and inspired.” -Nathan Rabin\n“The year's best memoir is about a man who shot a porno in a Baskin-Robbins.” -Vice\n“Randy does more to explain certain unexpected turns in this nation's political fate over the last couple of years than a bazillion think-pieces in the New York Times, Atlantic, New Yorker, MSNBC.” -John Colapinto (The New Yorker)\n“As the book’s description alludes, Randy is an experiment in memoir, biography, and, well, sheer insanity.” -Robobutt

Randy: The Full and Complete Unedited Biography and Memoir of the Amazing Life and Times of Randy S.!

Humor & Entertainment

Sacks, Mike

Humor

Stinker Lets Loose

First Reformed follows the Rev. Ernst Toller as his crisis of faith coincides with a recognition of looming environmental catastrophe. It is an uncompromising work that seamlessly synthesises a tribute to Bresson with a profound, existential meditation on the everexpanding devastation that humanity is spreading over the natural world. The crowning late period achievement for an undisputed legend of screenwriting, this is both a master class in concision, depth and emotional range, and a continually relevant work of activist import.

First Reformed

Schrader, Paul

Movies

Archways is the in-house reading series that takes place every few months at POWERHOUSE Arena, our bookstore in downtown Brooklyn across from the Manhattan Bridge archway.This anthology collects work from the first three readings, held in 2019 and 2020. Every event has a visual component, and we've shared some stills and photos from our incredible visual artists too. CONTRIBUTORS include: Rachel Allen, Phil Anderson, Brendan Burdzinski, Naomi Falk, Katie Foster, Andrew Gibeley, Ariel Francisco, Kelly Gallagher, Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Gabriel Kruis, Shayla Lawz, Etan Nechin, Kwame Opoku-Duku, Chunbum Park, Joseph Rathgeber, Nicholas Rys, Bud Smith, Andrea Stella, and Shy Watson.

Archways 1

Essays & Correspondence

The first collection of artwork by famed poet, critic and artist Alice Notley. These sketches, drawn on an iPad and first serialised on Notley's Twitter feed, are a fascinating window into an evolving practice, collages of flowers and poetry, the white space of digital creation and overlaid colors erupting from the page. With this collection, one of America's most influential living poets and artists continues to prove her worthiness of that title.

Runes and Chords

Arts & Photography

Notley, Alice

Individual Artists

Famous Hermits

Szymaszek, Stacy

The controversial new play from Ishmael Reed, Life Among the Aryans follows John Shaw and Michael Mulvaney, two modern MAGA white supremacists as they leech off their wives, take orders from grifting Leader Matthews, and plot a unique way around the encroaching societal progress they fear will leave them in the dust. Full of page-turning dialogue, unexpected twists and hilarious asides, this is the latest urgent must-read from the greatest living American writer. Originally performed at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Life Among the Aryans has only grown in relevance since.

Life Among the Aryans

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