Events
Book Launch: The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews by Rossi in conversation with Charmaine Broad
Rossi – Acclaimed NYC chef and Hungarian Jewish feminist – pens wild new coming-out memoir !
Book Launch: Life as We Know it (Can Be) by Bill Weir in conversation with Dan Harris
Award-winning journalist and CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir takes readers through time and around our changing world to confront the biggest threats to life as we know it.
Book Launch: Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories by Elijah Wald in conversation with Jay Smooth
A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz.
Book Launch: The Sky Was Ours by Joe Fassler in conversation with Asha Thanki
The Sky Was Ours is a powerful and imaginative debut that explores the question: If you had access to technology that allowed you to escape the confines of your life, would you use it?
Book Launch: First Light by Liz Kerin in Conv. w/ Nat Cassidy and Rachel Harrison
First Light, the riveting sequel to Liz Kerin’s Night’s Edge, is about seizing a brighter future by confronting the shadows of our past.
Book Launch: But What Will People Say? by Sahaj Kohli in conversation with Sohla El Waylly
A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book rethinking traditional therapy and self-care, creating much-needed space for those left out of the narrative.
Book Launch: Early Sobrieties by Michael Deagler in conversation with Paul Lisicky @ powerHouse on 8th
Like a sober, millennial Jesus’ Son, Michael Deagler’s debut novel is the poignant confession of a recovering addict adrift in the fragmenting landscape of America’s middle class.
Book Launch: Loneliness and Company by Charlee Dyroff in conversation with Molly McGhee
A timely, beautifully observed debut novel set in near future New York about a young woman who finds herself tangled in a secret Government project combating loneliness.
Book Launch: Gay Heaven Is A Dance Floor but I Can't Relax by charles theonia
Join us for the launch of the latest book from our very own ARCHWAY EDITIONS!
Book Launch: Their Divine Fires by Wendy Chen in conversation with Alexander Sammartino
A captivating and intimate debut novel interwoven with folktale and myth, Wendy Chen’s Their Divine Fires tells the story of the love affairs of three generations of Chinese women across one hundred years of revolutions both political and personal.
Book Launch: Lo-Life: The Autobiography of Rack-Lo with Rack-Lo and Dallas Penn
New York City legend Rack-Lo will be in conversation with Dallas Penn for a celebration of powerHouse Books’ latest release “Lo-Life: The Autobiography of Rack-Lo”
Book Launch: Down with the System by Serj Tankian in conversation with Eric Bogosian
An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written debut memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band, System Of A Down, Serj Tankian.
Book Launch: Fresh Failure by John Tottenham
The exciting launch for the long awaited new collection from “our preeminent contemporary poète maudit.”
Book Talk/Meet and Greet: I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt by Madeleine Pendleton
Millennials and Gen Zers like Madeline are facing an unprecedented financial reality: Stagnant wages, skyrocketing housing costs, a student debt crisis. I Survived Capitalism is essential reading for anyone searching for hope and stability in an unjust world.
Book Launch: Perfume & Pain by Anna Dorn
Join POWERHOUSE Arena for a celebration of Perfume & Pain by Anna Dorn
Book Launch: Plat by Lindsey Webb in conversation with Emily Skillings
Celebrate the launch of Archway Editions’ author Lindsey Webb’s Plat!
Book Launch: Family Values: Kurt, Courtney, & Frances Bean with Guzman and Michael Azerrad
Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love were notorious for representing the opposite of “Family Values.” To reframe their notoriety, they consented to a rare photoshoot for Spin magazine with their newborn, Frances Bean. Only 5 images were originally published; the rest of the photoshoot is seen here for the first time. This is Family Values.
Book Launch: Just Go: A Globe-Trotting Guide to Travel Like an Expert, Connect Like a Local, and Live the Adventure of a Lifetime by Drew Binsky
A GLOBE-TROTTING GUIDE TO TRAVEL LIKE AN EXPERT, CONNECT LIKE A LOCAL, AND LIVE THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME.
Book Launch: The New York Pigeon (2nd Ed) by Andrew Garn in convo w/ Rita MacMahon + Catherine Quayle
Come celebrate Pigeon Appreciation Day, the date we celebrate to show our love, admiration, and respect to the harmonious bird, with the launch of The New York Pigeon.
Book Launch: The Myth of Making It by Samhita Mukhopadhyay
A call to action to redefine and reimagine work as we know it, The Myth of Making It is a field guide and manifesto for all of us who are tired, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of hustle culture.
Book Launch: Desperately Seeking Something by Susan Seidelman
Join us for the launch of Susan Seidelman’s memoir!
Book Launch: Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true.
Book Launch: Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • MEET THE MILANIS. FAST-FOOD HEIRESSES, L.A. ROYALTY, AND YOUR NEWEST REALITY TV OBSESSION.
Book Launch: Gospel of a Whole Sun by Katerina Jeng
From community activist and poet Katerina Jeng, a lyric exploration of the author’s journey back to her voice, her power, and the truest version of herself.
Book Launch: Free the Land: How We Can Fight Poverty and Climate Chaos by Audrea Lim
An eye-opening examination of how treating land as a source of profit has a massive impact on racial inequality and the housing, gentrification, and environmental crises.
Book Launch: Our Marvelous Dying by Anna DeForest in conversation with Amy Hempel
Palliative-care physician and award-winning author Anna DeForest returns with an ode to life and to death, and the ways we care for ourselves and others on our long, marvelous walk toward the end.
Book Launch: Mystery Lights by Lena Valencia in conversation with Rachel Lyon
POWERHOUSE Arena is excited to host the book launch for Mystery Lights by Lena Valencia!
Book Launch: I Want You More by Swan Huntley in Conversation w/ Elizabeth Greenwood
When ghostwriter Zara becomes entwined with celebrity chef client, Jane Bailey, she starts to see the side Jane keeps hidden from the cameras and gets stuck in a plot she never saw coming.
Book Launch: A New Day by Sue Mell in conversation with Megan Staffel
Moody, elegiac, and full of longing, with ricocheting themes of desire and loss, these stories are steeped in the highs and lows inherent in the pursuit of love and creative expression.
Photos from recent events
Book Talk: Big Swiss by Jen BeaginBook Launch: Molly by Blake Butler in conversation with Lynne Tillman
Book Launch: Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts by Claire Donato in conversation with Molly Soda, plus additional readings from Abigail Greene and Jaylen Strong and incidental music by Zach Phillips (Fievel is Glauque, Blanche Blanche Blanche)
Book Launch: The Awesome Game by Dave Hill in conversation with Mike Sacks
Book Talk: A Walk Across Dirty Water and Straight Into Murderer’s Row: A Memoir by Eugene S. Robinson in conversation with Lydia Lunch
Book Launch: Continuum by Ivanna Baranova w/ Imogen Xtian Smith and Wendy Lotterman
Book Launch: Bluebeard’s Castle by Anna Biller in conversation with Mina Hamedi
Book Launch and Performance: Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques by Fancy Feast
Book Launch: Gentle Chaos by Tyler Gaca a.k.a. Ghosthoney in conversation with Anna Marie Tendler
Book Launch: Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection by Jeremy Nobel MD in conversation with Danielle Ofri
The Shining by Dorothea Lasky in reading and conversation with Heidi Julavits
Book Launch: Wonder Boy by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans