inseparable assembly Reading Room Collection

Wendy’s Subway, Reading and Writing in Tempo, 2025. Program view, The Kitchen at Westbeth, New York, Loft, July 11, 2024. Photo by Rachel Keane. Courtesy of The Kitchen.

About the reading room

Wendy’s Subway presents inseparable assembly, a reading room that invites shared study, reflection, and gathering. Envisioning the reading room as a space of social choreography, inseparable assembly iterates across a selection of titles centering performative, improvisational, and pedagogical practices; and citations and fragments that encourage self-guided movement and act as offerings or prompts for writing and annotation. 

inseparable assembly was organized on the occasion of The School for Temporary Liveness, Vol. 4 at The Kitchen at Westbeth. STL reimagines performance through the poetic frame of a school. STL asks: What if we approach performances as invitations to enter into study? Inversely, if we imagine the whole operation of a school as a performance, how does that change the ways we teach and learn, or what we think of as knowledge?

Learn more here. 

Wendy's Subway inseperable assembly reading room poster, 2025. Design by Claire Zhang.

Reading Room Collection

Being in the Negative
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-rahme
New York/Palestine: Bilna'es, 2025 

The Arab Apocalypse
Etel Adnan, trans. from the French by the author
San Francisco, CA: The Post-Apollo Press, 2020 [1989]

Intention of Return نية العودة/Relatives of Estrangement گرايب الغربة
Yusseral Obaidi
Published by the artist, 2021

The light through the shards
Alia Al-Sabi and Amany Khalifa
New York/Palestine: Bilna'es, 2025

Against the structural weight of catastrophe 
Laura Al-Tibi and Amr Amer
New York/Palestine: Bilna'es, 2025

Language Arts
Justin Allen
Brooklyn, NY: Wendy's Subway, 2024

ABC: A Lesson in History
Lara Baladi
Mexico City: Gato Negro Ediciones, 2023

“Realizing the Dream of a Black University,” & Other Writings (Parts I & II)
Toni Cade Bambara
New York: Lost & Found, 2017

The Odd Years
Morgan Bassichis
Brooklyn, NY: Wendy’s Subway, 2020

Please Add to This List: Teaching Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets & Experiments
Katy Bohinc, ed. 
New York: Tender Buttons Press, 2014

Free Jazz Communism
Sezgin Boynik, ed. 
Helsinki: RAB-RAB Press, 2024

Black Ecologies
Imani Jacqueline Brown, ed.
MARCH, 2021

We have delivered ourselves from the tonal: of, towards, on, for Julius Eastman
Federica Bueti, Antonia Alampi, and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, eds.
Berlin: SAVVY Contemporary and Archive Books, 2020

ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness
CAConrad
Seattle: Wave Books, 2014

Listening to Images
Tina Campt 
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017

CHOREO_DRIFT
Cristina Caprioli
Slought, 2014

Dances of Time and Tenderness
Julian Carter
New York: Nightboat, 2024

For Zitkála-Šá
Raven Chacon 
Toronto: Art Metropole; Los Angeles: New Documents, 2022

Things I'm afraid of right now
Patty Chang
Brooklyn, NY: Wendy’s Subway/BAM, 2018

Dr. Satan's Echo Chamber: Reggae, Technology and the Diaspora Process 
Louis Chude-Sokei
Seoul: Mediabus, 2022

Temporal Territories: An Anthology on Indigenous Experimental Cinema
COUSIN Collective, ed.
Brooklyn: Light Industry, 2025

DISSS-CO (A Fragment)
Douglas Crimp
Long Island City: Greater New York, 2015

Carriage
Matty Davis and Ben Gould
Brooklyn, NY: Wendy’s Subway; Pittsburgh, PA: Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University, 2019

Weather Report
Kerry Downey and Joanna Seitz
Brooklyn, NY: Wendy’s Subway/BAM, 2018

TwERK
LaTasha Nevada Diggs
Brooklyn: Belladonna, 2013

La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror
Ntone Edjabe
Vlaeberg, South Africa: Chimurenga, 2023

How to Disappear
Haytham El-Wardany
Cairo/Berlin: kayfa ta, 2025

The Clearing
JJJJJerome Ellis 
Brooklyn: Wendy’s Subway, 2021

SSS: How to imitate the sound of the sore using two hands and a carpet
Cevdet Erek
Cairo/Berlin: kayfa ta, 2017

Lettermen 
Kevin Jerome Everson
Brooklyn: Wendy’s Subway, 2018 

How to remember your dreams
Amr Ezzat
Cairo/Berlin: kayfa ta, 2017

Unpayable Debt
Denise Ferreira da Silva
London: Sternberg, 2022

Close Reading as Forestry
Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves
Brooklyn: Belladonna, 2017

An echo in search of its shadow
Haitham Haddad & Adam HajYahia
New York/Palestine: Bilna'es, 2025 

Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural Work
Kimi Malka Hanauer and Lu Zhang, eds. 
Baltimore: Press Press/The Institute for Expanded Research, 2020

Under the glare of the moon
Adam HajYahia and Haitham Haddad
New York/Palestine: Bilna'es, 2023

Rehearsing Solidarity: Learning from Mutual Aid
Mark Anthony Hernandez-Motaghy
Thick Press, 2023

MAAFA
Harmony Holiday 
New York: Fence Books, 2022

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
bell hooks
New York: Routledge, 1994

Dancehall Queen: Exotic Subversion / Subversión Erótica
Donna P. Hope and Carla Lamoyi, eds. 
Mexico City: Fiebre Ediciones, 2023

Denizens of Hell
Sky Hopinka
New York: Inpatient Press, 2024

Perfidia
Sky Hopinka
Brooklyn: Wendy’s Subway, 2020

Mucus in my Pineal Gland
Juliana Huxtable 
New York: Capricious / Wonder, 2017

My Black Death
Arthur Jaffa
Hudson, NY: Publication Studio Hudson, 2015

June Jordan, Life Studies 1966-1976
June Jordan
New York: Lost & Found, 2017

Jagged Little Virus: When HIV Is Free from Suffering
Ted Kerr 
Brooklyn: Belladonna, 2016

Black Body Amnesia: Poems and Other Speech Acts
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, ed. Dahlia Li
Brooklyn, NY: Wendy’s Subway, 2022

Duets: Kia LaBeija & Julie Tolentino in Conversation
Kia LaBeija and Julie Tolentino
New York: Visual AIDS, 2018

"I teach myself in outline": Notes, Journals, Syllabi, & an Excerpt from Deotha
Audre Lorde
New York: Lost & Found, 2017

Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music
Matthew Lyons and Debra Singer, eds. 
New York: The Kitchen, 2007

How to maneuver: Shapeshifting texts and other publishing tactics
Maha Maamoun and Ala Younis, eds. 
Cairo/Berlin: kayfa ta, 2021

Beige Pursuit
Sara Magenheimer
Brooklyn, NY: Wendy’s Subway, 2019

Black Sunlight
Dambudzo Marechera
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024 [1980]

Sex as Care and Other Viral Poems
Isadora Neves Marques 
Lisbon: Pântano Books, 2020

Abu Jildeh and Al-Armeet 
Ma'touq Collective
Brooklyn: Wendy’s Subway and Bilna’es, 2023

Tender Noted
Shala Miller
Brooklyn, NY: Wendy’s Subway, 2022

The Book of Na
Na Mira
Brooklyn, NY: Wendy's Subway, 2022

All Incomplete
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney
Autonomedia/Minor Compositions, 2020 [2013] 

Dafne Phono
Nour Mobarak
Brooklyn, NY: Wendy's Subway, 2024

The Immeasurable Want of Light
Daaimah Mubashshir
Brooklyn: 3 Hole Press, 2018

The Sense of Brown
José Esteban Muñoz
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020 

Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats
Tinashe Mushakavanhu and Nontsikelelo Mutiti, eds. 
Black Chalk and Co., 2019 

Texture Notes
Sawako Nakayasu
Portland: Letter Machine Editions, 2010

Studies from the Bottom Up: Perspectives on Tolstoy College at the University at Buffalo 1969–1985
Julie Niemi, ed.
Oslo: The Ventriloquist Press, 2017

Quantum Listening 
Pauline Oliveros
London: Spiral House, 2024 

Automatic Sound Drawings
Caroline Partamian
Published by the artist, 2019

Dolce Still Criollo: Border Theatrics
Christopher Rey Perez, ed. 
Dolce Still Criollo, 2021

Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time
Rasheedah Phillips
AK Press, 2025

Black Aliveness, Or a Poetics of Being 
Kevin Quashie 
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021 

Towards a Stateless Cinema
Miko Revereza
Parañaque City, Philippines: Hardworking Goodlooking, 2019

Revolution: A Reader
Lisa Roberston and Matthew Stadler, ed.
Annotated by David Brazil 
Paris: Paraguay Press/Portland: Publication Studio, 2015

vs. Interpretation: An Anthology on Improvisation, Vol. 1
David Rothenberg, ed. 
Prague: Nadace Agosto Foundation; in collaboration Ondrej Dolazal and Pixl-e Publishing 2015

O Quilombismo Reader
Olga Schubert and Eric Otieno Sumba, eds.
Berlin: Archive Books/Haus der Kultuen der Welt, 2023

Alt-Text as Poetry Workbook
Finnegan Shannon and Bojana Coklyat
Published by the artists, 2020

An Open Anthology of Afro-French Songs
Aïda Sidhoum, ed.
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: CCS Bard, 2024

Volcano Manifesto 
Cauleen Smith
Houston: F Magazine, 2022

C.R.E.A.M.
Sable Elyse Smith
Brooklyn, NY: Wendy’s Subway/BAM, 2018

Learning with Palestine 
The Funambulist
Paris: The Funambulist, 2020

Roots to Fruits, no. 1, Ghanaian Highlife
Mirelle van Tulder and Daniel Senior Durán, eds.
Arnheim, Netherlands: Werkplaats Typografie, 2022

Album
Mariana Valencia
Brooklyn, NY: Wendy’s Subway, 2019

a day pulls down the sky / a filament in gold leaf
Asiya Wadud and Okwui Okpokwasili
Brooklyn: Belladonna, 2019

Three moments of a script that never was written but might have happened
Hu Wei
Beijing: Macaline Center of Art, 2023

Marking the Occasion
Tara Aisha Willis and Jaime Shearn Coan, eds. 
Brooklyn: Wendy's Subway, 2020

Carmelina: Figures
Ronaldo V. Wilson
Brooklyn, NY: Wendy’s Subway, 2021

No Humans Involved
Sylvia Wynter
Hudson: Publication Studio Hudson, 2015

Dance in Herland 她乡舞曲 
Luka Yuanyuan Yang
te magazine, 2025

sex & place vol. 1
Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen
Self-published, 2024

sex & place vol. 2
Andrea Zavala Folache and Adriano Wilfert Jensen
Self-published, 2024

Run O' The River / Bitter Medicine
Linda Zeb Hang and Keith Graham
Saratoga: Sming Sming Books, 2024

Art for the Faith Hearted: Dispatches from an experimental and faith-centered art education programme
Birmingham, UK: Print and Matter, 2023

FLOOD: Ideas for Writing about Landscape
London: FIELDNOTES, 2024

ZONING: Ideas for Writing About Place & Space
London: FIELDNOTES, 2024