Events

I Want My Hat Back – Jon Klassen, 2011
Caps For Sale – Esphyr Slobodkina 1940
Milo’s Hat Trick – Jon Agee, 2001
The Hat – Tomi Ungerer, 1970

Hi there, friends and families! Welcome one and all! It’s time for another Kids In The Cliff weekend storytime at The Wild Detectives! Have you ever heard of the snowman who came to life? The magic was all in the hat. In each of our stories this weekend, there’s something special about each of the hats, and calamity ensues when heads and hats get separated. A fun activity will follow, so come join in with us at The Wild Detectives’ cozy little house for fun stories this Sunday. See you in the kids’ section!

*Special note for parents: As usual, we’ll have related extra books on hand in case you are looking for other excellent picture books we recommend! Particular emphasis is placed on striking illustrations, great graphic design or standout writing. Titles may be brand new, old treasures, from home, our kids’ section or the local library, but they are always picked with love and a sense of adventure. If there’s a book you’d love, consider our ordering service!

Kids In The Cliff storytime at The Wild Detectives is every Sunday morning at 11. As people who’ve been there, we strive to select themes or titles that will be interesting enough to pique not only children’s, but also the attending adults’ curiosity. It’ll be about a 30-45 minute read each time with something different and fun for the kids–that’s going to be interesting; we can’t wait to see what they come up with.

All ages are welcome.

On Sunday mornings, bring your kids and infuse them with a love of reading.

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Kids In The Cliff is organized by Lanie DeLay, who has worked at Dallas Contemporary, the Dallas Public Library, Hamon Arts Library at SMU, at area preschools and the School For The Blind in Austin. She has written for Glasstire and Art&Seek, and she tutors children in early reading skills at Dealey Montessori. When she isn’t looking at art or reading with kids, she’s reading about art or looking for a new read.

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Hosted by Paul & Reverie Koniecki, Stone Soup Poetry Group Peer Workshop is a poetry critique group sponsored by The Writer’s Garret. We write and critique poetry of any genre. We meet at The Wild Detectives from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, on 4th Tuesdays of the month.

Pieces should be no more than 2 pages, double-spaced, in a readable font. Bring about 8 copies for distribution to the group. Group members are free to make notes on the copy for the poet’s consideration. During the session, we will have a group member read the piece aloud, then have the poet read the piece aloud. After this, the poem will be discussed by the group as if the poet were not there, like an editorial board; comments or questions are not directed to the poet. This encourages objective, honest, impersonal commentary and group interaction.

The author does not speak during the critique of their piece. After the critique is done, the author can interact, give feedback, ask/answer questions, etc. At the conclusion of the critique, all copies will be returned to the author. It is important to remember that this is a workshop format, not a performance. Come prepared to have your work critiqued. If you feel that a particular poem is finished, you may feel more comfortable saving that item for a public reading event.

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Ven a conocer Carlos Velázquez, el “enfant terrible” de las letras mexicanas, en la presentación de su libro de relatos, Despachador de Pollo Frito. Tendremos también como invitado especial a Eduardo Rabasa, autor de La suma de los ceros y Cinta negra, además de director editorial de Sexto Piso.

Despachador de pollo frito, quinto libro de relatos de Carlos Velázquez, nos lleva por una serie de protagonistas y entornos en donde la mentira y las triquiñuelas; el travestismo y la dipsomanía; el delirio y la enfermedad; la ruina y los desastres emocionales, configuran a través de su inconfundible prosa cáustica, sonora y veloz, un universo mordaz que termina siendo un espejo despiadado en el cual incluso el lector más escéptico se verá seducido y hechizado.

Con el peculiar estilo que lo caracteriza, el humor corrosivo del que ha hecho su sello personal, y ensayando nuevos registros, Carlos Velázquez engendra su quinto libro de relatos. Una mirada despiadada que se ve enriquecida por la madurez narrativa, producto de las más retorcidas obsesiones.

Carlos Velázquez es autor de los libros de cuentos Cuco Sánchez blues, La Biblia vaquera (Sexto Piso, 2011) y La marrana negra de la literatura rosa (Sexto Piso, 2010). Sus libros han sido elogiados unánimemente por la crítica nacional e internacional.

This event is done in collaboration with the Mexican Consulate in Dallas.

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Pepe Valdez Electric Trio (Album Release Party)

The Trio, lead by guitarist and composer Pepe Valdez, draws inspiration from various musical genres and styles to bring a fresh interpretation of instrumental improvised music to the table. Each show the trio plays is completely different to the previous one, and this night won’t be the exception. The Trio will present a night of all original material that is part of their debut album as well as new compositions and pieces that will be completely improvised on the spot.

$10

The trio is:

Lucas Reader – Bass
Chris Simms – Drums
Pepe Valdez – Guitar and composition.

The debut album is out for free on all of the streaming platforms. We have worked really hard to release our music for free and we really appreciate each one of you for listening to it.

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Our friends at Backyard Story Night are back in our backyard  this fall! If you’re a storyteller or you love to enjoy a good tale, Backyard Story Night is for you!

Submit your story here: https://forms.gle/6uJhRQVjpicKeBATA

The theme is, “Back in the Saddle”! With the relaunch of Backyard Story Night in Dallas, we’re asking you for your stories about retrying, relaunching, or restarting. This is open to interpretation for stories so feel free to get creative!

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Started in Austin, TX, Backyard Story Night is the brainchild of John Brewster and Meg Mattingly (Please note: Meg and John will not host this event). Now we’re experimenting with Dallas story telling events! The goal is simple: gather friends – and friends of friends – in a backyard to share real, unrehearsed stories. Please note: this event is ideal for 18+, as the stories have not been vetted or rehearsed.

Drinks and food will be available for purchase from The Wild Detectives. Also, parking is tight – we encourage walking, biking, Ubering, or carpooling!

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Writing Workshops Dallas Happy Hour at The Wild Detectives takes place on the first Tuesday of every month from 6PM – 8PM.

We’ll raffle off books, enjoy drink specials, and talk reading, writing, and everything in between. So come out if want to meet other writers in Dallas and talk shop. It doesn’t matter if you’re a current or former WWD student or if you’ve never head of Writing Workshops Dallas at all, we’d love for you to be part of the thriving literary community at the best bookstore in town.

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From Being Things, To Equalities In All

From Being Things, To Equalities In All is a sequence of 24 couplets (1 per page), the construction of which has been guided by syntactical, semantic and graphical constraint. The results are semi-concrete and utterly political — a language capable of acknowledging the degree to which it is both private refuge and public domain, and a language aware of its situation vis-a-vis history’s horizon.

Read more about The Operating Series 2019 Monthly Digital Chapbook Series here.

Joe Milazzo

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Please join us for a very special evening with Omaha influential singer songwriter Simon Joyner and Adam Ostrar!

About Simon Joyner

Simon Joyner is a renowned American singer-songwriter who first came
to prominence during the Lo-Fi movement of the early 90’s alongside
contemporaries mining similar territory like Will Oldham, Peter
Jefferies, the Mountain Goats, and Bill Callahan. Joyner
was championed early by the late British DJ, John Peel, who famously
played Joyner’s 1994 LP, “The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll”, start
to finish on one of his BBC programs, initially making Joyner more
well known overseas than in his own country. He is often referred to as one
of the forefathers of the Omaha music scene.

Following the mercurial path of heroes like Neil Young and Bob Dylan,
Joyner has been releasing literate and challenging albums
since the release of his first album, Room Temperature, in 1993. His
discography includes twenty-three full-length recordings, as well as numerous
singles and guest appearances. A book of his lyrics was released in
2016 under the title “Only Love Can Bring You Peace: Selected Lyrics
(1990-2014).” He tours the United States and Europe semi-regularly and
is the co-owner of the Grapefruit Records label.

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“Omaha has given us the reigning heir to Henry Miller’s dark emotional
mirror, Townes Van Zandt’s three-chord moan, and Lou Reed’s warehouse
minimalism: his name is Simon Joyner.” — Gillian Welch

“Pound for pound Simon Joyner is my favorite lyricist of all time. He
has shades of all the greats (Van Zandt, Cohen, Dylan) but exists in a
space all his own … He truly is an American songwriting treasure. It
is my hope that more people will discover his music and share in the
unique joy that it brings.” — Conor Oberst

“Simon’s always been a secret handshake amongst me and my peers. He’s
a pioneer. He’s helped pave the way for many people, myself included.
He’s an artist in its purest form–for his only concern is crafting a
perfect song–which he’s done time and time again.” —Kevin Morby

https://simonjoyner.bandcamp.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Joyner

About Adam Ostrar

Austin, TX songwriter Adam Ostrar used to live & perform in Chicago, fronting a couple of bands (Sonoi; Manishevitz) on the Jagjaguwar label. He’s currently a member of The Moles (led by Aussie indie legend Richard Davies) and the instrumental group The Boxhead Ensemble. His first solo record with Super Secret, “Brawls in the Briar,” came out in October 2017. His most recent album “The Worried Coat” was released in April and includes members of Califone and Hamilton Leithauser.

Over the years Ostrar’s records have been featured in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Mojo, Magnet, The Bluegrass Situation, and Brooklyn Vegan. He has toured the US and Europe extensively and supported a range of acts such as Wilco, Edith Frost, and The Mountain Goats.

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“Now, falling into our hands like a Honeycrisp from the highest branch, Austin-via-Chicago singer-songwriter Adam Ostrar (of Manishevitz — also formerly known as Adam Busch) is blowing an ochre-tinted gust of folksy sweetness on his new LP Brawls In The Briar. Pull the wool coat from your closet and ponder the downright poetic thinning of the treetops with the Bert Jansch-plays-Tropicália-flavored “Another Room,” —Tiny Mix Tapes

“Ostrar’s personal pantheon is inhabited by great guitarists and subtle pop architects, and he invokes them with a deft mixture of instant recognition and subtle revision. One song’s snare sound will remind you of J.J. Cale, and the quietly rushing chords of another manages to merge Nick Drake and Jim Croce so deftly that you can’t quite tell how he did it and the copyright lawyers will never figure out how to prove that he did.“—Dusted Magazine

“Now based in Austin, Ostrar has kept making his own unique music, including this year’s excellent The Worried Coat” – Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone “99 Best Songs of 1999”

“The record’s ten songs encompass the many things that have made Ostrar’s music with his old bands Manishevitz and Sonoi appealing: rustic acoustic picking, glowing brass fanfares, Eno-esque atmospherics, and power-pop waltzing. And he replaces the jittery qualities of his earlier work with a warm sense of wonder—it’s not only the most accomplished record of his career, it’s the most appealing”– Chicago Reader

website – http://www.adamostrar.com

Bandcamp – https://adamostrar.bandcamp.com

FB – https://www.facebook.com/adamostrar

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/adam_ostrar/

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Fink at The Wild Detectives | 2019 Solo North American Tour
Doors: 7p / Show: 8p

Tickets here.

Fin Greenall aka Fink started as a DJ/Producer before making guitar-based folk/blues/indie music. Growing up in Bristol’s blossoming 90’s scene, Greenall signed to legendary label Kickin’ Records in 1994 and subsequently signed with Ninja Tune in 1997, releasing the critically acclaimed Fresh Produce in 2000 and DJ’ing worldwide.

A renowned and prolific artist, Fink has worked with notable musicians, including Amy Winehouse. He wrote and recorded her earliest demos and songs, a fact revealed on her posthumous record Lioness. Fink’s Sort of Revolution featured a collaboration with John Legend on “Maker”, after Fink had co-written 2 tracks on Legend’s album Evolver, leading to 3 prestigious BMI awards.

In 2006, Fink became a band with the addition of Tim Thornton on drums and Guy Whittaker on bass, and recorded, engineered and produced Biscuits for Breakfast in his Brighton Loft. Distance and Time followed in 2007, produced by Andy Barlow (Lamb, U2), leading to numerous film and advertisement placements as well as extensive worldwide tours. Perfect Darkness (2011), produced by Billy Bush (Beck, Garbage), led to Fink’s invitation to perform with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. This concert was released as a live album in 2013, and the version of “Yesterday Was Hard On All Of Us” from the record was used by Ava DuVernay in her Oscar nominated film Selma. In the same year, Justin Vernon & Colin Stetson teamed together to remix “Warm Shadow,” which was later prominently featured in AMC’s The Walking Dead.

The studio album Hard Believer released in 2014, courtesy of Fink’s Ninja Tune sub-label R’COUP’D, included the hit “Looking Too Closely” which has over 30 licenses to TV and Film, and over 45 million plays on Spotify. 2017 marked the beginning of his collaboration with Flood (Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Warpaint, U2) as a producer and mentor, culminating in the release of both his Blues side project Fink’s Sunday Night Blues Club, Vol.1. Colin Stetson once again collaborated with Fink on “She Was Right”, a stand out track from the collection. Resurgam, the most recent full length album by Fink, was recorded and produced by Flood in his Assault & Battery studios in London.

Fink makes his way back to North America this fall for an intimate & special solo acoustic tour – a highly anticipated coast to coast return.

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Con motivo de la participación de Cristina Rivera Garza en nuestro chapter del Hay Festival el fin de semana del 7 y 8 de septiembre rescatamos su libro La cresta de Ilión para nuestro book club.

Durante una inclemente noche de tormenta, alguien llama a la puerta de una casa ubicada en un agreste y solitario lugar frente al océano. Su dueño, un médico dedicado a paliar el dolor de los enfermos terminales, no imagina que su vida está a punto de cambiar de forma definitiva.
Al abrir la puerta, dos mujeres misteriosas invaden su casa y someten a su anfitrión a un despiadado interrogatorio. Mientras que ellas muestran una extraña complicidad -e incluso hablan un lenguaje privado-, acosan al médico repitiendo a cada instante que conocen su mayor secreto, uno que pone en riesgo su identidad.

En esta nueva edición revisada de La cresta de Ilión, Cristina Rivera Garza reitera su desafío a la certidumbre en una historia de una nutrida imaginación que cuestiona los marcadores de género y experimenta con el lenguaje para explorar los miedos más profundos.
El resultado es un oscuro relato de terror sicológico sobre los retos de enfrentar nuestra propia identidad, un texto que se mueve entre diversas fronteras y nos recuerda que, al final, sólo los huesos quedan para contar nuestra historia.

“Cristina Rivera Garza reta lo que se espera de una escritora, de una novela y del lenguaje mismo. Es una rebelde.” –Yuri Herrera

Cristina Rivera Garza es norteña y errante a la vez. Escritora y lectora, sobre todo. Entre sus novelas se distinguen Nadie me verá llorar y La muerte me da -ambas ganadoras del Premio Internacional Sor Juana-FIL en 2001 y 2009, respectivamente-. Ha publicado seis libros de poesía: La más mía, Los textos del yo, El disco de Newton. Obtuvo el Premio Internacional Roger Caillois (Francia, 2013), y la Universidad de Houston le otorgó un Doctorado Honoris Causa. En 2016 publicó Había mucha neblina, o humo, o no sé qué, su homenaje personal y visión de Juan Rulfo, que contiene ensayo, cuento, crónica y experimentos visuales basados en la obra del autor de Pedro Páramo. Señalada como uno de los escritores más influyentes en la red, Rivera Garza mantiene un blog-archivo (www.cristinariveragarza. blogspot.com) y una activa cuenta de twitter (@criveragarza). Puede encontrársele en cristinariveragarza.com. Nacida en Matamoros, Tamaulipas, reside en Estados Unidos desde 1989. Actualmente es profesora distinguida de Estudios Hispánicos y Escritura Creativa en la Universidad de Houston.

Como siempre, aplicaremos un 10% de descuento para los asistentes al book club tanto en la compra de este libro como en las consumiciones de que disfruten el día del evento.

Os esperamos.

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Inner Moonlight welcomes Tom Farris and Harry McNabb this month! Brief open mic to follow. Bring a poem. We dare you.

Tom Farris is the subject of many poems and books of poetry, including Victor Clevenger’s tom farris is my brother. and Paul Koniecki’s tom farris is my safe word (both by CWP Collective Press). In 2017, he wrote a split book with Victor Clevenger called Ginger Roots Are Best Taken Orally, which is published through EMP press. He is an alumna of the Osage Arts Residency in Belle, Missouri, where John Dorsey lives atop a hill on Eagle Lane. He has been published in several dope places, including The University Scholar and Mad Swirl. He is the founder of Free Tongue Press, which so far in 2019 has published Josh Weir’s An Old-fashioned American Catastrophe and Harry McNabb’s Vacuum Stories, and hopes to publish much more.

Harry McNabb is an artist who has performed at countless open-mics over the past ten years. He was a singer-songwriter and a poet, before he found his voice as a writer of short-fiction. Harry’s goal as a writer is to distract you from your life and engross you in another world through humor and fantasy. He has a collection of fiction out right now called Vacuum Stories.

Inner Moonlight is the second Wednesday of every month. Mark your calendar and we’ll see you there!

“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”
—Allen Ginsberg, from On Being a Writer

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VOICES OF SHE

A One-Act Play Festival (Pop-up Theater Style)

Cast:

Tiff Canady

Jacoyshia Tyler

Naomi (Anaya) Toppin

Plays:

Pure Poetry ……….. by Angeline D’Balentine

La Presidente ………………. by Kelly Hornung

Forty-Two ………. by Kimberly & Jacy Harsch

Passion of Tomatoes …….. by Angeline D’Balentine

Travel the World! HER Voice HEARD!

Brought to you by the founders,

Angeline D’Balentine & Ann Rowe

Voices of She seek to inspire the world through the VOICES of WOMEN who have survived, who have lived, who have passed, who have felt heartbreak, and who have loved. We seek to not allow HER to be silenced when SHE is hushed. We seek to rise HER VOICE up, giving her platform to be HEARD. We seek to keep the world awake by letting HER VOICE be the calling BELL. Through our collective work, the world will keep hearing HER VOICE, and always be reminded of the other half of the world human population.

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Vanessa Zamora live at The Wild Detectives
Friday October 11th 8pm – 10pm
Vanessa will make a stop in Dallas before her debut performance at ACL. New album coming out on September 6th!

Pre-sale now available at $10 here.
Door tickets will be $15.

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Aaron Lee Tasjan at The Wild Detectives
Doors: 7p / Show: 8p

Tickets here.

Most people know Aaron Lee Tasjan as one of the wittiest, most offbeat, brilliant, weed- smokin’ & LSD microdosin’ Americana troubadours writing and singing songs today. And the New York Times, NPR and Rolling Stone will all gladly corroborate. But steel yourselves, folk fans, because he’s about to follow his restless muse straight out from under the weight of everyone’s expectations into the kind of glammy, jingle-jangle power-pop- and- psych-tinged sounds he hasn’t dabbled in since his younger days playing lead guitar for a late-period incarnation of The New York Dolls.

Really, the roots of Tasjan’s new record, Karma for Cheap, stretch even deeper, drinking up the sounds of a Southern California childhood spent listening to The Beatles while riding around with his mom at the wheel of their navy blue Volvo station wagon— back to the very first pre-teen year he picked up a six-string and started figuring out all the pretty little chords in those Lennon-McCartney tunes. Back to the pure, blissful unfiltered innocence of falling in love with music for the first time. But more on that later. First, let’s ponder the brutish realities of the American Swamp.

Aaron Lee Tasjan says he aims to use his music for good, but he’s no protest singer. And Karma for Cheap isn’t some heavy-handed, didactic political record cramming a set of talking points down anyone’s throat. It’s a finely tuned rock & roll seismograph measuring the dark and uncertain vibrations of the time in which it was created. A cracked mirror reflecting back the American zeitgeist in this foul year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Eighteen.

“When you’re a songwriter,” Tasjan says, “you’re dealing in truths and untruths—that’s part of your commerce as a citizen of the world. And anything coming along that’s threatening to blur that line is a threat to your livelihood as a working American.”

Take it from Tasjan and Karma for Cheap, being a songwriter in the post-truth world of Trump’s America ain’t easy. Tasjan valiantly wrestles with this new normal in songs like “Set You Free” (“it’s a smokescreen scene and nobody knows what’s real”—fake news!) and “The Truth Is So Hard to Believe.” What will we do when we can no longer map the line between fact and fiction? When we exist in a world where the truth is unknowable and we’re at the mercy of liars and charlatans? “Hearts in chains and hands are off the wheel,” Tasjan sings in hypnotic staccato, tapping the collective cultural anxiety of all the rattled millions drifting off each night to a new American dream, one in which we’re all in a big red, white and blue camaro fishtailing down some winding tree-lined road in the bible-black dark, white-knuckle-clutching the oh-shit bar, accelerator glued to the floor and not a soul in the driver’s seat.

“The sound of this new record is a little more rough and ready, more raw than anything I’ve done before,” Tasjan says. “Seems like a good time for it. We’re living in a pretty raw feed right now, and a lot of these new songs reflect that. They deal with with being stuck in the deluge of horseshit every day. On social media, you see people suckered into getting all irate over some post that, in the end, turns out to be completely fake. We have to be aware of these mindsets, these traps and emotional pitfalls that send us spinning. Music for me is a comfort thing. And I’m trying to sing about all this to remind myself not to get caught up in the game. There are a lot of people out there carrying the burden of this weird, twisted world we’re living in at the moment on their shoulders. So I tried to write a record that offers some comfort, encouragement and hope to those people, as much as it’s possible to be hopeful right now.”

You can listen to Aaron Lee Tasjan music here.

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Our next pick for The WD Book Club is Orange World by American author and pulitzer finalist Karen Rusell. The universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, returns with a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases her extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.

Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In Bog Girl, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a two thousand year old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In The Prospectors, two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant’s safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void–yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master.

“[One] of our most original short story writers… [Russell] has impeccable command of her form….Russell’s particular gift lies in taking themes that are close to universal and presenting them in stories whose strangeness comes to seem entirely natural, even necessary.” –Emily St. John Mandel, The New York Times Book Review

“Brilliant… Stunning… Her imagination is boundless.. .Russell’s last book, Vampires in the Lemon Grove was far and away one of the best books of 2013, and Orange World proves that the author has only gotten better… Russell is one of the most original American authors working today. She’s also one of the best. Orange World is a thing of beauty, a stunning collection from one of the most brilliant literary minds of her generation.” –NPR

As always, Book Club members (meaning you just show up) will enjoy a 10% discount on the next book club title and on every item they’ll ask for at the bar during the Book Club meeting.

Let’s meet up and talk Literature.

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Robyn Hitchcock at The Wild Detectives
Doors: 7p / Show: 8p

Tickets here.

Robyn Hitchcock is one of England’s most enduring contemporary singer/songwriters and live performers. A surrealist poet, talented guitarist, cult artist and musician’s musician, Hitchcock is among alternative rock’s father figures and is the closest thing the genre has to a Bob Dylan (not coincidentally his biggest musical inspiration).

Since founding the art-rock band The Soft Boys in 1976, Robyn has recorded more than 20 albums as well as starred in ‘Storefront Hitchcock’ an in concert film recorded in New York and directed by Jonathan Demme.

Blending folk and psychedelia with a wry British nihilism, Robyn describes his songs as “paintings you can listen to.” His most recent album is self-titled and marked his 21st release as a solo artist, produced by Brendan Benson (The Raconteurs). Hitchcock describes it as a “ecstatic work of negativity with nary a dreary groove.”

It has received rave reviews from UNCUT, Rolling Stone, Paste, Tidal and more.

“A gifted melodist, Hitchcock nests engaging lyrics in some of the most bracing, rainbow-hued pop this side of Revolver. He wrests inspiration not from ordinary life but from extraordinary imaginings…” – Rolling Stone

“These 10 gems slither, rock, roll, glide and shapeshift, coalescing around Hitchcock’s typically anxious, strained but striking and immediately identifiable vocals.” – American Songwriter

“Beloved of everyone from Led Zeppelin to REM, Hitchcock has only enhanced his status with this wonderful outing.” – Hot Press

“Witty, moving and seriously catchy, Robyn Hitchcock is a glorious return for a man who wasn’t really gone in the first place.” – Paste Magazine

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FANIA ALL-STARS TRIBUTE @ The Wild Detectives

A twelve-piece salsa orchestra, at the direction of Christian Valdez, paying tribute to Fania All-Stars musicians in the backyard of The Wild Detectives.
Full orchestra playing from 8pm to 10pm
DJ from 10pm to 1am.

Enjoy a night with music of Cheo Feliciano, Willie Colón, Hector Lavoe, Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades, etc.

Tickets at $25 here.

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