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Bienvenido al nuevo book club bilingüe en The Wild Detectives, creado para unir lectores de inglés y español de distintos niveles a través de historias contadas por autores Latinoamericanos y Españoles. Cada mes leeremos dos cuentos publicados en inglés y español de dos escritores de la lista Granta, que reúne los 22 mejores narradores en Español del panorama actual.

Chequea la lista con las historias que leeremos cada mes y apuntate cuando quieras, son historias independientes y no hace falta haber leído el libro para participar

No es necesario un nivel fluido en ninguno de los dos idiomas, se trata de unir las dos lenguas, disfrutar de historias maravillosas y practicar cualquiera de los dos idiomas mientras leemos, hablamos y bebemos.

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Puedes comprar el libro en cualquiera de los dos idiomas en nuestra librería o pedirlo en nuestra tienda virtual con un 10% de descuento.

Edición en español

Edición en inglés

Join us for our first ever meeting of the Wild Detectives Bilingual Book Club, created to bring together Spanish and English-speakers of varying levels who share a love for language, literature and culture. Each month we will discuss a selection of short stories from the new Granta selection, which showcases the best contemporary fiction writers in Spanish.

Please check below the stories we´ll read each month and join us anytime, you don´t need to read the whole book in order to enjoy the conversation

Fluency in either language is not necessary! It’s the perfect opportunity to not only discuss great stories, but also to practice whichever of the two languages you most want to grow in!

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The book can be bought in Spanish and/or English at The Wild Detectives and also only with a 10% discount.

English edition

Spanish edition

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Stories list

December 2nd

Viajeras bajo la marquesina/Travellers Inside the Marquee – Eudris Planche Savón

Insomnio de las estatuas/Insommia of the Statues, David Aliaga

January 6th

Mar de piedra/Sea of Stone, Aura García Junco Moreno

Nuestra casa sin ventanas/Our Windowles Home, Martín Felipe Castagnet

February 3rd

Ruinas al revés/Ruins in Reverse, Carlos Fonseca

Anillos de Borromeo/Borromean Rings, Andrea Chapela

March 3rd

Mi nuevo yo/The New Me, Andrea Abreu

Nadie sabe lo que hace/Nobody Know What They are Doing, Camila Fabbri

April 7th

El color del globo/The Color of Balloons, Dainerys Machado

El gesto animal/The Animal Gesture, Alejandro Morellón

May 5th

Rasgos de Levert/Levert’s Appearance, José Adiak Montoya

Días de Ruina/Days of Ruin, Aniela Rodríguez

June 2nd

Rasgos de Levert/Levert’s Appearance, José Adiak Montoya

Días de Ruina/Days of Ruin, Aniela Rodríguez

July 7th

Wanjala, Estanislao Medina Huesca

Soporte vital/Vital Signs, Munir Hachemi

August 4th

Niños perdidos/Lost Children, Irene Reyes-Noguerol

Cerezos sin flor/Bitter Cherries, Carlos Manuel Álvarez

September 1st

Una historia del mar/A Story of the Sea, Diego Zúñiga

Oda a Cristina Morales/ Ode to Cristina Morales, Cristina Morales

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Welcome back to the Six Foot Love series at The Wild Detectives. A series of live outdoor performances with numbered seats and limited capacity.

Tickets: $10/person

An evening of sagacious spoken word, boundless trumpet, searing polyrhythms, and cosmic electronic soundscapes.

Swirve is an electric trumpet and vocal contraption. It began with Dallas Trumpeter, Chris Curiel’s need to combine his formal jazz training with influences from Dave Douglas to Miles Davis to Don Cherry and Avashai Cohen. He uses electronics and loop samplers, along with poet, Tamitha Curiel on words, and drummer Gerard Bendiks.

Tamitha Curiel is a writer, actor and educator. Her work has appeared in the White Rock Zine Machine, Inverse/Looped, Mad Swirl, Decolonize Dallas and she is currently co-hosting Pleasant Groove, a poetry open-mic with Chris Curiel and Priscilla Rice. She programs for Love Lifts the Load, and is an IB Film and TOK Instructor.

Chris Curiel is a Dallas based trumpeter who has been performing professionally for over 20 years. After his formal education at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the University of North Texas. He has been on a creative journey that continues to push and drive him to discover new sounds, genres, and collaborations. From jazz and blues to indie rock and avant-garde, he has performed for audiences worldwide.

Gerard Bendiks has lived and performed music in DFW for decades. He is also a drum set teacher, art photographer, composer, and band leader. Before arriving in Dallas he studied music at the Institute of Artistic Perceptions with Alan Silva’s Celestrial Communications Youth Orchestra in Paris, France. He’s performed/performs etc with Swirve, the Magga Orchestra (and 4tet), Isopod, Dennis Gonzalez, Linny Nance, Liz Mikel, James Clay, Robert Sanders, John Lewis, Jimi Towry, Prince Lasha, John Purcell, the Hazy Days DJ crew, and a long list of others.

Your Loving Son is an experimental, electronic spoken word soundscape impromptu performance experience. Husband and wife duo Carlos and Opalina Salas draw from their experiences of the land, the stars and various cosmic dimensions. They are noise innovators straight out of Oak Cliff!

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***DISCLAIMER: In case of inclement weather, the show will be held indoors.***

***Use of mask is strongly encouraged***

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Join us for the book launch of Cremation (New Directions, 2021), the masterpiece from one of our most beloved Spanish authors, Rafael Chirbes, translated by Valerie Miles.

Valerie Miles will be in attendance to discuss this amazing novel and its translation process.

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Along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain, real-estate developers scramble to transform the once pastoral landscape into tourist resorts, nightclubs, and beachfront properties with lavish bars and pools. The booming post-Franco years have left everything up for grabs. Cremation opens with the death of Matías, a paterfamilias who had rejected all of these changes and whose passing sets off a chain reaction, uncovering a past that had been buried for years, and leading those closest to him to question the paths they’ve chosen. In a rich mosaic narrative, filled with a hypnotic chorus of voices, Cremation explores the coked-up champagne fizz of luxurious parties shadowed by underworlds of political corruption, prostitution, and ruthless financial speculation. The novel enters that melancholy ouroboros of capitalist greed that led to the financial crash and captures something essential about our values, our choices, and our all too human mistakes.

Valerie Miles is a publisher, writer, translator and the co–founder of Granta en español. She is known for promoting Spanish and Latin American literature and their translation in the English speaking world, at the same time as bringing American and British authors to Spain and Latin America for the first time, working with main publishing houses on the sector. She is currently the co-director of Granta en español and The New York Review of Books in its Spanish translation. On 2012 she co-curated a Roberto Bolaño  at the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona.  In addition, she is a professor in the post-graduate program for literary translation at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

An overflowing, mesmeric masterpiece about greed from “one of the most remarkable authors on the Spanish scene” (The Guardian)

Like William Faulkner or Francis Bacon, Chirbes stares, clear-eyed, into the abyss, and portrays us as we really are. “Rafael Chirbes is a master of the kind of Spanish literature that shines most brightly in lyrical descriptive passages and powerful metaphors.” —MARA FAYE LETHEM, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Utterly convincing in its psychological details, but also memorable for the beauty of its writing and rhythms.” —COLM TÓIBÍN

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Inner Moonlight is back at the Wild Detectives in person! RSVP to meet us in the backyard at 7:30pm on Wednesday December 8th for live poetry from one featured writer, with a brief open mic to follow. Don’t worry, podcast fans! We will record the live show and release it as a podcast episode for y’all. This month we are stoked to feature poet Shug Avery!

Leanetta “Shug” Avery is a poet and performer, born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Elm Thicket located in Dallas, Texas. She is the former TV host of Alternative Scream out of Houston, co-founder of Texas A&M’s Mic Check in College Station, and two-time performer of Rickey Smiley’s “Big City Talent.” She currently serves as co-host of The Local Source podcast, which highlights minority owned businesses and engaging topics centered around race, gender, sexual orientation and religion. Learn more at www.thepoetshug.com.

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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Join us for a very special evening with Jolie Holland and Stevie Weinstein Foner.

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American multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, producer, and singer-songwriter Jolie Holland has been on the road since the early 2000s, releasing seven of her own albums and collaborating on countless others. Her work has been described as a syncretization of American roots, with rock and experimental elements. She’s been in the studio with Booker T, Lucinda Williams, and TV On The Radio; and shared stages with Mavis Staples, St. Vincent, Elbow, and Big Thief. Her collaborators have included Hal Willner, Kronos Quartet, and Boots Riley. Lou Reed once told her, “I could have listened to you all night.”

Musician and artist Stevie Weinstein-Foner offers songs of sincerity, optimism, and cosmic perspective. Where Stevie’s debut album, 2013’s Let It Be Told, offered fuzzy, lo-fi grooves, 2021’s Wondering is fully-realized, honed over years of playing and touring with partner Jolie Holland. Produced alongside veteran session musician Jared Samuel, the album trades in warm sounds, irresistible harmonies, and songs that are probably best sung around a campfire

Weather will determine whether this show takes place in our backyard or inside.

Tickets: $20/person

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About this event

The goal of Climate Book Club is to build literacy around the environment and climate change to help you continue the conversation with your community. No expertise required. We will be reading and learning together!

Climate book club is open to the public! You do not need to be a member of CCL to attend.

Check out this feature about our book club on Greensource DFW

Who is Citizens’ Climate?

Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) is a non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change. We are volunteer-based and CCL DFW is the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex Chapter.

READING LIST 2021

Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall (2015)

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READ: Climate Book Club on Greensource DFW

“The Climate Book Club is an attempt to create a warm and non-intimidating environment, open to the general public, where we draw upon the collective knowledge of the group to work through some of these questions together. [Our books] are related to the political, economic and environmental impacts of climate change, and the potential solutions for this problem.”

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Authors Chris George and Robin Myrick will present work from their recently published debut collections: The Occultation (fiction) and I Am This State of Emergency (poetry).

This event is free; RSVP HERE.

Chris George is the son of the expanses of semi-rural Texas. He is an admirer of all things overgrown and left alone, and the ordinary folk who inhabit his native land. He currently lives in Dallas, where he teaches and writes. The Occultation is his first book.

Robin Myrick is a conceptual and experimental artist working in photography, writing, and hybrid forms. Her projects often engage the transitory nature of the mediated moment, as expressed through television and film, portraiture and the body, and the rhetoric of identity, politics, consumerism, and disaster. She holds an MFA in Writing and Critical Studies from California Institute of the Arts. I Am This State Of Emergency is her first book.

Surveyor Books is a Dallas-based publisher of first books by first-time authors.

Praise for Chris George’s The Occultation

 “In Chris George’s tales, a uniformly flat and sordid world is refined to a point of strange translucence through which other worlds, both wonderful and terrible, are glimpsed. With things reduced to such a state of lowest energy, lowest spiritual possibility, all it takes is the slightest, deftest flip of the language to deflect, to redirect, and to suggest some fearful joy beneath the surface. This is raw and fearful stuff.” — David Searcy

“In a forgotten alley, past a door with a broken padlock, through the dark of a closet that never ends, you’ll find a Chris George story. The Occultation tantalizes at every turn. With an unflinching eye, George hacks through the weeds of a North Texas long overlooked in the popular imagination, where the ghosts have secrets and keep them, too.” — Simon Han

“I loved these sharp, haunting vignettes from the end of the world. They are linked but open, both mysterious and familiar, with an eerie, distilled, and alluringly ambiguous quality. The Occultation showcases that rare combination of style and substance.” — Lindsay Lerman

Praise for Robin Myrick’s I Am This State of Emergency

 “Robin Myrick reckons with the ruin/s of nation, of critical thinking, of radical empathy, of necessary discomfort and discord. And yet, this book is nothing if not loud, marked by polyvocal prose, contrapuntal verse: omnipresence and hyper-mediation as our lingua franca in Post Internet culture. Harnessing a docupoetics that returns poetry to the street, to the town hall meeting, to language as a state of emergence and exigency, I Am This State of Emergency asks us to consider listening as a poetics and a political praxis. Informed by information theory’s foundational tenet, this is a book that takes noise as more than necessary; as narrative itself.” — Chris Campanioni

 “I Am This State of Emergency turns up the volume on the nightmarish soundscape of contemporary American politics, spurring us to listen and listen hard to where we are and what we have become. Myrick’s endlessly innovative poems transfigure the collective transcript of our last decade, showing us what better things we can do with words. ‘The only way out is out,’ she insists, and with this collection, points us towards the exits. A labor of love for the body politic, and a powerful, arresting debut.” — Janet Sarbanes

“In the making of her debut collection of poems, I Am This State of Emergency, Robin Myrick set out to listen closely to the kind of person most unwilling to do the same, the politically divided argumentative American. The resulting document of this deep listening experiment is in poem form, organized by playlist. Bouncing from ‘I’ to ‘I’ across the political spectrum, an opposing, despicable ‘you’ is always in view. Myrick has brilliantly imploded the bumper sticker stick-it-to-em, unearthing the true slogans of our time: a puzzle of contradictions, double standards, ironies — even thinly concealed hurt — and a devotion to the divide itself. Angry voter tirades are blasted open, pulled apart, taken to their logical conclusion, and smartly juxtaposed, each poetic turn an uncomfortable revelation inciting laughter, horror, and contemplation. It’s precisely in Myrick’s unwavering attentiveness to the us vs. them rhetoric that these poems point us elsewhere, lead us to unexpected places — if only America could quiet down and pay attention and listen like Myrick does. Ultimately, these poems prove that it’s in the act of listening and in the necessity for poetry that we can get ourselves out of this predicament. These poems are their own kind of protest, and I’d love to have any part of them on the bumper of my car.” — Stephen Van Dyck

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