Du Iz Tak? – Carson Ellis, 2016

Two Bad Ants – Chris Van Allsburg, 1988

The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle, 1969

Welcome, kids, neighbors, friends and families! It’s finally March and time for Kids In The Cliff weekly story time at The Wild Detectives! This weekend, with spring in mind, we’ll take a peek at the weird world of bugs and cool crawlers with special picturebooks spanning several decades. Stick around after for extra fun. So come join us at The Wild Detectives’ little house for a cozy morning this Sunday. See you in the kids’ section!

Newsflash! If you’re interested in art-centric storyimes, head downtown to the Nasher Sculpture Center over Spring Break, where Lanie DeLay will be reading extra-special books for your young artists at 11:30 Friday March 20th and Saturday the 21^st , and please note that Spring Break falls one week later than usual this year. Look in the sculpture garden, or check inside the museum if it’s raining!

*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 usually 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.

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 tutored 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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For readers of Sally Rooney, Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Offill–a compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction

Miranda Popkey’s first novel is about desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy, guilt–written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism. The novel is composed almost exclusively of conversations between women–the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves, about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage–and careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. Edgy, wry, shot through with rage and despair, Topics of Conversation introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist.

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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Come join us for a poetry reading by Detrick Hughes. Hughes will be touring his upcoming poetry collection Unsuitable for Fools.

Detrick Hughes resides in Houston and is the author of six collections of poetry.  His forthcoming publication, Unsuitable for Fools, will be released this August by Nebo Publishing.

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Round Trip – Ann Jonas, 1983

Bus Stops – Taro Gomi, English translation 2011

Harold and the Purple Crayon – Crockett Johnson, 1955

Welcome, kids, neighbors, friends and families! It’s time for Kids In The Cliff weekly story time at The Wild Detectives! This weekend, with spring break travels on our minds, we’ll take a trio of round trips all in the pages of some super-cool picturebooks! Stick around after for extra fun. So come join us at The Wild Detectives’ little house for a cozy morning this Sunday. See you in the kids’ section!

Newsflash! If you’re interested in art-centric storyimes, head downtown to the Nasher Sculpture Center over Spring Break, where Lanie DeLay will be reading extra-special books for your young artists at 11:30 Friday March 20th and Saturday the 21st, and please note that Spring Break falls one week later than usual this year. Look in the sculpture garden, or check inside the museum if it’s raining!

*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 usually 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.

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 tutored 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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Writing Workshops Dallas Happy Hour in the backyard at The Wild Detectives takes place on the first Tuesday of every month from 6PM – 8PM. Each month we’ll raffle off books, enjoy drink specials, and talk reading, writing, and everything in between. 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.

Our mission is to bring writers out of the wilderness and into community. In fact, we were founded on the basis that having a literary community is essential to the life of any creative writer. Finding a community is an important step that leads most writers to take their work and craft more seriously. We’re proud to be part of the thriving literary scene in Dallas and we hope to see you at Happy Hour!

First Tuesday of Every Month – 6:00PM to 8:00PM

Happy Hour meets at The Wild Detectives at 314 W Eighth St, Dallas, TX 75208

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We are thrilled to feature Jenny Molberg and Kathryn Nuernberger for the March installment of Inner Moonlight! Brief open mic to follow, so bring a poem to share.

Refusal, Jenny Molberg’s second collection of poetry, draws on elements of the surreal—invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons and Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide—to investigate trauma, addiction, and patriarchal forces of oppression. A sequence of epistolary poems looks to friendship as a safe haven from violent romantic relationships, and a series of poems that address a mother’s struggle with addiction looks at the complicated nature of a parent-child relationship affected by alcoholism. Refusal seeks to break silences in the wake of the #metoo movement, and to interrogate a cultural misogyny that weighs on a woman’s position in the world.

Jenny Molberg is the author of Marvels of the Invisible (winner of the 2014 Berkshire Prize, Tupelo Press, 2017) and Refusal (forthcoming, LSU Press). She is the recipient of a 2019-2020 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment and her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, Boulevard, and other publications. She teaches creative writing at the University of Central Missouri, where she directs Pleiades Press and edits Pleiades magazine. Find her online at jennymolberg.com

Kathryn Nuernberger’s Rue is a book of about prairies. A book about rural America. A book about the science and folklore surrounding plants historically used for birth control. It is a book about an affair, a breakdown, and also it is about love. Rue is a book about everything that might be possible between us once we have decided to tell the truth of our lives. Poems from this collection have appeared widely in journals including 32 Poems, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Field, The Florida Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Poetry International, West Branch, Willow Springs, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily.

Kathryn Nuernberger is the author of two previous poetry collections, The End of Pink and Rag & Bone. She has also written a collection of lyric essays, Brief Interviews with the Romantic Past. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA, H. J. Andrews Research Forest, American Antiquarian Society and the Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life, she teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota.

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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Granuaile – John and Fatti Burke, 2018

The Lost Picnic – b. b. cronin, 2017

The Legend of Knockmany, A Folktale From Ireland – Judy Sierra, 1993

Welcome, kids, neighbors, friends and families! It’s time for Kids In The Cliff weekly story time at The Wild Detectives! This St. Patrick’s Day weekend, we’ll take a book-based trip to the Emerald Isle with picturebooks featuring Irish authors, illustrators and stories. Stick around after for extra fun. So come join us at The Wild Detectives’ little house for a cozy morning this Sunday. See you in the kids’ section!

Newsflash! If you’re interested in art-centric storyimes, head downtown to the Nasher Sculpture Center over Spring Break, where Lanie DeLay will be reading extra-special books for your young artists at 11:30 Friday March 20th and Saturday the 21st, and please note that Spring Break falls one week later than usual this year. Look in the sculpture garden, or check inside the museum if it’s raining!

*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 usually 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.

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 tutored 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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The Spring 2020 session of the Difficult Reads Book Group will feature Dostoyevsky’s final masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov. Have you ever wanted to tackle one of those really thick Russian novels? Then this is the group for you. We meet weekly, aiming for about seventy pages for each meeting. Great discussion – and sympathy while you slog through the deep Russian winter.

Wednesday evenings starting March 18th.

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Los ensayos de Cuaderno de faros constituyen una colección alimentada pacientemente con apuntes de viajes, crónicas personales, recuerdos de lecturas y referencias históricas.

En su afán coleccionista, «una pasión fervorosa pero domesticada», la autora visita algunos faros reales, como el de Yaquina Head, el de Goury o el de Tapia de Casariego, y rememora otros procedentes de la literatura, como los presentes en las obras de Virginia Woolf, Lawrence Durrell, Suetonio, Homero, James Joyce, Herman Melville o Luis Cernuda.

La mirada lúcida y nostálgica de Jazmina Barrera, el franco envoltorio de su voz, convierten la lectura de este Cuaderno de faros en una experiencia íntima y magnética.

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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The Climate Book Club, held in partnership with the Citizen’s Climate Lobby, is open to anyone interested in learning more about the political, economical and environmental sides of climate change and clean technologies.

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Les Filles de Illighadad come from a secluded commune in central Niger, far off in the scrubland deserts at the edge of the Sahara. The village is only accessible via a grueling drive through the open desert and there is little infrastructure, no electricity or running water. But what the nomadic zone lacks in material wealth it makes up for deep and strong identity and tradition. The surrounding countryside supports hundreds of pastoral families, living with and among their herds, as their families have done for centuries.

It takes its name from a drum, built from a goat skin stretched across a mortar and pestle. Like the environs, tende music is a testament to wealth in simplicity, with sparse compositions built from a few elements: vocals, handclaps, and percussion. Songs speak of the village, of love, and of praise for ancestors. It’s a music form dominated by women. Collective and communal, tende is tradition for all the young girls of the nomad camps – played during celebrations and to pass the time during the late nights of the rainy season.

In the past years, certain genres of Tuareg music have become popular in the West. International acts of “desert blues” like Tinariwen, Bombino, and Mdou Moctar are synonymous with the name “Tuareg.” But guitar music is a recent creation. In the 1970s young Tuareg men living in exile in Libya and Algeria discovered the guitar. Lacking any female vocalists to perform tende, they began to play the guitar to mimic this sound, replacing water drums with plastic jerrycans and substituting a guitar drone for the vocal call and response. The exiled eventually traveled home and brought the guitar music with them. In time, this new guitar sound came to eclipse the tende, especially in the urban centers. If tende is a music that for women, the Tuareg guitar was its gendered counterpart.

Fatou Seidi Ghali, lead vocalist and performer of Les Filles de Illighadad is one of the only Tuareg female guitarists in Niger. Sneaking away with her older brother’s guitar, she taught herself to play. While Fatou’s role as the first female Tuareg guitarist is groundbreaking, it is just as interesting for her musical direction. In a place where gender norms have created two divergent musics, Fatou and Les Filles de Illighadad are reasserting the role of tende in Tuareg guitar. In lieu of the djembe or the drum kit, Les Filles de Illighadad incorporate the traditional drum and the pounding calabash, half buried in water. The forgotten inspiration of Tuareg guitar, they are reclaiming its importance in the genre and reclaiming the music of tende.

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