february, 2023
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Dance party at the Bookstore!!!
february, 2023
17febfriBookstore Disco W/ BOOM BOOM PUM9:00 pm - 11:59 pm Event Type :Bookstore DiscoSTORIES
Dance party at the Bookstore!!!
(Friday) 9:00 pm - 11:59 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
ALSO
october
#event_10928 .evo_metarow_directimg,#event_10928 .wd-event-venue{display:none}#event_10928 .eventon_desc_in>.row{position:relative;padding-top:46%}#event_10928 .eventon_desc_in>.row>.cuerpo-texto{position:static}#event_10928 .hay-program-banner{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;margin:0}Hay Festival Forum Dallas brings three days of literature, journalism, music and ideas to Bishop Arts, October
Hay Festival Forum Dallas brings three days of literature, journalism, music and ideas to Bishop Arts, October 16–18. The festival unfolds across The Wild Detectives, the Texas Theatre, Whose Books, Oak Cliff Cultural Center and other neighborhood spaces. Explore Saturday’s programme below; select any event title for full details and tickets.
Kelly Lytle Hernández and Nilo Tabrizy, in conversation with Ruth Dickey
The Wild Detectives — Ideas · Free
Presented by the National Book Foundation (NBF), this conversation brings Kelly Lytle Hernández and Nilo Tabrizy together to explore the stories behind today’s headlines. Their work explores immigration, identity and the women-led uprising in Iran, asking whose experiences shape the public record.
Stephanie Drenka, Veletta Forsythe Lill and Mark Lamster
The Wild Detectives — Stories · Free
What does Dallas keep as it grows, and what does it leave behind? Presented alongside Deep Vellum, three local voices consider architecture, preservation and the changing identity of the city we share.
Claudia Piñeiro, in conversation with Lori Feathers
Texas Theatre — Upstairs · $5
Acclaimed Argentine writer Claudia Piñeiro discusses Cathedrals and a body of work that moves between fiction, theatre and the screen. Her stories probe family, faith, gender and power with the tension of a thriller.
The Atlantic journalists and guests
Texas Theatre — Downstairs · Free
The Atlantic brings its national conversation to Dallas. Journalists and guests look at the forces shaping the United States through the perspectives, questions and stories of Texas.
Liliana Colanzi, Edmundo Paz Soldán and Yásnaya Elena A. Gil, in conversation with María Ramos Pacheco
The Wild Detectives — Stories · Free
Three writers revisit the Archive of the Indies and the histories it holds. Through fiction and reflection, they examine colonial memory, the power of archives and the stories that can be told beyond them.
Mariana Alessandri and Anna Pazos, in conversation with Katherine Davies
Texas Theatre — Upstairs · $5
Philosopher Mariana Alessandri and writer and filmmaker Anna Pazos consider what anxiety, grief and uncertainty can teach us. Together they question the pressure to be happy all the time and make room for more complicated feelings.
Adrian De Leon, in conversation with Rowena Pedrena
The Wild Detectives — Stories · Free
In Notes from a Wayward Son, Adrian De Leon traces family, migration and the complicated bonds between fathers and sons. This conversation follows the Filipino experience across borders and generations.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, in conversation with Dr. Michael J. Sorrell
Texas Theatre — Downstairs · $10
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The 1619 Project, joins Dr. Michael J. Sorrell. They discuss history, race, education and how the stories we tell about America shape its future.
June Cohen, in conversation with Jenny Bhatt
Texas Theatre — Upstairs · $10
June Cohen explores the ideas behind The Great Remembering: community, ritual and older ways of living that still speak to the present. A conversation about belonging and connection in an increasingly lonely world.
Rodrigo Hasbún and Brenda Navarro, in conversation with John Bradley
The Wild Detectives — Ideas · Free
Rodrigo Hasbún and Brenda Navarro discuss how lived experience becomes fiction. They explore family, memory and displacement, and the choices that turn intimate histories into stories others can inhabit.
Yásnaya Elena A. Gil and Kumantukxuxpë
Texas Theatre — Downstairs · $10
Language, music and imagination meet in an evening of Ayuujk futurism. Yásnaya Elena A. Gil and Kumantukxuxpë bring Indigenous expression into a conversation about memory, creativity and possible futures.
Josh Kumler
The Wild Detectives — Stories · Free
Stay for an informal conversation about politics at the bar with Josh Kumler. A chance to keep the day’s questions going over a drink and in good company.
(Saturday) 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
#event_10957 .evo_metarow_directimg,#event_10957 .wd-event-venue{display:none}#event_10957 .eventon_desc_in>.row{position:relative;padding-top:46%}#event_10957 .eventon_desc_in>.row>.cuerpo-texto{position:static}#event_10957 .hay-program-banner{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;margin:0}Hay Festival Forum Dallas brings three days of literature, journalism, music and ideas to Bishop Arts, October
Hay Festival Forum Dallas brings three days of literature, journalism, music and ideas to Bishop Arts, October 16–18. The festival unfolds across The Wild Detectives, the Texas Theatre, Whose Books, Oak Cliff Cultural Center and other neighborhood spaces. Explore Sunday’s programme below; select an underlined event title for full details and tickets.
Dana A. Williams, in conversation with Janelle Gray
The Wild Detectives — Ideas · Free
Dana A. Williams reveals Toni Morrison’s transformative years as an editor at Random House. Drawing on her new book, she explores the Black writers Morrison championed and editing as both creative and political work.
Screening and workshop with playwright Shaul Ezer
Texas Theatre — Downstairs · Free
A screening of Shaul Ezer’s imaginative play about authorship, espionage and the stories history remembers, followed by an interactive writing and adaptation workshop with the playwright.
Austyn Wohlers, in conversation with Richard Bailey
Texas Theatre — Upstairs · Free
Presented by the Republic of Consciousness Prize, Austyn Wohlers discusses her debut novel Hothouse Bloom, a story of art, solitude and the natural world. She will also perform several songs.
A.J. Eversole and P.C. Verrone, in conversation with Gretchen VanWormer
The Wild Detectives — Stories · Free
Two contributors to the Indigenous horror anthology discuss folklore, history and the growing presence of Indigenous voices in contemporary horror.
Sama’an Ashrawi, Bun B, Hanif Abdurraqib and Baba
Texas Theatre — Downstairs · $10
Beginning with Sama’an Ashrawi’s Baba Was a Rolling Stone, this conversation explores family, mentorship and the way music carries memory across generations and places.
Richard Ford
Texas Theatre — Upstairs · $5
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford looks back on five decades of fiction and the evolving American life he has traced through his enduring character Frank Bascombe.
Jorge Comensal, Yásnaya Elena A. Gil and Gabi Martínez
The Wild Detectives — Stories · Free
Presented by LiterNatura, three writers consider how fiction, essays and Indigenous thought can change our relationship with land, biodiversity and the climate.
Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Texas Theatre — Upstairs · $5
The authors of P FKN R and the Bad Bunny Syllabus explore Puerto Rican identity, colonialism and music as a form of cultural resistance. This conversation will be in English and Spanish.
Chris Kraus
The Wild Detectives — Ideas · Free
Chris Kraus discusses her new novel, where autofiction and true crime meet stories of family, class and a changing America.
Ben Fountain
The Wild Detectives — Stories · Free
Dallas writer Ben Fountain discusses his new political satire and the challenge of turning the strangeness of contemporary public life into fiction.
Michael Zilkha, Nina Hervé and Will Burns
The Wild Detectives — Ideas · Free
The minds behind ZE Books and Rough Trade Books consider what independent music culture brings to publishing, from creative collaboration and design to the physical book.
(Sunday) 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Get ready for the Nov. 3 election with The Dallas Morning News. Join us for a free voting resource event: meet the reporters, learn about the people and policies on
Get ready for the Nov. 3 election with The Dallas Morning News. Join us for a free voting resource event: meet the reporters, learn about the people and policies on your ballot, and bring your questions.
Reporters will share voting resources for Dallas County, Collin County, and Texas. The evening will also include a conversation with politics reporter Gromer Jeffers Jr. and managing editor Amy Hollyfield, followed by an audience Q&A.
Pick up free swag and enter a drawing for a chance to win tickets to a Mavs or Stars game.
(Monday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Wild Detectives - Ideas
321 N Zang Blvd
november
Join John Bradley and The Wild Detectives Book Club for our 110th selection: You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi, translated from Spanish by Chris Andrews. Across seven stories, Colanzi
Join John Bradley and The Wild Detectives Book Club for our 110th selection: You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi, translated from Spanish by Chris Andrews.
Across seven stories, Colanzi brings together science fiction, horror, and the landscapes of Latin America. Environmental destruction, human ambition, and unsettling visions of the future blur the boundary between the familiar and the strange.
Come ready to share what stayed with you, what surprised you, and where these stories took you. Copies are available in the bookstore and through our online store.
You can also join our Goodreads group to follow the club’s reading selections.
Author photo: Isabel Wagemann.
(Monday) 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
Join us for a conversation with Karen Olsson about her new novel, Dear Thorns, with Dallas writer Sonia Smith. About the book In the South Texas ranchlands, wildlife researcher Lora spends her
Join us for a conversation with Karen Olsson about her new novel, Dear Thorns, with Dallas writer Sonia Smith.
In the South Texas ranchlands, wildlife researcher Lora spends her days tracking the elusive ocelot. An affair with a younger intern disrupts her carefully ordered life, while competing ambitions at the refuge test her dedication to conservation.
With humor and a keen eye for the landscape, Dear Thorns explores midlife desire, the distance between ideals and institutions, and the ways people and animals struggle to find room in a changing world.
Karen Olsson is the author of Dear Thorns, Waterloo, All the Houses, and The Weil Conjectures. Her debut novel, Waterloo, was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. A former editor of The Texas Observer, she has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Bookforum, and Texas Monthly. She studied mathematics at Harvard and lives in Austin with her family.
Sonia Smith is a Dallas-based writer and two-time Livingston Award finalist whose reporting has appeared in Texas Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and the Kyiv Post. Her profile of climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe was selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017.
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Put down your phone, pick up a book, and join us for an evening of conversation and quiet reading with 101Media and Methodist Dallas Medical Center. In Doctor vs TikTok, Juan
Put down your phone, pick up a book, and join us for an evening of conversation and quiet reading with 101Media and Methodist Dallas Medical Center.
In Doctor vs TikTok, Juan (John) Avila II, MD, an internal medicine physician on the medical staff at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, will discuss the health trends filling our feeds—from fibermaxxing and weight-lifting to the best time for a “hot girl walk.” Bring your questions for a live Q&A.
After the conversation, settle in with your own book for silent reading, then stay to meet fellow readers. There is no assigned title: bring whatever you are enjoying, in any genre. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
Admission is free with RSVP. Reserve your spot through Eventbrite.
(Wednesday) 5:45 pm - 8:00 pm
