july, 2023
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Mark your calendars, another Dallas Noir At The Bar is coming to The Wild Detectives on Sunday, July 2nd, featuring an amazing line up!
See you at the bar!
july, 2023
02julsunNoir At The Bar7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Event Type :Reading PanelSTORIES
Mark your calendars, another Dallas Noir At The Bar is coming to The Wild Detectives on Sunday, July 2nd, featuring an amazing line up! See you at the bar!
Mark your calendars, another Dallas Noir At The Bar is coming to The Wild Detectives on Sunday, July 2nd, featuring an amazing line up!
See you at the bar!
(Sunday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
ALSO
october
What can ancient thinkers teach us about speaking honestly when the truth is unpopular, choosing whom and how to love, or leading when those in power fail? FREE RSVP Admission is free,
What can ancient thinkers teach us about speaking honestly when the truth is unpopular, choosing whom and how to love, or leading when those in power fail?
Admission is free, you can RSVP >>>HERE<<<
Support the series and receive a copy of How to Speak Freely with your ticket bundle.
The Wild Detectives Ideas and Princeton University Press present Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers, a conversation series that brings the practical ideas of classical thinkers into lively, accessible dialogue with modern life. Across three evenings, the scholars responsible for new editions in the series will discuss how ancient texts can help us think through urgent contemporary questions.
Explore the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series at Princeton University Press.
What does it take to speak candidly when honesty carries real consequences? And how should leaders respond when people tell them what they do not want to hear?
For the opening conversation, classicist Michael Fontaine discusses How to Speak Freely: An Ancient Guide to Free Speech and Dissent, for which he selected, translated, and introduced Plato’s Apology, together with Lucian’s satirical The Gods in Council.
In Plato’s account, Socrates defends his duty to question authority, think independently, and speak according to conscience—even at the cost of his life. Lucian turns the question around, asking whether leaders who praise candor can tolerate it when speech becomes uncomfortable. Fontaine will bring these ancient arguments into conversation with today’s debates about free inquiry, dissent, institutional authority, and the risks of speaking one’s mind.
Michael Fontaine is Professor of Classics at Cornell University and director of Cornell’s Program on Freedom and Free Societies. He is the selector, translator, and author of the introduction to How to Speak Freely, and has written, edited, or translated several books in Princeton’s Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series.
December 14: Maria Heim, translator and author of the introduction to How to Truly Love, brings the Buddhist thinker Buddhaghosa into a contemporary conversation about love and relationships.
February 16: Mallory Monaco Caterine, translator and author of the introduction to How to Lead When Men Fail, considers Plutarch’s lessons on women, power, and leadership.
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
07octwedFeaturedRead Banned Books. Play Trivia With Us!7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Event Type :TriviaSTORIES
Let Books Be. Protect the Freedom to Read.Join us for Banned Books Trivia during Banned Books Week, benefiting Wholly Informed Sex Ed (WISE), a 501(c)(3) organization bringing quality, inclusive sex
Let Books Be. Protect the Freedom to Read.
Join us for Banned Books Trivia during Banned Books Week, benefiting Wholly Informed Sex Ed (WISE), a 501(c)(3) organization bringing quality, inclusive sex education to students across Dallas.
Wednesday, October 7, 7:00–9:00 p.m. at The Wild Detectives in Oak Cliff. $25 suggested donation at the door. Complimentary bubbly and prizes!
(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
Te invitamos a un taller de poesía en español con el poeta colombiano Federico Díaz Granados. Nos reuniremos en Ideas para explorar la palabra poética y compartir una tarde de
Te invitamos a un taller de poesía en español con el poeta colombiano Federico Díaz Granados. Nos reuniremos en Ideas para explorar la palabra poética y compartir una tarde de lectura y escritura.
Federico Díaz Granados es autor de Grietas de la luz (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2024), un libro que aborda la memoria y la pérdida a partir de la experiencia de sus dos abuelas. Ha publicado también Las voces del fuego, La casa del viento y Las prisas del instante.
Presentado en colaboración con SMU. El taller será en español y está abierto al público. Plazas limitadas: 20 personas.
(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Wild Detectives - Ideas
321 N Zang Blvd
november
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
Join us for the Dallas launch of The River That Made Texas: A Forgotten History of the Trinity, with river historian Scot McFarlane, naturalist Ben Sandifer, and the Texas Rivers
Join us for the Dallas launch of The River That Made Texas: A Forgotten History of the Trinity, with river historian Scot McFarlane, naturalist Ben Sandifer, and the Texas Rivers Protection Association.
A conversation and Q&A about the book will be followed by a signing and storytelling session with conservationists and river advocates, including the East Texas organization Save The Cutoff.
The Trinity has shaped Texas through flood and drought, commerce and conflict. In The River That Made Texas, Scot McFarlane follows the people who have called its banks home—from the Comanche and steamboat pilots to enslaved and free people, sharecroppers, and urban residents. Their stories reveal a river that has been both a route and a barrier to freedom, a source of livelihoods, and a force in the state’s economic and environmental history.
Scot McFarlane is a Maine-based river historian who grew up along the Trinity in East Texas and founded the Oxbow History Company. His work explores people’s relationships with rivers and streams, and has appeared in Environmental History, Southern History, Slavery and Abolition, and Texas publications. He previously worked with the American Historical Association and Historic New England’s Recovering New England’s Voices initiative.
Ben Sandifer is a Dallas author, photographer, and environmental advocate. A Certified Master Birder and Honorary Lifetime Texas Master Naturalist, he serves as a citizen scientist with the Texas Stream Team and as naturalist for the Dallas Hunting and Fishing Club.
Alexander Neal is a water resources professional and secretary of the Texas Rivers Protection Association. A former Dallasite now based near the Brazos River, he has worked across Texas as a park ranger, wildland firefighter, and water resources specialist.
Save The Cutoff is a nonprofit conservation organization founded in 2022 by hunters and fishermen in Henderson County. It works to restore public access to a historic section of the Old Trinity River and preserve its longstanding hunting and fishing traditions.
(Sunday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
