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Meagan Rothschild and Ruby Hunt are the duo behind The Love Witches “Our ethos is in creating spaces that spark a connection”

They have created a special evening for singles at our backyard on October 27th, get ready for some fun speed dating, creating a fun story, drinks and more fun.

Tickets are $15 and they include a complimentary drink and other surprises. You can find tickets here

This event is LGTBQIA friendly and all options are welcomed.

The intention is to learn, share, and ultimately build meaningful connections.

Connections are found everywhere – you could meet your next friend, business partner, or a love connection. Perhaps you meet a yoga pal, cooking connoisseur, or travel companion. You’ll be amazed at who you connect with when you open your mind to new experiences.

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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: $15/person

A dreamy double bill for a night of avant-pop and ecological soundscapes.

Lily Taylor + Black Taffy

Dubbed “the Texan experimental pop chanteuse” by Aquarius Records in SF, CA regarding Taylor’s 2015 album, The Ride, her newer material does not disappoint. Some of the songs are ambient, some are more pop, some delve into experimental territory. “I’ve been living and working as a musician, booking agent, and voice teacher in Texas over the last decade. This specific project is dear to me, as I’ve been working on it the longest. Over the last few years, Black Taffy has helped me focus on production, as well as collaborating on new material, and I think we’ve created something pretty special to share. Each song is a dive into a different world with different characters, places, experiences.”

Black Taffy (Donovan Jones) is a Dallas-based composer and performer whose current focus lies in pairing ambient music with large bass and percussion. Sometimes performing with only Vibraphone and cassette decks, he frequently employs the use of tape loops and other antiquated mediums to create pillowy worlds of wow and flutter. After leaving the band This Will Destroy You, Donovan put all his musical talent into Black Taffy, after a while he started producing other artists, especially female vocalists like Lily Taylor, Sudie, and Mattie.

blendways

A mixed media multisensory ecological reveries including soundscape ecology, sound collage, ambient music, field recordings, zines, fiber art, future news, and nous news. Their work was featured in the 2020 UNT Center for Experimental Music and Media event SONIC MURALS, and the 2020 virtual music festival INTERFERENCE FEST: Women Making Noise. They have collaborated with projects at the Dallas Contemporary Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and in local North Texas experimental festivals.

www.lilytaylormusic.com

https://blacktaffy.bandcamp.com/

https://blendways.bandcamp.com/

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***The use of masks is strongly encouraged.***

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Nuestro club del libro en español vuelve a reunirse para hablar sobre Nuestra Parte de Noche, El terror sobrenatural se entrecruza con terrores muy reales en esta novela perturbadora y deslumbrante, que consagra a Mariana Enriquez como una escritora fundamental de las letras latinoamericanas del siglo XXI. Premio Herralde 2019

Puedes encontrar este libro en nuestra librería y en nuestra tienda digital

Este evento es gratis y abierto a todo el público, confirma tu asistencia aquí

El legado, el deseo de vivir, la paternidad, el horror, lo ntimo y lo pol tico. El terror sobrenatural se entrelaza con terrores muy reales en esta osada y perturbadora novela.

Un padre y su hijo atraviesan Argentina por carretera, desde Buenos Aires hacia las cataratas de Iguaz , en la frontera norte con Brasil. Son los a os de la junta militar, hay controles de soldados armados y tensi n en el ambiente. El padre de Gaspar trata de protegerlo del destino que le ha sido asignado despu s de que su madre muriese en circunstancias poco claras; en un accidente que acaso no lo fue.

Como su padre, Gaspar est llamado a ser un m dium en una sociedad secreta, la Orden, que contacta con la Oscuridad en busca de la vida eterna mediante atroces rituales. Para ellos es vital disponer de un m dium, pero el destino de estos seres dotados de poderes especiales es cruel, y el desgaste f sico y mental es r pido e implacable. Los or genes de la Orden, regida por la poderosa familia de la madre de Gaspar, se remontan a siglos atr s, cuando el conocimiento de la Oscuridad lleg desde el coraz n de frica a Inglaterra y desde all se extendi hasta Argentina.

El lector emprender un viaje entre la represi n de la dictadura militar argentina y el Londres psicod lico de los a os sesenta, donde la madre de Gaspar conoci a un joven cantante de aire andr gino llamado David; descubrir casas cuyo interior muta, pasadizos que esconden monstruos inimaginables, rituales con fieros sacrificios humanos, enigm ticas liturgias sexuales y la carga de una herencia atroz.

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A father and a son cross Argentina by road, from Buenos Aires to the Iguazu Falls. It’s the military regime era, there are controls of armed soldiers and tension in the environment. The son’s name is Gaspar and the father tries to protect him from his destiny after his mother died in unclear circumstances.

Con un lenguaje profundamente poético al tiempo que visceral, Cometierra camina al filo de la huella de autores fundamentales como Juan Rulfo y Sara Gallardo, y reinventa con brillo propio y una voz singular el universo del conurbano bonaerense.
Selva Almada

¡Os esperamos!

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Our next book club selection is Reprieve by James Han Mattson. A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killing that takes place in a full-contact haunted escape room–a provocative exploration of capitalism, hate politics, racial fetishism, and our obsession with fear as entertainment

This event will be online and you can access it here

Find this book in our bookstore or get it delivered to your home from our online store

You can also join our Goodreads group here!

Let’s meet up and talk Literature!

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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.

Nuestro próximo encuentro será el Jueves 4 de Noviembre, y leeremos los textos Deshabitantes de Gonzalo Baz y Reinos de Miluska Benavides.

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.

Confirma tu asistencia gratis en este link

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.

Our next meeting will take place on November 4th, and we´ll read the stories Uninhabitantes by Gonzalo Baz y Kingdoms by Miluska Benavides.

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

We hope to see you there!

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Noir at the Bar Dallas is back with more dastardly tales of crime and debauchery read live! Join us for another fantastic night of FREE crime fiction readings out on the back porch of The Wild Detectives. Featuring readings from Kathleen Kent, Harry Hunsicker, Eryk Pruitt, Opalina Salas, and many more!

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Inner Moonlight is back in person! We are thrilled to return to the Wild Detectives backyard on November 10th 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 thrilled to feature Dallas poet Vic Victory.

This event is free and you can RSVP here

Vic Victory is a writer, painter, graphic designer, serial roadtripper and poet from Texas. She’s an introvert with severe social anxiety who regularly demonstrates a somewhat masochistic urge to draw attention and make a spectacle of herself. She makes art, poems, stories, questionable choices, and a variety of interesting mistakes.

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 poetry night with special guests Barbara Ras and Jim Moore. Barbara and Jim will be reading poems from their latest collections in our backyard, just before the cold weather makes its appearance.

This event is free and you can RSVP HERE

Barbara Ras is the author of four poetry collections: The Blues of Heaven (Pitt Poetry Series, 2021), The Last Skin (Penguin, 2010), which won the Texas Institute of Letters Best Book of 2010, One Hidden Stuff (Penguin, 2006), and Bite Every Sorrow, which won the Walt Whitman Award and also received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.  Ras has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others.  Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Tin House, Granta, Five Points, American Scholar, Massachusetts Review, and Orion, as well as in many other magazines and anthologies.  She is the editor of a collection of short fiction in translation, Costa Rica: A Traveler’s Literary Companion. Ras has taught in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson and at workshops nationally and internationally.  For four decades, Ras had a career in book publishing.  She is the founding director emerita of Trinity University Press and lives in San Antonio.

Jim Moore is the author of seven books of poetry, including Underground, Invisible Strings, and Lightning at Dinner. His poetry has appeared in the Nation, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Spoleto, Italy.

Praise for Barbara Ras

“The sweet and dark weight of being has never been more capably measured than in The Blues of Heaven.” —Rick Barot

“The Blues of Heaven radiates with immense tenderness—here are poems of vivid painterly wonderment, perfect pacing and weight, elegantly woven counterpoints of shimmering imagery.  How does she do this?  A book of infinite love and depth.” —Naomi Shihab Nye

“Barbara Ras’s poems are informed by a metaphysically erudite and whimsical exuberance. . . Ras structures poems with a zaniness and an unpredictable cunning, and her verbal expertise and lucidity are a bright and surprising as her knowledge of the world is profound.  Bite Every Sorrow is a splendid book, morally serious, poetically authentic, spiritually discerning.” — K. Williams

Praise for Jim Moore

“Jim Moore’s poems are an artful amalgam of humor and fierce attention, suffused by a passion for ancient Asian poetry. Like his sage poet-teachers he grasps the quiet power of white space, knowing that what is unsaid is often just as crucial as what is.”—The New York Times

“Sweetly inviting and strongly felt. . . . These five decades of poems are of a piece, showing that the world is beautiful, yet it ‘fails its beauty. / What choice, but to love the failings themselves.’”—Publishers Weekly

“There is a stunning clarity to Jim Moore’s latest poems. . . . Poised at the threshold of mortality, ‘unencumbered / by thoughts of what might have been,’ these poems hover between transient beauty and transfigured time; they embrace and let go of ‘what was never ours to keep.’”—Arthur Sze

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