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november
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
Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry series at The Wild Detectives! Curated by poet Logen Cure, the series brings together a featured writer and a brief open mic. This month,
Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry series at The Wild Detectives! Curated by poet Logen Cure, the series brings together a featured writer and a brief open mic. This month, we are proud to present artist and writer Tammy Melody Gomez!
Tammy Melody Gomez is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and cultural curator whose literary work—essays, poetry, microfiction—has been published in numerous anthologies, including Bikequity: Money, Class, and Bicycling (Microcosm Publishing), Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art (UT Press), and Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Knopf). Her film poem, “Trash: Chauvin”, was screened at both CineFestival (San Antonio) and the OC Film Fiesta (Santa Ana, California) in 2021. Profiled in Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History (UT Press), Tammy is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.
Tammy presented installation art for the Inner Space exhibit at Kinfolk House in 2025 and for Texas Vignette in 2021. She was honored to open for Dolores Huerta with a poetry presentation at the “De Corazón a Corazón” event in Grand Prairie in October 2025.
Tammy directs the all-Latina poetry ensemble, MUJERES SIN MIEDO (Women Without Fear), which debuted at Amphibian Stage for SparkFest in June 2026. She also curates and hosts SECOND SUNDAY SPOKEN WORD, a monthly literary performance series, at Arts Fifth Avenue in Fort Worth.
Sustainability and social justice are deeply embedded in Tammy’s life and art practices.
“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”
(Wednesday) 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
Virtuosic and versatile guitarist Mike Baggetta returns to The Wild Detectives, where you may remember him as a member of the power trio mssv a couple of years ago. This
Virtuosic and versatile guitarist Mike Baggetta returns to The Wild Detectives, where you may remember him as a member of the power trio mssv a couple of years ago. This time he is on a Double Solos tour with Chicago-based composer and guitarist Eli Winter, for two sets of crafty guitar. Opening the evening, Trio de Sang (Gregg Prickett, a seasoned guitar adventurer; Andra May on violin; and Bobby Fajardo on percussion) will play in a first-time collaboration with Matthew Frerck on bass and Joshua Cañate on saxophone and drums, two-thirds of Trio Glossia.
Doors 7:00 pm
Music 7:30 pm
TICKETS: $15 pre-sale / $25 door
MIKE BAGGETTA
Boundless committed to his complete artistic vision through guitar, voice, and electronics. In addition to leading the band mssv, with Stephen Hodges & Mike Watt, he has collaborated with Nels Cline, Petra Haden and J Mascis, Jim Keltner, David Torn, John Herndon, Henry Kaiser, and Ruth Brown, among many others.
ELI WINTER
A Chicago-based Houston native, his music synthesizes aspects of folk, rock, jazz, and devotional music. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists, including Yasmin Williams, Jaimie Branch and Ryley Walker. His history spans prestigious music festivals like Primavera Sound and Big Ears, pristine listening rooms, museums, university chapels, laundromat bars, and small rooms in shotgun houses.
TRIO DE SANG + JOSHUA CAÑATE + MATTHEW FRERCK
Trio de Sang brings together Latin and Middle Eastern percussion instruments, electric 5-string violin, and electrified classical guitar. Drawing upon their overlapping backgrounds in rock, jazz, classical, avant-garde, and folk traditions from around the globe, these three musicians are seeking a new urban fusion: the folk music of a modern American city.
Cañate is a drummer, percussionist, and tenor saxophonist. His current projects include Same Brain, Trio Glossía, Flesh Narc, and The Dennis Gonzalez Legacy Band.
Matthew Frerck is a performer and composer with experience in the fields of free jazz/creative music, free improvisation, and contemporary classical. Has shared the stage with acclaimed artists such as Henry Threadgill, Aaron Dilloway, and Ken Vandermark, among others.
porous sonorous is an artist-run concert series for other musics and further sounds, flowing sporadically and itinerantly across North Texas.
(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
Join us for a reading and book signing with Catherine Liu, author of Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering. In Traumatized, Liu examines how the language of trauma moved
Join us for a reading and book signing with Catherine Liu, author of Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering.
In Traumatized, Liu examines how the language of trauma moved from clinical settings into popular culture and political life. Tracing a path from shell shock and PTSD to celebrity culture and personal branding, she asks what happens when suffering becomes a public identity—and whether a focus on individual wounds can displace collective action against the conditions that cause them.
Catherine Liu is Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine. She is the author of Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering (Verso, 2026) and Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), and has published widely on critical theory, film and art criticism, psychoanalysis, and Left historiography.
She has appeared on a wide range of podcasts and platforms, including Doomscroll, Chris Hedges, and Chapo Trap House. Liu is the director and founder of the Palm Springs School for Social Research, an educational and research-focused think tank and platform for critical and creative engagement with contemporary culture and politics.
Author photo: Meghan Marin.
(Friday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
En noviembre, El Book Club lee Mamita, del escritor peruano Gustavo Rodríguez.Coordinado por Gabriel Calbosa, El Book Club es un espacio para leer y conversar en español. Los ejemplares de
En noviembre, El Book Club lee Mamita, del escritor peruano Gustavo Rodríguez.
Coordinado por Gabriel Calbosa, El Book Club es un espacio para leer y conversar en español. Los ejemplares de Mamita ya están disponibles en nuestra librería de Stories.
¡Ven a compartir tu lectura!
(Saturday) 11:00 am
14novsatFeaturedDanijandro in the BookRoom7:30 pm - 11:30 pm Event Type :Dj SessionIDEAS
Danijandro joins us for an unhurried DJ set as part of our BookRoom sessions.
Danijandro joins us for an unhurried DJ set as part of our BookRoom sessions.
(Saturday) 7:30 pm - 11:30 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
Join us for a book presentation with Xita Rubert, author of The Key Biscayne Affair, winner of the 2024 Herralde Novel Prize and translated from the Spanish by Julia Sanches.
Join us for a book presentation with Xita Rubert, author of The Key Biscayne Affair, winner of the 2024 Herralde Novel Prize and translated from the Spanish by Julia Sanches. Riley will moderate the conversation.
In this unsettling coming-of-age novel, a Spanish philosophy professor takes his two children from Boston to an island off Miami. As their father becomes absorbed in its glamorous social world, his daughter looks back on a childhood shaped by reckless behavior, divided loyalties, and the uneasy boundaries between love and control. Rubert explores the stories we tell about our families and the memories that resist a simple explanation.
Xita Rubert is a Spanish novelist. In 2024, she won the Herralde Novel Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes for the novel in the Spanish language, for The Key Biscayne Affair. Her first novel, My Days with the Kopp Family, was translated into several languages. She is based in New York and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Princeton University.
Author photo: M. Fonti. Book cover: Ecco.
(Monday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Ballet North Texas presents Pointe & Paint, an evening of creativity and live dance supporting young ballet dancers. Every brushstroke supports a young dancer. No art skills are required —
Ballet North Texas presents Pointe & Paint, an evening of creativity and live dance supporting young ballet dancers. Every brushstroke supports a young dancer. No art skills are required — just come and enjoy.
Paint a real pointe shoe to take home, watch Ballet North Texas dancers perform up close, and take part in a raffle for goodies. All painting materials are provided, and drinks and snacks will be available for purchase.
Tickets
Proceeds support Ballet North Texas, its dancers, programming, and scholarship fundraising. Spots are limited, so reserve your shoe before they are gone.
(Tuesday) 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
First Draughts, the monthly meetup for prose writers from The Writer’s Garret, is back. Grab a book and a beverage, meet other writers, and catch up on local literary news.
First Draughts, the monthly meetup for prose writers from The Writer’s Garret, is back. Grab a book and a beverage, meet other writers, and catch up on local literary news. Expect a drink special, book and gift card giveaways, and a chance to share your writing.
Postcard Fiction
Bring a story of no more than 500 words responding to this month’s prompt: The conflict of the story involves family members.
Feel free to bring bookmarks, cards, or information about your work to share with fellow writers.
Free to attend. RSVP here.
(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
Join us on November 20 for the launch of Mud Songs: Elsewhere Book I with poet and translator Patricio Ferrari, in conversation with Greg Brownderville.Mud Songs: Elsewhere Book I, winner
Join us on November 20 for the launch of Mud Songs: Elsewhere Book I with poet and translator Patricio Ferrari, in conversation with Greg Brownderville.
Mud Songs: Elsewhere Book I, winner of the 2026 Fence Modern Poets Series Prize, is a lyrical and archival journey through languages, inheritances, migration, loss, and renewal. Ferrari’s multilingual poetics moves across castellano, lunfardo, English, and other linguistic currents, with Buenos Aires as one of the book’s central presences.
About Patricio Ferrari
Patricio Ferrari is a polyglot poet, literary translator, editor, and scholar. He holds degrees from the Sorbonne, Brown University, and the University of Lisbon, and has published more than twenty books as a translator and editor, including volumes by Fernando Pessoa’s heteronyms Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis, as well as The Galloping Hour: French Poems by Alejandra Pizarnik, all published by New Directions.
Greg Brownderville will be in conversation with Patricio Ferrari at the launch.
(Friday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
20novfriFeaturedAl G in the BookRoom7:30 pm - 11:30 pm Event Type :Dj SessionIDEAS
Al G joins us for an unhurried DJ set as part of our BookRoom sessions.
Al G joins us for an unhurried DJ set as part of our BookRoom sessions.
(Friday) 7:30 pm - 11:30 pm
22novsunFeaturedOak Cliff Chess Club6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Event Type :Chess ClubSTORIES
Join the Oak Cliff Chess Club for an evening of chess, conversation, and friendly competition. Players of all levels are welcome.Free to attend. Bring your own board and meet other
Join the Oak Cliff Chess Club for an evening of chess, conversation, and friendly competition. Players of all levels are welcome.
Free to attend. Bring your own board and meet other chess players in the neighborhood.
(Sunday) 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
december
07decmonFeaturedThe WD Book Club: Sunrise by Téa Obreht7:30 pm Event Type :Book ClubSTORIES
For our 111th book club selection, join John Bradley for a discussion of Sunrise by Téa Obreht. A plane crash leaves a woman stranded in the Wyoming wilderness, where she finds
For our 111th book club selection, join John Bradley for a discussion of Sunrise by Téa Obreht.
A plane crash leaves a woman stranded in the Wyoming wilderness, where she finds a seemingly deserted town. Her story connects with two others from different moments in its history, revealing secrets behind the legends of the American West. Blending mystery, survival, and a ghost story, Sunrise asks who gets to shape the stories we inherit—and what those stories leave out.
Bring your thoughts, questions, and favorite passages for a conversation about memory, myth, and the ways we make sense of the past.
Pick up a copy at the bookstore or order your copy here.
You can also join our Goodreads group to follow the club and its reading selections.
(Monday) 7:30 pm
Keltie Knight brings The Evil Genius Tour to Dallas for an evening of conversation, candid stories, and writing, moderated by Moll Anderson. Built around the book’s invitation to stop shrinking yourself,
Keltie Knight brings The Evil Genius Tour to Dallas for an evening of conversation, candid stories, and writing, moderated by Moll Anderson.
Built around the book’s invitation to stop shrinking yourself, the event makes room for ambition, big feelings, and the parts of ourselves we have been told are “too much.” Keltie will lead an expressive writing and manifestation workshop, followed by a conversation and audience Q&A.
This is a ticketed event. A pre-signed copy of the book is included with General Admission. VIP tickets also include a meet & greet, photo opportunity, personalized book signing, first choice of seats, and a swag bag.
Tickets are managed by the tour organizers through Eventbrite. Please check the ticket page for current availability and full details.
(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
13decsunFeaturedOak Cliff Chess Club6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Event Type :Chess ClubSTORIES
Join the Oak Cliff Chess Club for an evening of chess, conversation, and friendly competition. Players of all levels are welcome.Free to attend. Bring your own board and meet other
Join the Oak Cliff Chess Club for an evening of chess, conversation, and friendly competition. Players of all levels are welcome.
Free to attend. Bring your own board and meet other chess players in the neighborhood.
(Sunday) 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
Why is it sometimes hardest to be kind to the people closest to us? How do we stay patient with someone who gets on our nerves, or feel genuinely happy
Why is it sometimes hardest to be kind to the people closest to us? How do we stay patient with someone who gets on our nerves, or feel genuinely happy for a friend when things are not going so well for us?
The Wild Detectives and Princeton University Press present Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers, a conversation series about old ideas and the very current business of being human. Together with the scholars bringing these books to new readers, we explore questions that turn up in our relationships, our communities, and our everyday lives. You do not need a background in philosophy, or to have read the book, to join the conversation.
Following our opening conversation with Michael Fontaine about speaking freely, the series continues with Maria Heim and How to Truly Love: An Ancient Guide to a Life of Kindness.
What if kindness is something we can practice, rather than something we either feel or do not? In her translation of the fifth-century Buddhist thinker Buddhaghosa, Heim explores how we can learn to care more generously for others, share in their happiness, and meet difficult moments with a little more steadiness.
We will bring those ideas into a conversation about love beyond romance: how we treat friends, family, strangers, and the people we find difficult. Come with your questions and your own experience of trying to get along with other people.
Explore the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers conversation series.
Maria Heim is a professor of religion at Amherst College. Her books include Words for the Heart, How to Feel, and How to Lose Yourself, coauthored with Jay L. Garfield and Robert H. Sharf.
(Monday) 7:00 pm
First Draughts, the monthly meetup for prose writers from The Writer’s Garret, is back. Grab a book and a beverage, meet other writers, and catch up on local literary news.
First Draughts, the monthly meetup for prose writers from The Writer’s Garret, is back. Grab a book and a beverage, meet other writers, and catch up on local literary news. Expect a drink special, book and gift card giveaways, and a chance to share your writing.
Postcard Fiction
Bring a story of no more than 500 words responding to this month’s prompt: A gift is central to the plot.
Feel free to bring bookmarks, cards, or information about your work to share with fellow writers.
Free to attend. RSVP here.
(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Wild Detectives
314 W 8th St, Oak Cliff, Dallas
