Author Archive
Bonnie Friedman @ The Wild Detectives
Bonnie Friedman will be reading from Surrendering Oz, A Life in Essays at 7PM on November 25 at The Wild Detectives, 314 West 8th Street in Dallas.
Photo By Claire Holt
Bonnie Friedman is the author of Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life (HarperCollins), which was a Village Voice bestseller and is now widely anthologized. She is also the author of The Thief of Happiness: The Story of an Extraordinary Psychotherapy (Beacon), called “strangely profound” in The Washington Post, “eloquent” by Library Journal and “compulsively readable,” in O., the Oprah Magazine. Her essays and short stories have appeared in a wide range of publications, and have been selected for inclusion in The Best American Movie Writing, The Best Writing on Writing, The Best Spiritual Writing, The Practical Stylist, with Readings, and The Best of O., the Oprah Magazine. Visit her website here.
Merritt Tierce @ The Wild Detectives
Merritt Tierce will be reading and signing her new novel Love Me Back at 7 PM on September 25 at The Wild Detectives, 314 West 8th Street in Dallas.
Merritt Tierce was born and raised in Texas. She worked in various secretarial and retail positions until 2009, when she moved to Iowa City to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop as the Meta Rosenberg Fellow.
After graduating in 2011 with her MFA from Iowa, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and she is a 2013 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Author.
About Love Me Back:
Marie, a young single mother, lands a job at an upscale Dallas steakhouse. She is preternaturally attuned to the appetites of her patrons, but quickly learns to hide her private struggle behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. In a world of long hours and late nights, where everything runs on a currency of favors, cash and cachet, Marie gives in to brutally self-destructive impulses. She loses herself in a tangle of bodies and the kind of coke that ‘napalms your emotional synapses.’ But obliteration—not pleasure—is her goal. Pulsing with fierce, almost feral energy, Love Me Back is an unapologetic portrait of a woman cutting a precarious path through early adulthood. In the words of Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, “Tierce roams like an avenging angel across the landscape of twenty-first century American decadence, and the truths she writes achieve a state of near-sacred subversion.”
Pages at Dallas Poetry Slam
Dallas Poetry Slam & Open Mic
Open Mic every Friday
$100 Slam 1st and 3rd Fridays
Heroes Sports Bar & Grill
7402 Greenville Ave
Dallas, TX 75231
Sign up at 7:30pm
Show at 8:00pm
$5 Admission
Free Parking
Drink Specials
Food Available
Music by DJ Big Ant
www.dallaspoetryslam.com
Fatima at Dallas Poetry Slam
Dallas Poetry Slam & Open Mic
Open Mic every Friday
$100 Slam 1st and 3rd Fridays
Heroes Sports Bar & Grill
7402 Greenville Ave
Dallas, TX 75231
Sign up at 7:30pm
Show at 8:00pm
$5 Admission
Free Parking
Drink Specials
Food Available
Music by DJ Big Ant
www.dallaspoetryslam.com
Rave at Dallas Poetry Slam
Dallas Poetry Slam & Open Mic
Open Mic every Friday
$100 Slam 1st and 3rd Fridays
Heroes Sports Bar & Grill
7402 Greenville Ave
Dallas, TX 75231
Sign up at 7:30pm
Show at 8:00pm
$5 Admission
Free Parking
Drink Specials
Food Available
Music by DJ Big Ant
www.dallaspoetryslam.com
Javon at Dallas Poetry Slam
Dallas Poetry Slam & Open Mic
Open Mic every Friday
$100 Slam 1st and 3rd Fridays
Heroes Sports Bar & Grill
7402 Greenville Ave
Dallas, TX 75231
Sign up at 7:30pm
Show at 8:00pm
$5 Admission
Free Parking
Drink Specials
Food Available
Music by DJ Big Ant
www.dallaspoetryslam.com
Unconscious Collective @ Mighty Fine Arts
Who: Unconscious Collective
Who’s that? Aaron and Stefan Gonzales, and Gregg Pricket
When: Saturday, June 28, 9 pm
Where: Mighty Fine Arts, 409 N. Tyler St.
In conjunction with the opening of “Para Normalities” a solo show of work by Andy Don Emmons, The Brothers Gonzalez, known as the symbiotic avant garde rhythm foundation of Yells at Eels, have created a daunting side project with uber-accomplished guitar master Gregg Prickett with the intention of unsettling your musical horizons. Incorporating theatrical tribal costumes and spoken word interludes. The “Collective” will invoke ancient musical realms and inspired contemporary improvisation channeling punk, free jazz, funk, blues and metal. Be prepared for unworldly presences and expanded sensibilities and perhaps an after performance free for all jam with the notorious “Inferno Texino”.
Miroslav Penkov Wins Rolex Award
WordSpace Dallas congratulates Miroslav Penkov on his most recent accomplishment of winning the incredibly competitive Rolex Award. The competition aims to “assist extraordinary, rising artists to achieve their full potential by pairing them with great masters for a year of creative collaboration”. Through the program, Penkov will be paired with writer Michael Ondaatje and with his guidance, continue to work on a novel that has been in the works for four years now.
WordSpace is also honored to have, had Miroslav Penkov at salons in the past, and wish him much success as he embarks on his year-long mentorship.
You can view photos of Penkov’s Salon with WordSpace here
and learn more about the Rolex Awards here
Will Evans facilitates OffWorld: Definitely Maybe by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
What: OffWorld Sci Fi Readers Club
The Book: Definitely Maybe by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, Translated by Antonina W. Bouis
Facilitated by: Will Evans, publisher, Deep Vellum Publishing
When: Thursday, July 24, 7 pm
Where: The Wild Detectives, 314 W. 8th St., Oak Cliff
NOTE: The Wild Detectives will have plenty of copies of Definitely Maybe on hand to sell before the reading series.
About Definitely Maybe: This is its first-ever unexpurgated edition, a sci-fi landmark that’s a comic and suspenseful tour-de-force, and puts distraction in a whole new light: It’s not you, it’s the universe! It tells the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov, who has sent his wife and son off to her mother’s house in Odessa so that he can work, free from distractions, on the project he’s sure will win him the Nobel Prize. But he’d have an easier time making progress if he wasn’t being interrupted all the time: First, it’s the unexpected delivery of a crate of vodka and caviar. Then a beautiful young woman in an unnervingly short skirt shows up at his door. Then several of his friends—also scientists—drop by, saying they all felt they were on the verge of a major discovery when they got . . . distracted . . .Is there an ominous force that doesn’t want knowledge to progress? Or could it be something more . . . natural?
Will Evans is the publisher/Executive Director of Deep Vellum Publishing. Their original translations connect the world’s greatest formerly untranslated contemporary writers with English-language readers for the first time, including Russian Science Fiction.
Click here for a very interesting interview with Will.
Thor Johnson @ 2014 Visual Speed Bump Tour of Art
What: Thor Johnson (ArtSpeak Series)
When: Saturday May 17th, 7:00 pm
Where: Mighty Fine Arts, 409 N Tyler
In conjunction with the day-long Visual Speed Bump Tour of Art Tour in Oak Cliff, WordSpace presents performance art with Thor Johnson. The notorious Thor Johnson direct from his recent acclaimed solo art show will seek to further enlighten and amaze with his poetic revelations, unexpected consequences and stark truth and lies.
www.oakcliffstudiotour.com
There’s 16 studios/galleries so start early and plan ahead! The website has the images and info you might need to build your itinerary. Be adventurous, have fun and be safe.
