(plus having her read her poems in the shop was MAGICAL!)Ĭheck Elizabeth’s articles on our website here and here There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce – Morgan Parker We Are Never Meeting in Real Life – Samantha Irby The Song Poet: Memoirs of My Father – Kao Kalia Yang Quien Mató a Palomino Moreno – Mario Vargas Llosa Music for the Age or Miracles – The Clientele Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh My Favorite Thing Is Monsters – Emil Ferris Kind of interesting, that 1984, which was published in 1949, made it to the top 3. Just so you know, our list includes not just those books, albums and movies/TV shows released on 2017, but also those that have been read, listened to and watched this year regardless of the publication date. It’s the first time we have a book in Spanish as the best book of the year and that makes us immensely happy (even better: a book written by a friend). Again, a very heterogeneous list, which just speaks tonnes about how diverse our community is. Ok, enough with blowing our horn, let’s go to the ‘bestest’ of 2017 according to us, our collaborators and friends. What else… oh yeah, our friends at Dieste came up with the #LitBait campaign and we won 2 Lions at Cannes!
Last November, Damien Jurado (and Jacob Metcalf) inaugurated our series of intimate shows in our backyard last November and we’re already planning to bring great artists to our spot. We’ve also consolidated our new co-curation system which has helped us not just to sell more books, but more importantly, to sell books that are relevant for our community. Our Spanish event will be a key part of our mission in 2018. It was such an honor to have authors like Carlos Velázquez, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Santiago Gamboa or Cristina Rivera Garza presenting their work in our bookstore. We’ve expanded our Spanish program with the visits of top Spanish language writers. We’ve managed to bring great authors this year such as Chris Krauss, Morgan Parker, Amelia Gray, Jami Attenberg, Deb Olin Unferth, Melissa Febos… while keeping our events as a platform for local talent and community driven events (Rejected, Backyard Story Night, Shakespeare in the Bar…). Having better author events, more engaging and dynamic, was one of our key objectives for 2017. It’s been a great year for The Wild Detectives! The macro perspective can be dreary, but from a local point of view, we can’t complaint.