Public spaces · lounge areas · open calendars
Events & community
These stores were built for lingering — couches, chairs, meeting space, and plenty of room on the calendar for whatever you’d like to host.
Share your knowledge & skills
Host something here
We need folks like you to create and host events in our public spaces — ongoing or one-time: readings, workshops, chat groups, book clubs, or any other sort of social circle.
Things we’d especially love to see happen:
- A poetry night
- A chess club
- Discussion groups around science news or KERA-FM public radio content
- A young readers book club
There are a lot of open slots on the weekly and monthly calendar right now — many groups that met here before the pandemic haven’t resumed, and their time slots are yours for the taking.
Email treats@luckydogbooks.com
On the calendar now
Ongoing at the stores
Stone Soup peer critique workshops
Hosted by The Writer’s Garret at our East Dallas store: mixed-genre peer critique on the 1st & 3rd Sundays, 3:00–4:30 PM. Bring your pages.
Space for your gathering
Need a place for a modest gathering or book signing? We share space with community groups for author readings, signings, workshops, concerts and book clubs. Email us for information and terms.
Coffee, cold drinks & cookies
At East Dallas, browse with one of our dozens of cold beverage and coffee options — and at both stores we stock the crunchy cookies and shortbreads from local bakers Wackym’s Kitchen, in every flavor we can get.
Oak Cliff · the bookstore neighborhood
Do the Oak Cliff book crawl
Oak Cliff has the most bookstores in Dallas — and every spring, Independent Bookstore Day brings its “official” Oak Cliff Bookstore Crawl. Or tour the seven shops on your own schedule:
- Lucky Dog Books — 911 W. Jefferson Blvd (start here, obviously)
- Wild Detectives — 314 W. 8th, Bishop Arts
- Pan-African Connection — 4466 S. Marsalis Ave
- Poets Bookshop — 506 N. Bishop
- Whose Books — 512 W. Davis
- Blush Bookstore — 432 W. 8th St
- Fine Print — 212 S. Madison
Buy from all of them — then recycle your finds with us when you’re done reading. That’s the circle of book life.
Bigger ideas welcome
Two invitations from the owners
Start a cafe in a bookstore
Each bookstore has room for some sort of cafe, and we’d like to find the right folks for each location to get one going. Bring the drive and the gear, and let’s talk terms.
Raise your handBuy a bookstore?
We’ve been doing this for 50 years and wonder if it’s time to let someone else give it a try at one or both locations. A younger couple? A neighborhood co-op? We’d stay around to help train for a substantial period.
Start the conversation