Travel Bug Coffee Shop

10/14/2026

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Wednesday November 4th 6:00-7:30pm

A traditional American woman, a “tradwife” influencer, suddenly awakens in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.

One morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed

"A bold and biting satire, Yesteryear…will have you cackling and gasping right to the final page."

Hosted by: Aimee Gwynne Franklyn

Aimee is an independent curator, art consultant and producer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Franklyn is the founding director of Doubleplate Arts, a private consultancy focusing on mid 20th century and contemporary art, and Doubleplate Productions, which highlights the work of socially and politically engaged writers, artists and performers who utilize their voices to affect change.

10/13/2026

Come early for drinks and snacks!

JOIN US! For another great Travel Bug Cafe book presentation, hosted by OSFA:

With an encore presentation of John Bienvenu’s

Adobe Town:
Preserving Santa Fe’s
Sense of Time and Place

Friday, October 16th, 2026
4:30 - 6:00 pm
The Travel Bug Cafe
839 Paseo De Peralta

Need a to buy your own copy? Click the link below,

https://oldsantafeassociation.square.site/adobe-town-book

10/12/2026

Come early to get drinks and a snack! The talk starts at 5pm

10/06/2026

09/09/2026

The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong Wednesday October 7th 6:00-7:30pm

The instant New York Times bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive The hardest thing in the world is to live only once... One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to transform Hai's relationship to himself, his family, and a community on the brink. Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Ocean Vuong's writing-formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness-are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life's most fleeting mercies: a second chance.

Hosted by: Aimee Gwynne Franklyn

Aimee is an independent curator, art consultant and producer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Franklyn is the founding director of Doubleplate Arts, a private consultancy focusing on mid 20th century and contemporary art, and Doubleplate Productions, which highlights the work of socially and politically engaged writers, artists and performers who utilize their voices to affect change.

09/03/2026

September, 12 at 5pm
Santa Fe is often described in visual shorthand: adobe or stucco walls, muted earth colors, and "Santa Fe Style." But the City's identity was taking shape long before the style gained a name. Drawing on his recent Santa Fe New Mexican essay, author, urbanist, and photographer Charles R. Wolfe will explore the deeper sources of a city's character—in the case from the landscape and Indigenous and Hispanic traditions to the Salinas Pueblo Missions, streets, acequias, public life, and patterns of adaptation.
Using ideas and images from his three books—Urbanism Without Effort, Seeing the Better City and Sustaining a City's Culture and Character—Wolfe will also show how to more generally read the "DNA" of cities: the inherited qualities, everyday practices and visual clues that make a place distinctive. He will also summarize his "Leveraging Place" approach, asking how Santa Fe can welcome change while preserving continuity, cultural memory and the qualities that make it more than a marketable style.