Watch AADL staff and other community members in a book discussion with The Unerased Book Club.

This month, they'll discuss We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry.

Sheela Lal and Fatema Haque are co-facilitators of The Unerased Book Club, a project of Rising Voices of Asian American Families that reads, and builds community through, Asian American literature.

Lucy recommends LGBTQIA+ focused books for teens. A great way to get ideas for new titles. Books highlighted in this series will be available from AADL and Overdrive.

From Here is recommended for ages 12 and up.

Bestselling author Kiley Reid returns to AADL to discuss her new book Come and Get It with best-selling author Austin Channing Brown.

It’s 2017 at the University of Arkansas, and Millie Cousins—a senior resident assistant at Belgrade Dormitory—just wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. One of her residents, Kennedy Washburn, is a junior transfer who has come to Fayetteville for a fresh start. And Agatha Paul is a writer and visiting professor who is itching for her next topic.

AADL welcomes Keith Taylor for the launch of his new collection of selected poems, All the Time You Want: Selected Poems 1977-2017. In this collection, Taylor, acclaimed poet of the Upper Midwest and the author of eighteen celebrated collections, delivers a stunning medley of his most lasting work: poems that remain vivid in the imagination, that have achieved a life beyond their first appearance on the page.

Ethnographer Marcia Stegath Dorr traveled to the Sultanate of Oman in the 1980s and encountered a timeless culture virtually unknown to the rest of the world. Join her to learn about Oman’s kaleidoscopic food culture, from cosmopolitan souqs to desert camps, mountain terraces and coastal plantations – and encounter authentic traditional recipes along the way.

Curtis Glatter will discuss his latest release with Troikastra. Troikastra is a cross country music trio of Michigan based drummer/electronic musician Curtis Glatter, turntable legend Tenshun and drummer/producer Nathan Hubbard. The trio creates kaliedoscopic music from samples, 16rpm turntables and modular synths. For fans of musique concrete, plunderphonics and skipping exotica records.

Join us for a celebration of the French Dukes! Author Debbie Taylor will kick things off with a reading of her picture book, Step It Up! The French Dukes! Set in 1960's Ann Arbor, Kenny’s story is inspired by the real-life French Dukes Precision Drill Team. Members of the original team will talk with Debbie about their experience, and then do a short performance. They will also share what's happening with young community members today! Books will be for sale and Debbie Taylor will be available to sign them.

Jienan Yuan performs music from his new album 'Your Wave Persists', that serves not only as an act of remembrance for loved ones lost, but also as an exploration on the nature of memory itself. This event features Kyunghee Kim and Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe as readers, with an opening set by Joo Won Park.

Have a look into the writing of Jeffers’ self-published memoir, Can You Hear the Music?, which documents her diagnosis with and recovery from bipolar disorder as well as PTSD from the Virginia Tech shooting while she was on the tenure track at the University of Michigan. 

Each week, AADL staff members share recipes in a specific category – from “Unusual Veggies” to “Favorite Cookies” - whether tried and true or tried and failed. The recipes that are discussed in this episode are attached to this event page. Please join the conversation in the comments section! What are your favorite recipes from this week’s category?