Category: Chapter & Verse
Chapter & Verse
Welcome to the Mind Club
UNC psychology and neuroscience assistant professor Kurt Gray and co-author Daniel Wegner’s new book is “The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why it Matters” (Penguin Group, 2016). Gray and the late Harvard University psychology professor discuss what it means to have a mind and who (or what) belongs in “the mind club.”
Turn the Page: More books by College faculty and alumni
More books by College faculty and alumni for fall 2016.
Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett
Excerpt from Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett, edited by Bernard L. Herman (UNC Press, June 2016).
Bookmark this: More books by College faculty and alumni
College alumni and faculty books on artisan goods, school desegregation, stories along NC 12 and more.
Happy Reading: More books by College faculty and alumni
A new perspective on the Revolutionary War, tales of North Carolina’s waterways, the dramatic story of the Wilmington Ten and more.
Carolina Clam Chowder Down-East Style
Nothing beats this homespun version of clam chowder, sans cream, sans razzmatazz. Nothing to it — “nothing” being a few worthy items: chewy, flavor-packed clams; potatoes; onions; and a handful of bacon.
No Man Nomad No More
Global travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest reflects on her new life in Chapel Hill.
College Bookshelf: Spring 2015
Books on African fashion, women and democracy in Cold War Japan, the downfall of a marriage, a Southern recipe collection, a cool cat named Louis Fellini and more.
Shirley Temple Up Close: Q&A with John F. Kasson
John F. Kasson outlines the connections between Shirley Temple, FDR and The Great Depression in his new book.
College Bookshelf Fall 2014
Books on the edible South, how Jesus became God, the aftermath of 9/11, ancient Roman libraries, mountain poetry and more.
College Bookshelf Spring 2014
Remembering Bill Friday, a new collection from Russell Banks, plus books on Eating Asian American, the Southerner’s guide to living a good life, military chaplains and the Vietnam War, the “other Gospels,” politics from Nixon to NAFTA, and more
College Bookshelf Fall 2013
New books on Cuban history, school desegregation, Jewish literature, a legendary folk music coffeehouse, the battle between the Hatfields and the McCoys, Islamophobia in America, and more.
‘We Shall Overcome’: Pete Seeger remembers
Pete Seeger discusses the song “We Shall Overcome” with Bill Ferris, author of “The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists.”
Living with Joy: New book chronicles alum’s journey with Lou Gehrig’s disease
When veteran journalist Susan Spencer-Wendel (international studies ’88) was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) in summer 2011, she was determined to write her own ending to her life story.
Of special friendships, from childhood to beyond
I have a friendship that reminds me of the one Carolina alums Susan Spencer-Wendel and Nancy Maas Kinnally share in Susan’s memoir, “Until I Say Goodbye.”