{"id":3976,"date":"2012-09-19T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T14:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=3976"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:33:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:33:51","slug":"bookshelffall2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=3976","title":{"rendered":"College Bookshelf"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carolina will hold a gathering Oct. 7 to honor the late Doris Betts. (photo by Dan Sears).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On April 21, UNC lost one of its literary luminaries with the passing of creative writing professor Doris Betts, UNC Alumni Distinguished Professor Emerita. Carolina will host a gathering in her honor and memory Oct. 7 at 3 p.m. at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDoris Betts was an extremely serious and unsentimental artist, a candid and powerful teacher, a devoted and constant friend, and a profound warmth and joy underlay it all. Her advice and counsel were the best there was, and if one person could really help another get through sad, tough, trying times, she was that one. Legendary were her genius for friendship, her compassion, her capacity for work, and her tenacity in crafting the clearest and most compelling prose. She was as a literary artist the same way she was as a woman: direct, penetrating, surprising and wise.\u201d Bland Simpson, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing<\/em><\/p>\n

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Books<\/strong> (fall 2012)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth<\/strong> (Harper Collins<\/em>) by Bart Ehrman. Just when you thought you had UNC\u2019s agnostic religious studies scholar figured out (he enjoys debunking sacred texts), Bart Ehrman has a surprise in store. His newest book provides persuasive historic evidence that Jesus, the man, was for real.\u00a0 And it\u2019s a page-turner. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies.<\/p>\n

Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War<\/strong> (UNC Press<\/em>) by Bland Simpson. A born storyteller fascinated by coastal history, Simpson weaves together the lives of two 19th<\/sup> century mariners who never met \u2014 an African-American and an Irish-American. It\u2019s a real-life saga of race, hardship and conflict in the Civil War-era South. Simpson is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing and longtime member of the Tony Award-winning Red Clay Ramblers.<\/p>\n

Woody Durham: A Tar Heel Voice <\/em><\/strong>(John F. Blair<\/em>) by Woody Durham\u201963 with Adam Lucas \u201903. Our State<\/em> magazine once said this about the long-time radio play-by-play man known as the \u201cVoice of the Tar Heels:\u201d \u201cTo his listeners, he\u2019s what powder blue sounds like.\u201d In this autobiography, Durham takes readers behind the scenes with the coaches and players he worked with during his 30-year tenure.<\/p>\n

The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs and Music<\/strong> (W. W. Norton & Company<\/em>) by Tom Piazza with an introduction by William Ferris. More than 50 years ago, Lomax traveled the South, uncovering little-known backcountry and blues music, with his camera as his constant companion. This new volume features a collection of 65 largely unpublished photographs. Ferris discusses the life and career of the man known for introducing musicians like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Muddy Waters and Burl Ives to a mass audience. Ferris is the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward<\/strong> (LSU Press<\/em>) by Ruth Salvaggio. While sifting through trash in her flooded New Orleans home, Salvaggio discovered an old volume of Sappho\u2019s poetry that was stained with muck and mold. In her efforts to restore the book, Salvaggio realized that the process reflected how the Greek poet\u2019s own words were unearthed from the refuse of the ancient world. The UNC professor of English and comparative literature sets out to recover the city\u2019s rich poetic heritage while searching through its flooded debris.<\/p>\n

Enduring Injustice<\/strong> (Cambridge University Press<\/em>) by Jeff Spinner-Halev. Governments today often apologize for past injustices, and scholars increasingly debate the issue, with many calling for apologies and reparations. Spinner-Halev, UNC Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics, argues that there are \u201cenduring injustices\u201d \u2014 those that begin in the past, continue today and will continue into the future unless specifically addressed. A reviewer said \u201cThis is an insightful and provocative book by one of the country\u2019s most consistently interesting political theorists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnny Johnson<\/strong>, Series I, Volume 13 (Kurt Weill Foundation for Music<\/em>) edited by Tim Carter. Originally produced by the legendary Group Theatre in 1936, Johnny Johnson<\/em> (with book and lyrics by UNC playwright Paul Green) marked Weill\u2019s first contribution to American musical theater. UNC musicologist Carter draws on a variety of surviving source material for this volume, including not only Weill\u2019s manuscripts but also rehearsal scores and sets of instrumental parts, to bring this edition to full score. Carter is David G. Frey Distinguished Professor of Music.<\/p>\n

Neighbors and Other Strangers<\/strong> (Mint Hill Books<\/em>) by Ruth Moose. Women in small-town life are the characters that populate this new collection of short stories \u2014 like Loretta, who makes a lemon pie with tofu for the second wedding of her first boyfriend. One reviewer wrote: \u201cRuth Moose is gifted with an unfailing ear for conversation, a sharp eye for details, a sympathetic heart and a wit Mark Twain would approve.\u201d Moose has retired from UNC\u2019s creative writing faculty.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip Hop DJ<\/strong> (Oxford University Press<\/em>) by Mark Katz. It\u2019s all about \u201cthe scratch\u201d in this new book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ. \u00a0Katz (chair of UNC\u2019s music department and an amateur DJ) delves into the fascinating world of the DJ, tracing the art of the turntable from its humble beginnings in the Bronx in the 1970s to its place in global culture today. DJs discuss a wide range of topics, including the transformation of the turntable from a playback device to an instrument in its own right.<\/p>\n

The Tree of Forgetfulness<\/strong> (LSU Press<\/em>) by Pam Durban.\u00a0In her new novel,\u00a0UNC\u2019s Doris Betts Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing recovers the largely untold story of a brutal Jim Crow-era triple lynching in rural South Carolina.\u00a0By interweaving several characters\u2019 voices, Durban produces a complex narrative that resurrects a troubled past and the individuals who chose silence over justice.<\/p>\n

The Evening Hour<\/strong> (Bloomsbury USA<\/em>) by Carter Sickels. The coal-mining world of Dove, Creek, W.Va,. vividly comes to life in this debut novel by UNC alum Sickels (M.A. folklore \u201910). Born and raised there, 27-year-old Cole Freeman has sidestepped work as a miner to become an aide in a nursing home. He\u2019s also a drug dealer, reselling prescription drugs his older patients give him. Freeman has always dreamed of leaving, but when disaster befalls his hometown, he is forced to confront his fears and take decisive action.<\/p>\n

27 Views of Asheville<\/strong> and 27 Views of Durham<\/strong> (Eno Publishers). Authors with UNC ties contribute to the third and fourth in this series of anthologies of contemporary Southern towns. In Asheville, writers address everything from UNC alumnus Thomas Wolfe\u2019s powerful legacy to the town\u2019s celebrated Art Deco architecture. UNC creative writing professor Michael McFee\u2019s poem, \u201cMcCormick Field\u201d tells of the time Babe Ruth fainted right after his arrival in Asheville. Durham writers capture the essence of the city known for its tobacco, diversity, sports and grit. UNC folklore M.A. grad and News & Observer<\/em> columnist Jim Wise opens the Durham anthology with the piece \u201cA Sense of Place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Buenas Noches, American Culture<\/strong> (Indiana University Press<\/em>) by Mar\u00eda DeGuzm\u00e1n. Often treated like the night itself \u2014 both visible and invisible \u2014 Latina\/os make up the largest minority group in the U.S. In her newest work, DeGuzm\u00e1n explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Central and South America, and the U.S., calling into question night\u2019s effect on the formation of identity for Latina\/os. She is professor of English and comparative literature and director of Latina\/o studies at UNC.<\/p>\n

Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars\u2019 Club <\/strong>(UNC Press<\/em>) by Christopher B. Teuton, with Hastings Shade, Sammy Still, Sequoyah Guess and Woody Hansen. This collection features 40 interwoven stories, conversations and teachings about Western Cherokee life, beliefs and the art of storytelling, known in the Cherokee language as gagoga,<\/em> literally translated as \u201che or she is lying.\u201d The book reveals how the members of the Liars\u2019 Club understand the power and purposes of oral traditional stories. Teuton, a member of the Cherokee Nation, is UNC associate professor of American studies.<\/p>\n

Colonial Entanglement<\/strong> (UNC Press<\/em>) by Jean Dennison. From 2004 to 2006, the Osage Nation conducted a contentious governmental reform process in which sharply differing visions arose over the new government\u2019s goals, the Nation\u2019s own history and what it means to be Osage. UNC anthropologist Dennison, a member of the Osage Nation, brings to light the many complexities of defining indigenous citizenship and governance in the 21st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Renegades<\/strong> (Putnam<\/em>) by Tom Young. A catastrophic earthquake ravages Afghanistan, and American trops rush to deliver aid, among them Afghan Air Force adviser Lieutenant Colonel Michael Parson and his interpreter, Sergeant Major Sophia Gold. The devastation facing them is like nothing they\u2019ve ever seen, however \u2014 and it\u2019s about to get worse. This is the third in a series by Young (RTVMP B.A. \u201983, M.A. \u201987) who has logged nearly 4,000 hours for the Air National Guard in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

[College Bookshelf appears in the fall 2012 issue of <\/em>Carolina Arts & Sciences magazine. ]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fall books include a page-turner from Bart Ehrman, a tribute to Woody Durham and poems from New Orleans, plus books on the fascinating world of the hip-hop DJ, Cherokee stories, life in a West Va. coal-mining town; and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-arts-humanities","category-natural-sciences-mathematics","category-social-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45544,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions\/45544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}