Carolina Alumni Review - January/February 2010

BOOKS
Crave: Why You Binge Eat
and How to Stop

by Cynthia M. Bulik
Binge eating affects more than
8 million people in the U.S. Bulik, a
renowned expert on binge eating, uses
her nearly 30 years of expertise and the
stories of patients to explain food cravings
and how to handle them. Readers can
learn why they crave certain foods and
“curb the crave” techniques, as well as
how to practice good eating habits and
increase physical activity. Bulik is Distin-
guished Professor of eating disorders in
the UNC School of Medicine, a nutrition
professor in the UNC Gillings School of
Global Public Health and director of the
UNC Eating Disorders Program.

Long Story Short: Flash Fiction
by Sixty-Five of North Carolina’s
Finest Writers

edited by Marianne Gingher
The collection gathers short stories
from 65 of North Carolina’s best contem-
porary writers, from Doris Betts ’ 54,
Orson Scott Card and Fred Chappell to
Sarah Dessen ’ 93, Lee Smith, Elizabeth
Spencer and Daniel Wallace ’08. The
fictional stories combine comedy, tragedy,
brevity, magic and surprise to keep readers
engaged. Gingher is an assistant professor
of English and comparative literature at
UNC and former head of the creative
writing program.

BESTSELLERS BULL’S HEAD BOOKSHOP

November 2009

Fiction
1. Long Story Short
edited by Assistant Professor
Marianne Gingher
2. Nightlight
by the staff
of the Harvard Lampoon
3. The Wet Nurse’s Tale
by Erica Eisdorfer
4. The Lost Symbol
by Dan Brown
5. The Gathering Storm
by Robert Jordan
6. Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
7. Look Homeward, Angel
by Thomas Wolfe ’ 20
8. Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
9. Going Away Shoes
by Jill McCorkle ’ 80
10. Hush, Little Baby
by Marla Frazee
The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs
and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith
From 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
by Sam Stephenson ’ 89

In 1957, Eugene Smith left behind his job at Life to move into a loft building on New York’s 6th Avenue. The building was a late-night haunt of musicians — including Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus — pimps, thieves, cops and even Norman Mailer and Salvador Dalí. By 1965, Smith had made roughly 40,000 pictures of his offbeat surroundings and 4,000 hours of tape capturing more than 300 musicians. Stephenson spent seven years working with those photographs and tapes for this book, through which people will see this part of Smith’s career for the first time. Stephenson is director of the Jazz Loft Project at the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies.

A Place for Meaning: Art, Faith
and Museum Culture
by Amanda Millay Hughes ’ 94 and Car-
olyn Harwood Wood ’ 89 (PhD)

Readers get an inside look at the Ackland Art Museum as it grapples with providing meaning to the presentation of multicultural collections with sacred substance. Hughes and Wood follow more than 30 professionals — from museum directors and curators to educators, scholars and faith leaders from across America — who engaged in a multiyear conversation about the possibilities, obstacles and benefits of creating a secular ground to explore art and world religions. The book includes more than 80 color illustrations, essays and presentations by scholars and museum professionals.