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‘Queen of Katwe’ Author Featured at Chapel Hill Public Library

Posted by Staff | Apr 19, 2017 | News Around Town

Tim Crothers is a UNC professor and sportswriter. He’s a former senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He’s written a book on Roy Williams. He’s written a book on UNC women’s soccer coach Anson Dorrance. But he’s mostly known as...

Books for Trump and Clinton

Posted by D.G. Martin | Aug 30, 2016 | D.G. Martin

Could reading a few North Carolina connected books help Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton be better candidates, campaigners, and debaters during the next couple of months? I think so. If Trump read UNC-Chapel Hill Professor...

Books for summer: Mountains and Military

Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 21, 2016 | D.G. Martin

If you want some more tips for good summer reading from recent books by North Carolina authors, I have four suggestions, two set in the mountains, two about our military. An obvious choice if you are planning a trip to the...

Spring reading: Food, basketball, race, waterways, politics, and a new literary thriller

Posted by D.G. Martin | Mar 22, 2016 | D.G. Martin

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What book for the perfect gift this season?

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 8, 2015 | D.G. Martin

Have you seen the TV ad with George Foreman? “People ask me all the time, George, how do I get my idea in front of companies?” Well, this time of year people ask me all the time, “DG, what is a good book for me to give this...

Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Chapel Hill in the Bush 41 Biography

Posted by D.G. Martin | Dec 1, 2015 | D.G. Martin

“Were you surprised that so much of the public attention to your book has been focused on President George H.W. Bush’s unflattering comments about the roles of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney...

Our holiday longing for home

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 24, 2015 | D.G. Martin

“There is something about the holidays,” says Chapel Hill minister Bob Dunham, “that stirs memories and longing for home. “Even if they are better in memory than they were in reality.” He explained that student homesickness is...

An important author’s struggles can help his readers

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 10, 2015 | D.G. Martin

You can’t go home again. This is what Thomas Wolfe learned after his thinly disguised autobiographical novel cast some of his family and neighbors in Asheville in unflattering roles. It is always dangerous for a successful...

Good for Nicholas Sparks, good for North Carolina

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 20, 2015 | D.G. Martin

“My books are all different,” Nicholas Sparks, the No. 1 New York Times best selling author who lives in New Bern, told a group of 500 fans at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Alumni Center last week. Except, he says, for two things. One is...

Wearing a Black Doctor’s White Coat

Posted by D.G. Martin | Oct 12, 2015 | D.G. Martin

“Why do black people suffer more health problems than other groups? What do these challenges mean in their everyday lives? How do their struggles play out before a largely white medical community? How can we begin to solve these...

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