In these twelve stories, Bingham travels from the beaches of Normandy shortly after the second World War, to modern-day Brittany, Santa Fe, Florida, and Southern Colorado to situate her wide range of characters.
Books and Plays by Sallie Bingham
Sallie's complete collection of books and plays, in chronological order.
Treason
(2006)
Treason covers two and half decades in Pound’s life, travels from Italy to Washington, D.C., and introduces characters as varied as segregationist John Kasper and “beat” poet Allen Ginsberg.
The Hub of the Miracle
Sunstone Press (2006) — Poetry
Sallie Bingham’s poems seek, always, to connect. The events of ordinary life–walking in the woods around Santa Fe, lighting a fire in a stove–merge with the crises of maturity: death
Nick of Time
Sunstone Press (2006) — Fiction
Melanie is a dancer-the most unlikely dancer in the world, a woman who has had a hard life, waitressing, raising a son alone, putting up with an abusive husband. Late
Cory’s Feast
Sunstone Press (2005) — Fiction
Cory is a middle-aged Easterner, long-divorced, energetic and fearlessly sensual. Pursuing a dream she has nursed for years, she moves to Taos, New Mexico and buys a famous old house
Transgressions: Stories
Sarabande Books (2002) — Fiction
In her wise and sexy collection, Sallie Bingham examines modern-day “transgressions” in affairs of the heart. She offers up a ménage à trois, an older woman’s affair with a student,
Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories
University Press of Kentucky (7/1/2001) — Anthologies
Morris Grubbs has sifted through vintage classics, little-known gems, and stunning debuts to assemble this collection of forty stories by popular and critically acclaimed writers. In subtle and profound ways they challenge and overturn accepted stereotypes about the land their authors call home, whether by birth or by choice. Kentucky writers have produced some of the finest short stories published in the last fifty years, much of which focuses on the tension between the comforts of community and the siren-like lure of the outside world.
Straight Man
Zoland Books (1996) — Fiction
Though the title of Bingham’s new novel suggests one half of a comedy team, the feelings of the protagonist, Louisville college professor Colby Winn, are no joke. When Colby picks
Piggyback
(1994)
Play about the Kentucky Poet and balladeer John Jacob Niles, and his relationship with the photographer Doris Ulmann; based on the photo of Niles helping Ulmann cross Cutshin Creek in 1932.
Matron of Honor
Zoland Books (1994) — Fiction
As in her previous novels, Bingham concerns herself with family relationships, and in many ways revisits the tensions of her own well-known Kentucky clan, which she chronicled in the nonfiction