…author herself. The physical distance did not matter. The students identified more with “Sweet Peas” and told me that it captured several universal points regarding man-woman and mother-daughter relationships. A few hours after the discussion, one of the students circulated an article she had written on daughter-mother bonding from a…
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Water and a Shell: The Almost Forgotten Work of Elizabeth Eaton Burton
…that is one of the great, if unrecognized, achievements of the 20th and 21st century. Perhaps the worker read an article or saw a painting or knew a woman artist he thought ought to be recognized. This snail-slow progression is easy to miss in the hurly-burly of modern life, but…
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Going Home
David Brooks’ column in the March 20th New York Times reports on a TED conference in Vancouver recently where the rock star Sting recounted a long dry period when he couldn’t write a song. His creativity revived after he began to think about his childhood in a town in the…
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Digging Up The Bones – The Blue Box
…Society, where many of the Bingham documents have found a home, I breathe once more and for the last time the faded scent of lives from the 19th and early 20th century, lives of women who devoted themselves to letter writing, to genealogies, and to maintaining relationships with everyone in…
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Eastern Standard – Cynthia Resor chats with author Sallie Bingham about “Little Brother”
Cynthia Resor chats with author Sallie Bingham about Little Brother, her account of her brother’s accidental death and misperceptions about the realities of wealth and privilege. This interview ran the week of September 1st, 2022 on WEKU’s Eastern Standard program, and runs 9 minutes, 25 seconds. Listen on the Eastern…
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Straight Man
…strength is the quiet authority with which Bingham writes, making her story disturbing, and disturbingly real. Reviews: “We’ve encountered men like Shelby Winn on campus, at parties, in the pages of John Updike and Phillip Roth, and in bed. He’s the needy exploiter, the cynic, the impotent lover of women…
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Small Victories
…York Times “The small victory is in making a choice, acting on your own destiny.” — The Los Angeles Times From an interview with the author… Question: “Your new novel concerns the myths that a powerful, wealthy Southern family creates. Why are these families elevated to an almost royal status?”…
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Transgressions: Stories
…are told with a sober reticence and the authority of real-life ambiguity; confusions of desire and morality, ambition and regret underlie each beautifully crafted tale. Transgressions: Stories Written by: Sallie Bingham Date published: 2002 Published by: Sarabande Books URL: www.sarabandebooks.org ISBN: 1889330922 Pages: 200 Binding(s): Paperback Price: $ 13.95 Sallie…
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Cory’s Feast
…ISBN: 0865344795 Pages: 324 Binding(s): Hardcover Price: $ 13.95 Part murder mystery, part adventure, this ground-breaking novel traces the mature lives of Cory and her much more conventional sister Apple, who first appeared in the author’s Matron of Honor, described by Publishers Weekly as “A powerful novel, her best yet.”…
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Red Car
Forty-year veteran of the novel, noted feminist, and author of over ten books, Sallie Bingham returns with Red Car, a collection written in her signature style-discreet, sly prose circling taboo subjects. Her new offering is about love enjoyed, whether alone or with lovers, sensual or familial, comedic or tragic, often…
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