Way it is Now

Literature & Fiction

Sallie Bingham

Short Stories & Anthologies

Constable

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 and, in the tradition of its previous owner, turns it into a crucible for the transformation of her guests. Eccentric and charming, with a lover from the Pueblo and lots of turquoise and broomstick skirts, Cory finds her guests, mainly skiers and tourists, bewildered by her particular philosophy, which she calls 'The School of As-If.' Then her long-time friend is found murdered and Cory is suspicious of the local police's half-hearted attempts to find the murderer. Involving herself in trying to solve the case, her unleashed power leads to surprising and even terrifying results. 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.'

Cory's Feast

Contemporary

Sunstone Press

Cory's Feast (Softcover)

Literary

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 in life, she decides to pursue one dream, a dream she can't afford, which her husband opposes: she will become a skilled ballroom dancer, moving to the old love songs that have never applied to her life. And she wants to learn to lead! As she takes lessons, scrapes up the money to pay for costumes, and prepares for her first competition, she faces increasing opposition. But she persists, entering the glamorous, demanding world of professional dancing with an innocence and a determination that will change her life.

Nick of Time (Hardcover)

Nick of Time (Softcover)

The definitive audiobook biography of Doris Duke, the legendary defiant and notorious tobacco heiress and philanthropist, from renowned author Sallie Bingham.As the founder of the Archive for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University’s Perkins Library, Sallie Bingham has been granted unprecedented access to the Doris Duke archive to present the life of this remarkable and complex woman.The inheritor of James Buchanan Duke’s billion dollar tobacco fortune, Doris was a shrewd businesswoman who tripled her father’s wealth. Over the course of her life, she would become infamous for successfully suing her own mother at age twelve, establishing her first foundation at twenty-one, and cultivating friendships with Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos, and Michael Jackson. With a strength of character forged during the Jazz Age, Duke took foreign lovers, worked as an early war correspondent, collected Islamic art, fought for the environment, surfed, and adopted a thirty-two-year old woman she believed to be the reincarnation of her deceased daughter.Spirited and perceptive, this biography dissects the stereotypes that have defined Duke’s story while confronting those disturbing questions that cleave to her legacy. The Silver Swan chronicles one of the great under-explored lives of the twentieth century and the very archetype of a modern woman.

The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke

MacMillan Audio

<b>Literary short stories by established and emerging writers</b>

Glimmer Train Stories, Issue 56 (Fall, 2005)

Abby Frucht

Alice Mattison

gina-ochsner

Matt Bondurant

Lucia Nevai

Jimmy Olsen

George Makana Clark

Oliver Broudy

Allyson Goldin

Katherine Vaz

Interview with Frederick Reiken

Eric Wasserman (interviewer)

Glimmer Train Press, Inc.

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