In her 1981 collection of stories, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Ellen Gilchrist writes about New Orleans as no other writer. Laced with envy, greed, lust, terror, and self-deceit, her stories will sh
Enhanced with fifteen new essays, the benchmark of an acclaimed writer's spunk and sense of place Ellen Gilchrist has amassed a nationwide following, and her readers eagerly anticipate each new short
“The stories in Acts of God are great postcards from the world of Ellen Gilchrist. It’s a world of war and strife and surprises, and it is, yes, marvelous to behold.” —The New York Times Book ReviewCe
The women in the Hand family are no strangers to either controversy or sadness. Those traits seem, in fact, to be a part of their family’s Southern heritage, one that stretches back through several ge
With all the poignancy, hilarity, and wisdom that are the hallmarks of her fiction, Ellen Gilchrist introduces a gallery of unforgettable characters-Southern women and men whose off-kilter lives are d
The critically acclaimed author of Victory Over Japan offers an anthology of twenty new short stories that range in setting from a Los Angeles medical clinic that caters solely to hypochondriacs to th
