A Solemn Pleasure [electronic resource] : To Imagine, Witness, and Write

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pritchard, Melissa.

Series:

Art of the Essay

The Art of the Essay

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authorship.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Storytelling.

Local Subjects:

Authorship.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Storytelling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Melissa Pritchard is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novel Palmerino and the story collection The Odditorium, as well as the essay collection A Solemn Pleasure (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in 2015). Among other honors, her books have received the Flannery O'Connor, Janet Heidinger Kafka, and Carl Sandburg awards and two of her short fiction collections were New York Times Notable Book and Editors' Choice selections. Pritchard has worked as a journalist in Afghanistan, India, and Ethiopia, and her nonfiction has appeared in various publications, including O, The

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; A Room in London; Spirit and Vision; From the Deep South to the Desert South: An Epiphyte's Confession; On Kaspar Hauser; Time and Biology: On the Threshold of the Sacred; Elephant in the Dark; The Gift of Warwick; Doxology; A Solemn Pleasure; A Graven Space; Decomposing Articles of Faith; Finding Ashton; "Still, God Helps You": Memories of a Sudanese Child Slave; Circle of Friends; On Bibliomancy, Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, and the Eating Papers; or, Proust's Porridge; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-934137-97-9