03041nam 22006613u 450 991082323050332120230807214528.01-934137-97-9(CKB)3710000000400989(EBL)1977226(SSID)ssj0001460007(PQKBManifestationID)11917380(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001460007(PQKBWorkID)11465227(PQKB)11257905(MiAaPQ)EBC1977226(EXLCZ)99371000000040098920150427d2015|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrA Solemn Pleasure[electronic resource] To Imagine, Witness, and WriteNew York Bellevue Literary Press20151 online resource (209 p.)The Art of the EssayDescription based upon print version of record.1-934137-96-0 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; AcknowledgmentsMelissa 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, TheArt of the EssayAuthorshipCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)StorytellingAuthorshipStorytellingCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)Languages & LiteraturesHILCCLiterature - GeneralHILCCAuthorship.Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).Storytelling.AuthorshipStorytellingCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)Languages & LiteraturesLiterature - General808.02LCO010000BIO026000LAN005000LIT007000bisacshPritchard Melissa1706748AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910823230503321A Solemn Pleasure4094434UNINA