THE ODDITORIUM SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST STORIES COLLECTION OF THE YEAR O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE "TITLE TO PICK UP NOW" and "BOOK OF THE WEEK" In each of these eight genre-bending tales, Melissa Pritchard overturns the conventions of mysteries, westerns, gothic horror, and historical fiction to capture surprising [ ]. Very few short story collections are as ambitious and successful as Melissa Pritchard's The Odditorium. First of all, Melissa Pritchard is smart. She almost frightens me, she's so smart. She does her research. She writes about the crimes of history, human psychology, the depths of the soul, and the memory of land (I mean that both ways: the land's memory and human memory of land). Think about a story with /5. · Melissa Pritchard’s aptly titled The Odditorium (Bellevue; paperback, $) considers the inner lives of the strange, the damaged and the forgotten. The title story, about a museum of the Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
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 ). Among other honors, her books have received the Flannery O'Connor, Janet Heidinger Kafka, and Carl Sandburg. Melissa Pritchard is the author of eleven books, including a biography and collection of essays, Melissa Pritchard's first short story collection, Spirit Seizures, received the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Carl Sandburg Award, the James Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation and was named a New York Times Editor's Choice and Notable Book of the [ ]. Reading the stories in Melissa Pritchard's fourth collection of short fiction is like eating eight gorgeous confections, rich and dense. Best to savor these mordant, witty "curi-oddities" slowly.
THE ODDITORIUM SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST STORIES COLLECTION OF THE YEAR O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE "TITLE TO PICK UP NOW" and "BOOK OF THE WEEK" In each of these eight genre-bending tales, Melissa Pritchard overturns the conventions of mysteries, westerns, gothic horror, and historical fiction to capture surprising [ ]. Melissa Pritchard is the author of the novel Palmerino, the short story collection The Odditorium, and the essay collection A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write, among other books. She has 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. “A writer at the height of her powers.” ―www.doorway.ru each of these eight lyrical and baroque tales, Melissa Pritchard transports readers into spine-tingling milieus that range from the astounding realm of Robert LeRoy Ripley’s “odditoriums” to the courtyard where Edgar Allan Poe once played as a child.
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