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MELISSA PRITCHARD

Official website of fiction writer and essayist Melissa Pritchard

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Essays

SELECTED ESSAYS

2015

“Still, God Helps You: Memories of a Sudanese Child Slave”
Ulyces, Paris
February 2015

“On Bibliomancy, Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, and the Eating Papers; or, Proust’s Porridge”
Conjunctions Magazine
“Notable Essay” Best American Essays 2015
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“The Allure of the Extreme”
Blog essay for PBS’s American Experience documentary, Robert Ripley: Believe It or Not!
January 6, 2015

2014

Circle of Friends: A Writer’s Soul-Searching Pilgrimage to Ethiopia’s Omo River Valley.
(With photography by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher)
Arrive: The Magazine for Northeast Business Travelers
July/August 2014

2013

“Still God Helps You: Memories of a Sudanese Child Slave”
Wilson Quarterly 
Summer 2013
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2011

“Puppy Love: My Dachshund, My Dear”
O, the Oprah Magazine
July 2011
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2010

“Finding Ashton”
O, The Oprah Magazine 
May 2010
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