Barry Hannah, the mind-blowing author of Airships and many other books, died Monday at age 67.
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Barry Hannah, 1942-2010
By Garth Risk Hallberg posted at 3:23 pm on March 3, 2010 1
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Garth Risk Hallberg is a staff writer for The Millions. He is the author of A Field Guide to the North American Family. His stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, New York Magazine, Slate, Canteen, Best New American Voices 2008, and Best of the Web 2008. He lives in Brooklyn.
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at 7:14 pm on March 3, 2010
Sad to see him go! “Airships” and “Geronimo Rex” changed the way I think about fiction. Barry Hannah was the real deal. The terrain of American letters shrinks with his passing.