A Short Ride: Remembering Barry Hannah 30+ essays celebrating the spectacular life of Barry Hannah
Dec 9, 2012
Neil White (Author), Brad Watson (Author), Jim Dees (Author), Glennray Tutor (Author, Illustrator), Louis Bourgeois (Editor)
Publisher: Nautilus Publishing
Publication Date: November, 2012
30+ essays celebrating the spectacular life of Barry Hannah. Contributors include Brad Watson, Dan Williams, Ron Shapiro, Jim Dees, M.O. Walsh and Glennray Tutor. Plus, never-before-seen interviews with America’s short story master.
Once called “the maddest writer in the USA” by
Truman Capote, Hannah greatly affected the lives of those around him and contributed
to the careers of countless writers. He authored several critically acclaimed
and best-selling books, including Bats
Out of Hell, Geronimo Rex, and Airships.
With an foreword by author Neil
White, this collection of 39 short essays by fellow writers, artists,
acquaintances, admirers, friends, and even once-enemies of Barry Hannah covers
a spectrum of viewpoints on the extraordinary writer and man that he was. In
his essay, artist Glennray Tutor remembers a time when he and Barry decided to
rescue an abandoned speedboat from the clutches of time and kudzu—with Tutor
performing the hard labor and Hannah verbally overseeing the process. Oxford resident
Ron Shapiro writes of his adventures with his close friend, including spending
an evening over drinks with Jack Nicholson and Hunter S. Thompson.
Barry
Hannah was a man who escaped explanation. A
Short Ride outlines his talent and character, highlighting the various
facets of his personality, by combining colorful and often-contradictory
viewpoints—resulting in a compilation of essays worthy of the infinitely
complex man. In his introduction, Neil White writes, “I knew two Barry Hannahs.
One was drunk, rowdy, tormented and indecent. The other was sober, gentle,
charming and generous. Both were spectacular.”
Idgie Says:
Some people you "know about" but never get to know. Here's a chance to get to "know" Barry Hannah. A man who taught in Oxford for 28 years, wrote many novels and short stories and apparently knew just about everyone. But there was always the wall between the "knowing of" and the "knowing". If you have interest in getting to watch that wall drop, here's your chance to do so.
Idgie Says:
Some people you "know about" but never get to know. Here's a chance to get to "know" Barry Hannah. A man who taught in Oxford for 28 years, wrote many novels and short stories and apparently knew just about everyone. But there was always the wall between the "knowing of" and the "knowing". If you have interest in getting to watch that wall drop, here's your chance to do so.
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