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	Printable Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		OXFORD (AP) - Author and professor Barry Hannah is being treated for an undisclosed illness in an intensive care unit at a Texas hospital, his wife, Susan Hannah, said Thursday through a family spokesperson.
		Hannah, an acclaimed author who has won numerous awards and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in fiction, had been teaching creative writing at the University of Mississippi.
		Hannah, a Clinton native, took leave from the University of Mississippi after accepting a one-year position as writer-in-residence at Texas State University-San Marcos.
	www.picayuneitem.com /articles/2005/03/18/news/15hannah.prt (224 words)

	JS Online: Madness, sin fill brilliant 'Yonder' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is a particularly dark and ugly world that Hannah has created in his ninth novel, with pornographers taking advantage of children, individuals ruined by casinos turning to thriving pawnshops, grotesque TV evangelists, people stabbing each other, adults looking for happiness everywhere, even in depravity.
		Hannah possesses an ebullient brain, and his book is a mlange of burlesque and tragedy.
		Hannah is gutsy to do so, since the man is the most far-fetched of the bunch and therefore the most difficult for the reader to understand and to care for.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/reviews/jul01/bk.yon08070601.asp?format=print (519 words)

	Barry Hannah -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Barry Hannah, author of novels and short stories, was born in 1942 in (Click link for more info and facts about Clinton, Mississippi) Clinton, Mississippi.
		Hannah’s first novel, Geromino Rex, won the (United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)) William Faulkner Prize and was nominated for the (Click link for more info and facts about National Book Award) National Book Award.
		Barry Hannah resides in (Click link for more info and facts about Oxford, Mississippi) Oxford, Mississippi.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Ba/Barry_Hannah.htm (217 words)

	Nordlit
		In Barry Hannah's novel Ray, the protagonist by the same name is simultaneously a Vietnam and a Civil War veteran and his memory is cluttered with events from both wars.
		Again, this is not to say that Hannah is presenting a secular version of O'Connor's world, both writers, I think, are dealing with spiritual movement in their employment of the vertical chronotope.
		In Hannah's work, however, there is seldom any moral or narrative judgment telling us who is looking through the wrong end of the telescope, and the characters are given more freedom of movement in the here and now of the contemporary world.
	www.hum.uit.no /nordlit/1/kleppe.html (4808 words)

	A South of ghosts, ghouls and zombies
		Even though Mississippi writer Barry Hannah's novels have won him a host of accolades, including the PEN/Faulkner Award and two nominations for the National Book Award, he is still probably the only author in America whose short-story collections outsell his longer narratives.
		Hannah is the South's most generous maximalist; his prose style is designed to explore the nature of obsessive behavior if not outright induce it.
		Despite Hannah stretching realism to its limits with his gun-toting orphans and undead fishermen, there is a sense that he is seriously grappling with the relationship among suffering, mortality and spirituality.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/07/08/RV237988.DTL&type=printable (686 words)

	Bookreporter.com - YONDER STANDS YOUR ORPHAN by Barry Hannah
		Barry Hannah is a wild man. Although he has given up the alcohol that fueled some of his wilder escapades (including an episode where, when confronted with his car filling with water during a rainstorm, he riddled the floorboard with bullets to drain it), the fire still burns.
		Hannah's style is reminiscent of Pynchon and Vonnegut, yet he is by no means imitative of or slavish to either of those gentlemen.
		I was so caught up in Hannah's turn of phrase and use of language, for purposes both humorous and horrific, that I could not stop reading.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0871138115.asp (543 words)

	Shift People : Barry Hannah
		Barry has a Graduate Diploma in Multimedia from Auckland University of Technology.
		Barry joined Shift Auckland in 2004 and has been involved on some big exciting projects, including the interactive TVC and Travel Planner for newzealand.com
		Barry is obsessed with the modern movement and its continuing influence on design be it graphic, type, architecture, furniture, lighting...
	www.shift.co.nz /people/barry.html (151 words)

	village voice > books > by Ben Marcus
		Word has it that Barry Hannah once pulled a gun on a classroom of writing students, and not because they sucked.
		Hannah's first novel in 10 years should finally rescue him from the dubious ghetto some critics have created for fine story writers whose novels have failed to win a larger following.
		It's a shame that Hannah has so little contemporary competition, because his readers may be out of shape for such richness, such relentless, hell-bent writing.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0131,marcus,26809,10.html (579 words)

	Metro Pulse/Gamut/Barry Hannah
		Hannah’s book jackets are covered with quotes, perpetuated by articles like this one, hailing Hannah as carrying on the Southern gothic tradition established by O’Connor and Faulkner.
		That Hannah is so admired by his contemporaries in modern literature is a sign of his value, but his style and subject matter isn’t for the faint of heart.
		Hannah has been writing influential Southern literature for more than 30 years, and an interviewer would be foolish to ask how he does it—or expect an answer.
	www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2004/1415/t_gamut.html (1277 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Southern Destroyer
		Hannah says "yeah right" in a different way than the rest of us do, and he says it all of the time, like the rest of us might say "you know" or "got it" or "OK," or like Cagney would say "see." It begins and ends a significant percentage of his sentences.
		In her Barry Hannah: Postmodern Romantic (LSU Press, 1998), Ruth D. Weston writes that "Hannah is having more fun than anyone with his writing, although his enjoyment must be as double-edged as are some of the tragicomic episodes he relates.
		Barry Hannah and I are walking to William Faulkner's house.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2003-02-21/books_feature.html (4292 words)

	Barry Hannah, Mississippi Writer from Clinton, Mississippi, and Writer-in-Residence at Ole Miss
		Hannah's style is described in Drew Limsky's article as "...drawn to the festering rural misfit--the 40-year old at the end of the bar who's scratching his beard stubble and wondering why he didn't amount to much." Hannah himself has said that he prefers writing short stories to novels, and states that "Teaching inspires me...
		Hannah just shows the good side of life and the bad in a style that is amusing to the reader.
		Hannah gets a lot of criticism for some of his work, but I think he is one of Mississippi's most distinguished authors with an interesting writing style that is fun to read.
	shs.ee.msstate.edu /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Hannah.html (1344 words)

	National Initiatives: Operation Homecoming - National Endowment for the Arts Hosts Operation Homecoming Workshops at ...
		Barry Hannah is Director of the M.F.A. Program and Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi.
		Hannah has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Robert Penn Warren Lifetime Achievement Award, and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
		Barry Hannah will lead the first writing workshop on Tuesday, January 11, from 2-4 pm CST at Hurlburt Field Chapel, 210 Cody Avenue, Room 8.
	arts.endow.gov /national/homecoming/pressreleases/hurlburt.html (846 words)

	Barry Hannah, Postmodern Romantic by Ruth D. Weston, ISBN 0807122904 And Spider-Man 3-Wheel Scooter
		Mississippi writer Barry Hannah has published, over twenty-five years, eleven works of fiction of such complexity, verve, and linguistic virtuosity that the time for extensive critical attention and celebration has unquestionably arrived.
		And yet, Hannah is by temperament a romantic writer, nostalgic and possessed of a great sadness imbued with an irrational optimism.
		Weston identifies and explores four major aspects of his fiction in light of this romantic/postmodern dichotomy: the theme of adolescent initiation; the theme of search for self; an interest in characters with distorted visions and lives; and an intertextual relation to a panorama of literary genres and styles.
	janwyck.com /barry.htm (314 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Ray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Barry Hannah is the kind of writer people either love or hate; he doesn't leave a lot of middle ground.
		Hannah doesn't beat up Shakespeare, but he musters up a fierce, admirable assault: "Sabers, gentlemen, sabers!" The novel isn't perfect -- it isn't Shakespeare -- but the writing is so alive, so strong, that it feels right filthy to root in the muck for a word of criticism.
		Barry Hannah is no doubt one of the most talented writers in America today, and although most of his other works are fiction on a very high level, none of them reach the heights where "Ray" soars as a lone eagle.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802133878?v=glance (1440 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Airships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hannah is a sharp and strong and quite powerful writer and he has an ability to strip away characters until they are a raw,bloody pulp.
		Hannah is talented and he touches on some irresistable themes.
		Barry Hannah is a great Southern writer, to be sure, but he's also just a flat out great writer.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802133886?v=glance (1252 words)

	National Initiatives: Operation Homecoming - Barry Hannah
		Born in Clinton, Mississippi, in 1942, Barry Hannah earned a B.A. from Mississippi College and a M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas.
		Philip Roth called these war stories "masterpieces of their kind." The following year, Hannah was honored with the prestigious Award in Literature from the American Institute of Arts and Letters.
		Hannah is Director of the M.F.A. Program and Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, and has won a Guggenheim, the Robert Penn Warren Lifetime Achievement Award, and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
	arts.endow.gov /national/homecoming/authorbios/hannah.html (238 words)

	Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
		Barry Hannah: I was [influenced] in the matter of good nouns, good verbs, clean pictures, and allowing the reader to read between the lines-read the white spaces on the page.
		At that point, Hannah had to get ready to teach his class at the University of Mississippi, but I felt that during our short conversation we really bonded homosocially while dismissing the critics.
		I should admit, however, in fairness to Barry Hannah, that I was so upset with the state of criticism at the time that I may have unconsciously steered the conversation in an anti-critical direction.
	www.corpse.org /issue_8/critiques/rose.htm (1159 words)

	Barry Hannah
		Barry Hannah's southern gothic yarns combine the easy speech of back porch gossip with winding, baroque complexity.
		Born in Clinton, MS, the 54-year-old Hannah is a writer in residence at the University of Mississippi.
		Barry Hannah will be reading on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at Borders Book Shop, 1727 Walnut St., 568-7400.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/112896/article001.shtml (946 words)

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		Hannah: Things fl, things cowboy, things Southern seem to be very special in France now.
		It is made very explicit with a couple of the nonfiction stories from your latest collection, but it seems to have always been a part of your work.
		Hannah: Maybe I can contrast it to the hugely successful writer of the town, John Grisham.
	www.mississippireview.com /1997/interv2.html (6859 words)

	BookPage Interview July 2001: Barry Hannah
		Being orphaned, being lost and disenfranchised, however, is something Hannah understands and writes about with passion.
		More than he has in any of his previous works, Hannah explores the struggle between good and evil in Orphan, not just in the community around Eagle Lake, but within each of his characters, particularly Max Raymond.
		Hannah admits there's more than a little of himself in Raymond.
	www.bookpage.com /0107bp/barry_hannah.html (925 words)

	MWP: Barry Hannah (1942- )
		Hannah was born in Clinton, Mississippi, on April 23, 1942, and earned a B.A. from Mississippi College in 1964.
		Dan Williams, Hannah responded by saying that "Reading and writing train our people for logic, grace, and precision of thought, and begin a lifelong study of the exceptional in human existence.
		It is of little doubt that as Barry Hannah's career continues to blaze, the writing world will take notice of even more writers emerging from the skillful employment of his guidance.
	www.olemiss.edu /depts/english/ms-writers/dir/hannah_barry (1024 words)

	Steven E. Alford Book Review
		I don't know who is more intriguing, the hack biographer who rides around in his fl Riviera shooting people at random with his air rifle, or the love-struck teenage bricklayer who has to pull the acupuncture needles out of his aging girlfriend's liver while his rival waits downstairs.
		Readers of Barry Hannah's amazing new collection of short stories, Bats Out of Hell may not agree with my choice of favorite characters, but they will be faced with a similar dilemma: when they begin nattering on to their friends about this book, where will they begin?
		Hannah's Joycean experiments in dialect are less than successful, but amply compensated for elsewhere by his wonderfully crafted sentences, worthy of collecting.
	www.nova.edu /~alford/reviews/hannah.html (494 words)

	Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		He simply pushed his copy of my story back across the table at me with a single written note: "One Barry Hannah is enough." His criticism could not have been truer or more obvious.
		Hannah, on the other hand, never quit--not even after a book or three that insinuated he was possibly imitating himself.
		Hannah leaves the reader to wonder how exactly these people keep from drowning themselves just to be done with their many miseries.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2001fall/hannah.shtml (860 words)

	MWP Writer News (Dec. 17, 2003): Barry Hannah receives national fiction award
		Hannah received the award and read from his work Friday (Dec. 12) at the PEN/Faulkner Reading Series at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. “The award is pleasing but not surprising,” said Joseph Urgo, chair of the UM Department of English.
		“Barry Hannah is a major figure in the world of literature.
		Hannah received a master’s of fine arts degree in fiction and a master’s in English, both from the University of Arkansas.
	www.olemiss.edu /mwp/news/2003/2003_1217_hannahaward.html (337 words)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 92, H (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Long may/ you reign -- Barry Hannah." An excellent association: Lawrence became Hannah's publisher in the mid-1980's, and Hannah stayed with him until Lawrence died.
		Hannah's fourth book, third novel, nominated for the National Book Award.
		Harrison's third novel, measuring neither the 5 1/16" from spine cloth to board edge of the first state nor the 4 7/8" of the second state, but a solid and confusing 5" even.
	lopezbooks.com /catalog/92/92-05.html (2147 words)

	Hannah More -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The English religious writer Hannah More was best known as an author of popular tracts and as an educator of the poor.
		Like most of her educated contemporaries, More believed that society was static and that civilization depended upon a large body of the poor, for whom the best education was one that reconciled them to their fate.
		His wife, Hannah Hoes Van Buren, had died from tuberculosis 18 years before he became the country's eighth president in 1837, and he never remarried.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9330526 (636 words)

	Barry Hannah -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Hannah was educated at Mississippi College (B.A., 1964) and the University of Arkansas (M.A., 1966; M.F.A., 1967).
		U.S. playwright Philip Barry was best known for his comedies of life and manners among the socially privileged.
		A Roman Catholic institution, Barry was founded in 1940 by the Adrian Dominican nuns with help from Bishop Patrick Barry, Mother Mary Gerald Barry, Reverend William Barry, and Mayor John Thompson.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9000471?tocId=9000471&query=gianni (663 words)

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