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Barry Hannah
04.23.1942 - 03.01.2010Barry Hannah was a Mississippi-based novelist, short-story writer and essayist. The author of numerous books, including Airships and Geronimo Rex, his work has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, The Oxford American, and Esquire.
"Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night."
— Barry Hannah
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