‘How Barry Hannah Changed the American Short Story Forever’

“Hannah blasted the form out of the Joycean model of epiphany – whereby a short story seeks to impart to its characters, or readers, a hard-earned kernel of revelation – toward a more ecstatic model of release: The men and women in Hannah’s fiction, often at great cost, stumble upon – or crowbar their way into – moments of escape, explosion, literal flight, even transcendence.”