Barry Hannah Quote

Miserable novels bore me. I don't want to read a miserable book about misery. I do tend toward a tragicomic view, which is, I guess, a modern mind-set—that things can have the capacity for huge comedy and awful pathos at the same time.


The Paris Review, Issue 172, Winter 2004, The Art of Fiction No. 184


Miserable novels bore me. I don't want to read a miserable book about misery. I do tend toward a tragicomic view, which is, I guess, a modern...

Miserable novels bore me. I don't want to read a miserable book about misery. I do tend toward a tragicomic view, which is, I guess, a modern...

Miserable novels bore me. I don't want to read a miserable book about misery. I do tend toward a tragicomic view, which is, I guess, a modern...

Miserable novels bore me. I don't want to read a miserable book about misery. I do tend toward a tragicomic view, which is, I guess, a modern...