Speaking of cool and crazy literary events, the literary blog HTML Giant is doing something totally nuts this Sunday to celebrate the publication of Long, Last, Happy: New and Selected Stories by Barry Hannah, which comes out tomorrow from Grove/ Atlantic. HTML Giant blogger Kyle Minor will be reading the book in its entirety in a live Webcast, which will not be recorded. This feat is expected to take 15-25 hours, in what will surely be a powerful tribute to a literary master, and a strain on Mr. Minor’s voice.
Here‘s more info. The reading will start at midnight on Sunday and continue until it’s over.
Long, Last, Happy is the posthumous selection of stories from all of Hannah’s previous books, plus a few new stories. Hannah was, of course, a major influence on the contemporary short story. He died in March (here‘s his NYT obit, and our post anticipating this book, and here’s our starred review).
