Everything you need to understand or teach Airships by Barry Hannah.
Many of Hannah's stories deal with failed, frustrated affairs between men and women. Rarely does sex have anything to do with love. More often sex is a transaction, an instinct, or bribe.
Love is frequently an uneasy combination of responsibility, guilt, and lust.
Friendship between men, although it too usually derives from interdependence, offers considerably greater promise in Hannah's work than relationships between men and women.
Violence is commonplace in these stories. Those...