Andre Dubus: A Study of the Short Fiction (Twayne's Studies in Short Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

KENNEDY, THOMAS E.

History & Criticism

Twayne Pub

Index to American Short Story Award Collections 1970-90

Reference

G.K. Hall

Fiction. All of our lives are unique explorations through uncharted landscapes of experience and emotion. Kerrigan, the eponymous hero of this novel, has been flattened many times in this journey, but in re-awakening, re-emerging in the place of his heart--the beating heart that is Copenhagen--the contours of his pain, his joy and his salvation, bubble up and become almost palpable on the pages of this magnificent novel. Thomas E. Kennedy's literary bar-hopping novel unveils the cultural history of one of Europe's most colorful capitals from bar to bar. Kennedy elevates the Danish capital to Joyce's Dublin. Kennedy is one of Denmark's leading American expats.

Kerrigan's Copenhagen

Contemporary

Frank/Wynkin de Worde

Kennedy’s expatriate life in Denmark assures him of fresh, lucid vision on his return trips to the states, especially during his New York sojourns. He can be wry, confused, indignant, comic…but what declares itself most is his openness to the odd, the out-of-the-way, the down-and-out, the tawdry, the fading, the provincial in the midst of the glitz, recalling for us the photos of Weegee (or, in another slice of America, Walker Evans) and the prose of Studs Terkel. This book is a small swig of 100-proof empathy. ALBERT GOLDBARTH In these sculptured essays, Kennedy will win your heart and beguile your mind as he proves once again that everyone has an interesting story to tell. Kennedy's synesthesia allows him to listen with his eyes and give us an artist’s brilliantly-tuned nuance for the harmonious sound of words. Call Riding the Dog a literary guide to the kindness, the paranoia, the civility and incivility of New York City and environs south and southeast. Meet those whose experiences and attitudes are tattooed literally and figuratively on their bodies denoting the difficult, down-to-earth, humanistic (sometimes barely human, occasionally spiritual) lives they've lived. DUFF BRENNA As with Orwell, Dickens, Gellhorn, and many others, Thomas E. Kennedy has pushed the essay form to its brightest moments, in which fact can have its poetry, its narrative, its characters, its emotion, and its intellectual integrity….This is Kennedy’s gift: language not as an instrument of explanation but as reality itself….We read these essays expecting to learn less about how we might think than how we might live.

Riding the Dog: A Look Back at America

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

New American Press

Thomas E. Kennedy, an American expatriate living in Denmark, has written a remarkable nonfiction novel in personal essays that explores the perils and marvels of the aging body and the eternal heart.

Last Night My Bed a Boat of Whiskey Going Down

Essays & Correspondence

Inspired by centuries of red hair lore, but especially the languorous photo on the front cover, nineteen authors created stories, poems, and an essay to reveal the special powers of the world’s redheads, the forces of their hold over the other 98 percent of humanity.

The Girl with Red Hair

Cummins, Walter

Literary

Serving House Books

"Kennedy's...characters are full, alive, and each story is rich and deep. He writes with wisdom, and it is perhaps this wisdom that turns some of his stories of great sorrow into something triumphant."        - Andre Dubus "Thomas E. Kennedy's . . . stories pulse with humor, moral edge, and a deep sympathy for the human predicament. . . . These stories come as a gift from across the sea of a fine writer's untamed imagination."      - James Carroll, National Book Award-winner "Thomas E. Kennedy's characters are smart, full of want, significantly flawed, scared, yet often hopeful. Readers can't help but be touched by the clarity and generosity that are the hallmarks of Kennedy's very literary and very human stories."        - Linda Swanson-Davies, Glimmer Train ". . . shimmering with emotional honesty . . ."          - The New York Times "...wide-ranging and assured..."        - The New Yorker "Thomas Kennedy is a true discovery, an author of rare intelligence and moral vision . . . compelling and beautifully written."         -Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change Your Life

Getting Lucky: New and Selected Stories, 1982-2012

The Alpha Strategies: Understanding Strategy, Risk and Values in Any Organization

The Alpha Strategies is a framework of eight strategies common to all for-profit, not-for-profit, and public sector organizations, regardless of their size. The eight strategies are business definition, financial management, growth, marketing, organization management, research &amp; development / technology, risk, and service delivery / manufacturing / production. For not-for-profits and public sector organizations, the business definition strategy is known as the mandate while marketing is typically called communications. The service delivery strategy is also known as production or as manufacturing, depending on the nature of an organization’s business. The framework is dynamic in that there is a configuration of The Alpha Strategies unique to every organization. A characteristic of the framework is that one of the eight strategies leads the remaining seven and sets the culture for the organization. Understanding The Alpha Strategies is the key to understanding strategy, risk, and values in any organization. Visit www.thealphastrategies.com for more

THE ALPHA STRATEGIES: UNDERSTANDING STRATEGY, RISK AND VALUES IN ANY ORGANIZATION

Business & Money

KENNEDY, ALAN W.

Management & Leadership

Xlibris

In the Company of Angels is the powerful story of two damaged souls trying to find their way from darkness toward light.
Imprisoned and tortured for months by Pinochet's henchmen for teaching political poetry to his students, Bernardo Greene is visited by two angels, who promise him that he will survive to experience beauty and love once again. Months later, at the Torture Rehabilitation Center in Copenhagen, the Chilean exile befriends Michela Ibsen, herself a survivor of domestic abuse. In the long nights of summer, the two of them struggle to heal, to forgive those who have left them damaged, and to trust themselves to love.
Dense with wisdom and humanity, possessed of a timeless, fable-like quality, In the Company of Angels is a riveting read and a testament to the resilience and complexity of the human heart. 
The novel marks the first large-scale US publication of a major American author, known internationally but only within literary circles in his homeland.

In the Company of Angels: A Novel (Copenhagen Quartet)

Bloomsbury USA

There seems to be no shortage of business at the Tank, a high-profile firm in Copenhagen. There are meetings to attend, memos to write, colleagues to undermine. But when the Tank's nefarious CEO announces a round of downsizing, everyone becomes exponentially more concerned about ... whatever it is they're doing. Not since Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End has there been such a savvy satire of contemporary work culture, and the distorting effects it can have on our lives.
Following these imperiled company men and women out into the autumn days and nights of Copenhagen, Thomas E. Kennedy traces the ripple effects of the news at the Tank as it impacts spouses, children, and lovers. Top executive Frederick Breathwaite is frantically trying to ensure a stable future for his son, while the boy's greatest fear is that his future might resemble his father's absurd present. Harald Jaeger is estranged from his wife and daughters but pursuing desperate passions for other women (including the Tank's married CFO). And while he's lost in amorous fantasies, he has managed to catch the CEO's eye-as a possible replacement for Breathwaite.
Sharp, funny, but remarkably tender, Falling Sideways is the second book in Kennedy's virtuoso Copenhagen Quartet, and a book that will continue to build his reputation as one of America's most versatile literary novelists.

Falling Sideways: A Novel (Copenhagen Quartet)

United States

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