Kennedy's first novel offers a finely drawn portrait of a middle-aged man observing the inexorable, downward spiral of his life. At 39, Jack Sugrue has a quietly decaying house in Queens, N.Y., a beautiful sociologist wife he can neither talk to nor ...
Chronological listings, and author and title indexes for anthologies and collections of short stories put out by seven major US awards, among them, the Pushcart Prize, the American Fiction Award, Drue Heinz, and the Iowa School of Letters. No overall...
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 visite...
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 ...
Meet the characters running round here, eleven of them, each at his busting point: Jack Lynch, Bill Gurb, Jazz Jastovic, Charlie Feuk, Mickey Jung, Thomas Brighton, Fin Finley. With irony and humor, their minds and lives are laid bare for us to follo...
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, in Copenhag...
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 p...
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 expon...
"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...
Kerrigan is writing a guide book to his adopted city of Copenhagen. Specifically, a guide to the city's drinking establishments-of which there are more than 1,500. Thus, it is a project potentially without end, and one with a certain amount of drunke...
Infidelity anyone? Vicariously enjoy the unfaithfulness of twenty-four writers in this anthology, Runnin’ Around, subtitled The Serving House Book of Infidelity. The cover is a black- and-white Mark Hillringhouse photograph of an appropriately seed...
"Beneath the Neon Egg" is a novel of jazz, violence, sex, death, love, and the underbelly of life, set in the low light of a Copenhagen winter. It is the story of Patrick Bluett, a forty-three-year-old Irish-American in Denmark, divorced and navigati...
A novel about women, jazz and becoming a writer...That night I told my father I needed to speak to him. I told him that the only thing I wanted to do in the world was to write, that school was driving me crazy, that I had to get away. To get away and...
A novel about women, jazz and becoming a writer...That night I told my father I needed to speak to him. I told him that the only thing I wanted to do in the world was to write, that school was driving me crazy, that I had to get away. To get away and...