PRAISE FOR GETTING LUCKY
“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
“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
“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.”
— DUFF BRENNA
“[Kennedy] has an ear and eye for modern life…and most of all he knows Copenhagen…a civilized place with jazz bars and cafés, parks and lakes, areas of civic loveliness. Most of all it is Kennedy’s city, and…a place I want to keep visiting.”
— Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“…wide-ranging and assured…”
— The New Yorker
“…shimmering with emotional honesty…”
— New York Times
