Kennedys 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 artists
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 Kennedys 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.
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