Thomas E. Kennedy

Thomas E. Kennedy’s thirty books include the Copenhagen Quartet, being published by Bloomsbury worldwide: In the Company of Angels (2010), Falling Sideways (2011), and two more forthcoming volumes. This year New American Press will issue his Getting Lucky: Twenty New and Selected Stories, 1982–2012. His essays can be found in current or forthcoming issues of the Southern Review, the Boston Review, Epoch, and the South Carolina Review.

Nonfiction – Issue 13

The Night Side

My real life—or what I think of as my real life—began in fiction. It was late March 1959. Earlier that month, I had turned fifteen, an occasion I had celebrated by nearly killing myself with a bottle of whiskey.…