Alone

by Ned Vizzini

There are days I only see darkness. I'm a man now. I have to make my own happiness, but all I can do is lie in my bed, radio turned on, I need to hear background noise to stop the noise in my head and I think. I write happy stories about happy people. They are happy. I am not.

31 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 20, 2013

About the author

Vizzini grew up primarily in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, graduating in 1999. While still a teenager, he began to write articles for the New York Press, an alternative newspaper.

After he wrote an essay that got published by the New York Times Magazine, several of his essays about his young adult life ended up being combined into his first book, Teen Angst? Naaah.... Vizzini attended Hunter College, also located in Manhattan. Ned Vizzini lived in New York City. Vizzini's characters and situations are said be based upon his time spent at Stuyvesant.