{"product_id":"key-west-sketches-writers-at-mile-zero-9781958888070","title":"Key West Sketches: Writers at Mile Zero","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn eclectic collection by writers who have lived, worked, and played in Key West, Florida. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKey West has long been America’s most vibrant writers' colony, tracing its writerly roots to Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Robert Frost, John Hersey, Richard Wilbur, James Merrill, and Elizabeth Bishop. More recently, Thomas McGuane, Robert Stone, Judy Blume, Robert Richardson, Ann Beattie, Philip Caputo, Alison Lurie, and Meg Cabot have added their luster to the island’s literary heritage. This collection includes a treasure trove of more than sixty essays, reminiscences, musings, and poems about Key West. It features the town’s best-known writers: Lurie, Blume, Caputo, Cabot, McGuane, Beattie, Shames, Lee Smith, Frank Deford, Phyllis Rose, Glenn Frankel, Joy Williams, Barbara Ehrenreich, Billy Collins, and on and on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Carey Winfrey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface by William Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISLAND FEVER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVroom, Vroom by Frank Deford \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinding Mañana by Mirta Ojito\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome Home by Meg Cabot \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry Workshop Held in a Former Cigar Factory in Key West by Billy Collins \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStandoff at Sea by Mary Kay Zuravleff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Geographical Cure by Lee Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur First Time by George Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Susurration of Palms by Thomas Swick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucky Ducking by Arlo Haskell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuck, Boogie by Mark Hedden\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOtherwhere by Hal Crowther\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFloating Island by Kathryn Kilgore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSquall by Jeffrey Cardenas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurtle Eggs by Brian Antoni\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Last Resort by Alison Lurie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrinnell Street Rag by Rosalind Brackenbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHomesick by Peyton Evans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVaradero Dreaming by Alejandro F. Pascual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBe Careful What You Wish For by Judy Blume\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo Houses by Joy Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecond Thoughts by Pico Iyer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvisible Island by Arlo Haskell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eServing in Florida by Barbara Ehrenreich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParadise Lost by Philip Caputo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey West Is Ruined by Nancy Klingener\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Beautiful Place by Daniel Menaker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey West by Harvey Shapiro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Forever Cycle by Thomas McGuane\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eABSENT FRIENDS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHemingway’s Key West by Joy Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFarther Out by Paul Hendrickson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Poet’s House by Lynn Kaufelt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere Greatness Lived by Arida Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReady and Willing by Thomas Travisano\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLate Air by Elizabeth Bishop\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregorio Valdes, 1879-1939 by Elizabeth Bishop\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharming Tennessee by Lynn Kaufelt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTennessee in Extremis by Joy Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKilling Me Softly by Thomas McGuane\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEbb and Flow by John Leslie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Good Omen by Joy Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBard of Pleasures by Phyllis Rose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOral History, Interviews by Nancy Klingenerr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Ellen Welters Sanchez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Kermit “Shine” Forbes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot of This World by Alison Lurie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMerrill at the Gym by Bill Yankee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey West Aquarium, The Sawfish by James Merrill \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Poet at Heart by Phyllis Rose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLetter from Key West, For Elizabeth Bishop by John Malcolm Brinnin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatching Screwball Comedies with Harry Mathews by Ann Beattie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDear Harry by Rosalind Brackenbury\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New Tourism by Harry Mathews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalks in the Wild  by Hal Crowther\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey West Cowboy by Glenn Frankel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSunburned Sage by Hal Crowther\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican Dreamer  by Michael Mewshaw\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMisnomer by Elena Castedo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemembering Liz by Joy Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of a Kind by William Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull Moon, Key West by Elizabeth Bishop\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John F Blair Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51864261329239,"sku":"9781958888070","price":38.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781958888070.jpg?v=1759921781","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/key-west-sketches-writers-at-mile-zero-9781958888070","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}