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Key West Sketches

Writers at Mile Zero

William Wright author Carey Winfrey editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John F Blair Publisher

Published:2nd Nov '23

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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An eclectic collection by writers who have lived, worked, and played in Key West, Florida. 

Key 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

ISBN: 9781958888056

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

350 pages