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Carey Winfrey, Carey Winfrey
Key West Sketches - Writers At Mile Zero
English · Hardback
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Description
"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 on"--Publisher's website.
List of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword by Carey Winfrey Preface by William Wright ISLAND FEVER Vroom, Vroom by Frank Deford Finding Mañana by Mirta Ojito Welcome Home by Meg Cabot Poetry Workshop Held in a Former Cigar Factory in Key West by Billy Collins Standoff at Sea by Mary Kay Zuravleff The Geographical Cure by Lee Smith Our First Time by George Cooper A Susurration of Palms by Thomas Swick Lucky Ducking by Arlo Haskell Duck, Boogie by Mark Hedden Otherwhere by Hal Crowther Floating Island by Kathryn Kilgore Squall by Jeffrey Cardenas Turtle Eggs by Brian Antoni The Last Resort by Alison Lurie Grinnell Street Rag by Rosalind Brackenbury Homesick by Peyton Evans Varadero Dreaming by Alejandro F. Pascual Be Careful What You Wish For by Judy Blume Two Houses by Joy Williams Second Thoughts by Pico Iyer Invisible Island by Arlo Haskell Serving in Florida by Barbara Ehrenreich Paradise Lost by Philip Caputo Key West Is Ruined by Nancy Klingener This Beautiful Place by Daniel Menaker Key West by Harvey Shapiro The Forever Cycle by Thomas McGuane ABSENT FRIENDS Hemingway’s Key West by Joy Williams Farther Out by Paul Hendrickson A Poet’s House by Lynn Kaufelt Where Greatness Lived by Arida Wright Ready and Willing by Thomas Travisano Late Air by Elizabeth Bishop Gregorio Valdes, 1879-1939 by Elizabeth Bishop Charming Tennessee by Lynn Kaufelt Tennessee in Extremis by Joy Williams Killing Me Softly by Thomas McGuane Ebb and Flow by John Leslie A Good Omen by Joy Williams Bard of Pleasures by Phyllis Rose Oral History, Interviews by Nancy Klingenerr Ellen Welters Sanchez Kermit “Shine” Forbes Not of This World by Alison Lurie Merrill at the Gym by Bill Yankee Key West Aquarium, The Sawfish by James Merrill A Poet at Heart by Phyllis Rose Letter from Key West, For Elizabeth Bishop by John Malcolm Brinnin Watching Screwball Comedies with Harry Mathews by Ann Beattie Dear Harry by Rosalind Brackenbury The New Tourism by Harry Mathews Walks in the Wild by Hal Crowther Key West Cowboy by Glenn Frankel Sunburned Sage by Hal Crowther American Dreamer by Michael Mewshaw Misnomer by Elena Castedo Remembering Liz by Joy Williams One of a Kind by William Wright Full Moon, Key West by Elizabeth Bishop
About the author
Carey Winfrey is a veteran American journalist who has worked in a number of media outlets through his career including Time, the New York Times, WNET, and CBS Cable, among others. He was the founding editor of Memories magazine and the former editor-in-chief of Cuisine, American Health, and Smithsonian magazines. He is a part-time resident of Key West.
Summary
An eclectic collection by writers who have lived, worked, and played in Key West, Florida. Product details
Authors
Carey Winfrey
Assisted by
Carey Winfrey (Editor), William Wright (Foreword), William Wright (Foreword)
Publisher
Blair John F Publications
Languages
English
Product format
Hardback
Released
19.09.2023
EAN
9781958888070
ISBN
978-1-958888-07-0
No. of pages
270
Subjects
Fiction
> Narrative literature
Travel
> Map accessories, miscellaneous
FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
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