Key West Sketches: Writers at Mile Zero

An eclectic assortment by writers who’ve lived, worked, and played in Key West, Florida.

Key West has long been The us’s so much colourful 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 assortment features a treasure trove of more than sixty essays, recollections, musings, and poems about Key West. It options the city’s best possible-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.