Mile Marker Zero
Title | Mile Marker Zero PDF eBook |
Author | William McKeen |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2011-10-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307592049 |
True stories of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in Key West in the 1970s. For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett, Tom McGuane, and Hunter S. Thompson—there was another moveable feast: Key West, Florida. The small town on the two-by-four-mile island has long been an artistic haven, a wild refuge for people of all persuasions, and the inspirational home for a league of great American writers. Some of the artists went there to be literary he-men. Some went to re-create themselves. Others just went to disappear—and succeeded. No matter what inspired the trip, Key West in the seventies was the right place at the right time, where and when an astonishing collection of artists wove a web of creative inspiration. Mile Marker Zero tells the story of how these writers and artists found their identities in Key West and maintained their friendships over the decades, despite oceans of booze and boatloads of pot, through serial marriages and sexual escapades, in that dangerous paradise. Unlike the “Lost Generation” of Paris in the twenties, we have a generation that invented, reinvented, and found itself at the unending cocktail party at the end—and the beginning—of America’s highway.
Mile Marker Zero
Title | Mile Marker Zero PDF eBook |
Author | William McKeen |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307592006 |
Looks at an interesting era in the history of Key West, which became the creative center of the world for a number of writers, musicians and others in the 70s, including Jimmy Buffett, Hunter S. Thompson and more. By the author of Outlaw Journalist.
A Moveable Feast
Title | A Moveable Feast PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest Hemingway |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2022-08-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Hemingway's Key West
Title | Hemingway's Key West PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart B. McIver |
Publisher | Pineapple Press Inc |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781561642410 |
Hemingway in Key West, both as the writer and as the hard-driving sportsman, as well as his exploits in Bimini and Cuba.
Key West
Title | Key West PDF eBook |
Author | Maureen Ogle |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2006-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813059534 |
"Ogle captures this island city in all its quirky charm. Her story breezes along in typical Key West fashion--full of gossip and humor, with the jolt of a good cup of Cuban coffee."--Lee Irby, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Parrotheads, Hemingway aficionados, and sun worshipers view Key West as a tropical paradise, and scores of writers have set tales of mystery and romance on the island. The city's real story--told by Maureen Ogle in this lively and engaging illustrated account--is as fabulous as fiction. In the early 1800s, the city's pioneer founders battled Indians, pirates, and deadly disease and created wealth beyond their imaginations. In the two centuries since, Key West has nurtured tragedy and triumph and has stood at the crossroads of American history. When Florida joined the Confederacy in 1861, Union troops seized control of strategically located Key West and city residents spent four years living under martial law. In the early 1890s, Key West Cubans helped Jose Marti launch the revolution that eventually ended Spain's control of their homeland. A few years later, the battleship Maine steamed out of Key West harbor on its last, tragic voyage. At the turn of the century, Henry Flagler astounded the entire country by building a technological marvel, an overseas railroad from mainland Florida to Key West, more than 100 miles long. In the 1920s and 1930s, painters, rumrunners, and writers (including Ernest Hemingway and Robert Frost) discovered Key West. During World War II, the federal government and the military war machine permanently altered the island's landscape. In the second half of the 20th century, bohemians, hippies, gays, and jet-setters began writing a new chapter in Key West's social history. All of these personalities and events are wrapped in Ogle's unique and candid history of the island, an account that will fascinate past and present citizens of the Conch Republic, history buffs who like a well-told tale, and the millions of tourists from all over the world who love this colorful island city. Maureen Ogle is retired from the University of South Alabama.
Homegrown in Florida
Title | Homegrown in Florida PDF eBook |
Author | William McKeen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780813042053 |
An anthology of stories by writers who grew up in Florida.
Mile Marker Zero in Key West, Florida
Title | Mile Marker Zero in Key West, Florida PDF eBook |
Author | Unique Journal |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2016-09-18 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781537752808 |
Blank 150 page lined journal for your thoughts, ideas, and inspiration.