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The Moveable Feast of Key West
Crown
October 2011
On Sale: October 4, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 0307592006
EAN: 9780307592002
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads,
guitar pickers and drug merchants in America’s southernmost
city
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: KeyWest, 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.
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