Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key West

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True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in The usa’s southernmost city
 
For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there used to be Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there used to be 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 used to be some other 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. One of the artists went there to be literary he-men. Some went to re-create themselves. Others just went to disappear—and succeeded. It doesn’t matter what inspired the go back and forth, Key West in the seventies used to be the right place at the right time, where and when an astonishing selection of artists wove a internet 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, regardless of 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, now we have a generation that invented, reinvented, and found itself at the unending cocktail party at the end—and the beginning—of The usa’s highway.

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