Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key West

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 hav...