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Andrea Barrett: 2009: <i>Ship Fever</i>
In this recording from the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar, Andrea Barrett explains how she began to write about science and history in the short story form after the disappointment of writing four unsuccessful novels. "With nothing to lose," Barrett recounts, "I began to write about the thing that I actually loved the most, but had never dared to write fiction about before." She follows this account with an excerpt from "Ship Fever," the title novella of her National Book Award-winning first collection of short stories. In it, Lockland Grant, a bright young doctor who has come to the island of Gros Île in 1847 to treat the population of newly landed Irish immigrants, has fallen victim to the typhus epidemic raging through the community.
One more look at the 27th KWLS
The San Carlos Institute panorama. Photo by Curt Richter. As we unpack the boxes, the discs, the jump drives, and the emails from our 27th Key West Literary Seminar– Historical Fiction and the Search for Truth– we've uncovered this...
Friday Night Writers' Party
For the writers who join us each January, one of the highlights is the Friday night writers' party. Seward and Joyce Johnson hosted this one at their southernmost home. Photos by Curt Richter Thomas Mallon and Phyllis Rose Calvin Baker...
Writers Recommend
With more than 40 writers scheduled to speak during our Seminar this January, it can be difficult for a reader to know where to start. Sure, there are the classics and prize-winners, like William Kennedy's Ironweed and David Levering...
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