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Feeding the Muse: Wallace Stevens
At home in Hartford, Wallace Stevens was a strict New England businessman, ungiven to personal excess or displays of passion. In Key West, on the other hand, Stevens permitted himself the eccentricities he normally relegated to the page. He mailed unusual tropical fruits home to his wife, Elsie, and wrote of drinking Scotch in his pajamas in the moonlight beneath the palm trees. He was fond of green coconut ice cream, mangoes, and cocktails. The latter led to drunken arguments over dinner with Robert Frost, and an ill-planned assault on Ernest Hemingway, a notoriously talented fighter who painfully contradicted Stevens's belief that poetry is a destructive force.
Feeding the Muse: Ernest Hemingway
Excitement is building in Key West for THE HUNGRY MUSE, our 29th annual Seminar, coming up January 6 - 16, 2011. As we wait for today's top food writers to arrive, we've been poring through the letters of the great writers of Key West's past to learn what they ate in the island city. From this research, we've created historically plausible menus consisting entirely of things definitely eaten and drunk in Key West. Up first: Ernest Hemingway.
<i>Subtle Big Things:</i> <br>talking with Frank Bruni
In this interview with Arlo Haskell, Born Round author Frank Bruni reflects on his time as restaurant critic at The New York Times, shares his cure for the common hangover, and talks about why food has such a hold on today's popular culture.
2011 Session Assignments Announced
The table is set for our twin bill 2011 Key West Literary Seminar: THE HUNGRY MUSE: An Exploration of Food in Literature. Panelists have been apportioned to one of two (or in some cases, both) sessions. Here's how the...
THE HUNGRY MUSE: Cast of Characters
Construction of new author pages is now complete for all 22 confirmed speakers for the upcoming 2011 Key West Literary Seminar: "The Hungry Muse: an exploration of food in literature." The pages include biographical information, selected bibliographies, and links...
Announcing KWLS 2011: The Hungry Muse
The 2011 Key West Literary Seminar will bring together dozens of today's most compelling, thought-provoking, and funniest writers– memoirists, novelists, poets, historians, journalists, and all manner of lettered gastronome, gourmand, and epicure– to explore food and its place in contemporary literature.
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