Key West’s Heritage House Museum created the Robert Frost Poetry Festival and Contest in 1994, based on Frost’s visits to the cottage on its premises, now named after him. In 2010 the administration of the Robert Frost International Poetry and Haiku Contest event was turned over to The Studios of Key West. For the first time, the annual winners and selected entries have been collected into one volume, available both as an ebook and paperback edition. Here are more than 150 wonderful poems ...

• This collection of heretofore all but unknown science fiction short stories by masters of the genre is richly illustrated to enrich the readers experience.Forget about being lost in space. Many of the sci-fi short stories in this never-before-published anthology have been lost in file cabinets, desk drawers, and attics. Here are 16 new and/or all-but-unknown futuristic tales by such masterful science fiction writers as Ray Bradbury, John W. Campbell, Philip K. Dick, C.J. Daniels,...

Key West serves as backdrop for some of the world's best mystery stories. Here is the third collection of murder and mayhem in Paradise, a keep-you-up-at-night anthology featuring ten leading writers who explore the dark side of the Southernmost point in the continental US: John Hemingway, Roberta Islieb (writing as Lucy Burdette), Sandra Balzo, Shirrel Rhoades, Robert Coburn, Jonathan Wood, Barthélemy Banks, Bill Craig, Mike Dennis, and Michael Haskins. "An outstanding collection of myste...

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Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is considered to be the first gonzo journalist. But, fact is, there were writers doing first-person stories long before his writing got tagged as “gonzo” in 1970. Shirrel Rhoades, for instance.Gonzo journalism is a style of writing in which the writer is part of the story. According to the definition, the personality of the writer is as important as the event being chronicled. That certainly describes Hunter Thompson’s writing. But back in the mid-‘60s when R...

Ever wonder what was behind that red door at New York’s Church of the Holy Communion? Want to follow in Frank Sinatra’s carousing footsteps? Have a hankering for a fried grasshopper? Which celebrities had deli sandwiches named after them? Were there ever Russians in the Russian Tea Room? Would you be willing to dine in the dark? How about in the nude? Where’s the perfect bar for a bender? Did tough guy Mickey Spillane own a bar? Where do you take an 8-year-old girl for a tea party? Ever be...

Key West serves as backdrop for some of the world's best mystery stories. Here is the second collection of murder and mayhem in Paradise, a can't-put-it-down anthology featuring eleven leading Key West mystery writers: Heather Graham; Michael Haskins; Jonathan Woods; Lucy Burdette; Hal Howland; Robert Coburn; Shirrel Rhoades; Ben Harrison; William R. Burkett, Jr.; Barthélemy Banks; and Bill Craig. "One-stop shopping for murder-on-the-beach reading," says Marcy Birdweather of Marcy's Musing...

Key West serves as backdrop for some of the world’s best mystery stories. Here is the third collection of murder and mayhem in Paradise, a keep-you-up-at-night anthology featuring ten leading writers who explore the dark side of the Southernmost point in the continental US: John Hemingway, Roberta Islieb (writing as Lucy Burdette), Sandra Balzo, Shirrel Rhoades, Robert Coburn, Jonathan Wood, Barthélemy Banks, Bill Craig, Mike Dennis, and Michael Haskins. “An outstanding collection of myste...

Ever wonder who’s really buried in Grant’s Tomb? Want to go inside an underground vault holding 6,190 tons of gold? See the abandoned subway station with chandeliers and stained glass skylight beneath City Hall? How about peeking inside an armored Money Train? Hunt for giant albino alligators in the City sewers? View sections of the Berlin Wall right here in Manhattan? Track down original bondage photos of ‘50s pinup girl Bettie Page? Explore the secret floors in the Empire State Building?...

More than 175 reviews of the most notable films of 2011. Plot synopses, backgrounds, interviews, quotes, and insightful appraisals by the film critic for the Cooke Communications newspaper chain. “One of my favorite entertainment writers…” says book reviewer Rosemary Mason.

The island of Key West serves as backdrop for some of the world’s best mystery stories. Here is the fifth collection of murder and mayhem in Paradise, a hard-hitting anthology that features ten leading writers who explore the dark side of the Southernmost city in the continental US: Jack Mazur, Shirrel Rhoades, Rick Ollerman, Albert L. Kelley, Wayne “Skip” Kadar (writing as Justin Maxwell), Barthélemy Banks, R. K. Simpson, Robert Coburn, John Guerra, and Randy Becker.

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