![]() ![]() ![]() In betwixt, I can throw in more private matters, such as my two physical beatings in bars ('Spotlight' indeed), and other things, but the main tale will be. I'll use my public appearances on TV and lectures as rungs in the ladder of the narrative. He begins, "Here's what I'll do with SPOTLIGHT. Petersburg, the typed one-page letter to New York literary agent Sterling Lord outlines Kerouac's plans for his never-completed final book, the working title of which was Spotlight. 27, 1968, a time when he was living in St. However, a letter by Kerouac that recently came up for auction reveals that he planned to do so. But he never, as far as I know, wrote about Florida in his fiction. Petersburg and Orlando, having lived for a time in both cities in the 1960s. Jack Kerouac is one of the most famous literary figures associated with St. Since it's a selection, I have also chosen to grandfather in one writer who doesn't meet both criteria. ![]() Here are my criteria for this selection of novelists and short story writers: They have lived in the state at some point and have used Florida as a setting for their fiction. Florida can claim plenty of great nonfiction writers, poets and playwrights as well, of course, but I was aiming for a manageable number. ![]() To compile this map of literary Florida, I first chose to limit it to fiction writers, living and dead. ![]()
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