Harmony Korine

This clothbound volume is Harmony Korine (born 1973) and Juergen Teller’s (born 1964) visual memoir of a road trip they took ten years ago with William Eggleston (born 1939) and his son, Winston, from Memphis to Mississippi. Featuring photos and short introductions by Korine and Teller, this record of their spontaneous, intimate journey captures their love for each other through the shared experience of the American road, and combines images of gas stations, abandoned trucks, evangelical households, banal landscapes and hotel rooms with candid portraits. Certain photos cleverly re-visit Eggleston’s own famous motifs—strings of colored electric lights, road signs, people in cars—and yet the star of the show is without doubt Eggleston himself, always impeccably groomed, whether seated at the kitchen table, holding the hand of cousin Maude Schuyler Clay, or playing the grand piano.

Key Zest arises from Harmony Korine’s 2019 film The Beach Bum, which follows the misadventures of a poet named Moondog (Matthew McConaughey), a “rebellious burnout who only knows how to live life by his own rules.” Set in Key West, Florida, and also starring Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Zac Efron, Jimmy Buffett, Martin Lawrence and Jonah Hill, the movie tracks Moondog’s comical mishaps and assignations, culminating in his unlikely fame after the publication of his memoirs, which are universally lauded and win him a Pulitzer Prize.

Key Zest is a collection of Moondog’s poems. Hilarious, preposterous and ribald, it includes such gems as “Alright, sunrise. / Let’s get this party started.” and “We can do whatever we want or nothing at all. / Eh, civilization.” Harmony Korine writes, “Moondog is the greatest poet in the history of Key West. I read a few of these pages and loved every minute of it.”