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Joseph Mitchell was a legendary New Yorker writer and the author of the national bestseller Up in the Old Hotel, in which these two pieces appeared. What Joseph Mitchell wrote about, principally, was New York. In Joe Gould, Mitchell found the perfect subject. And Joe Gould's Secret has become a legendary piece of New York history.

Joe Gould may have been the quintessential Greenwich Village bohemian. In 1916, he left behind patrician roots for a scrappy, hand-to-mouth existence: he wore ragtag clothes, slept in Bowery flophouses, and mooched food, drinks, and...

Ein Besuch auf einer Schildkrötenfarm, die einen Großteil des nordamerikanischen Bedarfs an Schildkrötenfleisch deckt; das Porträt einer seit 1854 bestehenden New Yorker Kneipe; schwindelfreie Indianer im Stahlhochbau; findige Nichtstuer, hochbegabte Kinder, Muschelfischer und bärtige Damen; eine Schilderung der Institution »Beefsteak«, einem Begängnis, bei dem es ums Vertilgen ungeheurer Mengen Fleisch geht; der fundamentalistische Straßenprediger, der das Telefon für seine Zwecke entdeckt hat, oder Captain Charleys Museum für intelligente Menschen: Joseph Mitchells...

Saloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-year-old seafoodetarian who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades. These are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his reportage for The New Yorker and in four books McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor, and Joe Gould's Secret that are still renowned for their precise, respectful observation, their graveyard humor, and their offhand perfection of style.

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Famed New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, as a young newspaper reporter in 1930s New York, interviewed fan dancers, street evangelists, voodoo conjurers, not to mention a lady boxer who also happened to be a countess. Mitchell haunted parts of the city now vanished: the fish market, burlesque houses, tenement neighborhoods, and storefront churches. Whether he wrote about a singing first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers or a nudist who does a reverse striptease, Mitchell brilliantly illuminated the humanity in the oddest New Yorkers.

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