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AUTHOR: JOSEPH MITCHELL
Mitchell's reputation rests on four books: McSorley's Wonderful Saloon (1942), Old Mr. Flood (1948), The Bottom of the Harbor (1960) and Joe Gould's Secret (1965). They have been out of print for decades. But Pantheon Books has altered all that. Several years ago, the publishing house went...
He still comes into the office almost every day. New staffers frequently ask about the identity of the reticent 85-year-old with the soft North Carolinian accent. "A cult figure" is the usual answer. Sometimes they are referred to the dedication in a book by humorist Calvin Trillin: "To...
In the first entry a Manhattan bartender recalls some patrons in his native Ireland. "There were Falstaffs among them -- that is, they were just windy old drunks from the back alleys of Ballyragget, but they were Falstaffs to me. And there were Ancient Pistols among them. And there was an...
Long before the invention of the tape recorder, Mitchell managed to catch cadences of speech and pin down quirks of personality. A bearded lady refuses to let the doctors examine her: "When they get their hands on a monsterosity the medical profession don't know when to stop." A man...