Joseph Mitchell

• 1953
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• Aug-1992
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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 Mitc...

• Mar-1994
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On the centennial of Joseph Mitchell's birth, here is a new edition of the classic collection containing his most celebrated pieces about New York City. Fifty years after its original publication, The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a funda...

• Jan-1999
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The story of a notorious New York eccentric and the journalist who chronicled his life: “A little masterpiece of observation and storytelling” (Ian McEwan).   Joseph Mitchell was a cornerstone of the New Yorker staff for decades, but his pro...

• Apr-2000
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• Jun-2001
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“Mitchell’s collection of portraits is the exact opposite of the books that choose an important subject, but are hastily written and have nothing much to say. These books, which form the bulk of current writing, always make you feel as if you...

• May-2005
• / Literary
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Originally published in the mid-1940s, 'Old Mr. Flood' is Joseph Mitchell’s story of retired house wrecker Hugh G. Flood, a New Yorker determined to live to the age of 115 on a diet of fresh seafood, harbor air, and good Scotch. Mitchell created an...

• Aug-2010
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They were asleep for 572 years... Shard Mountain is an epic science-fiction fantasy novel set in a distant post-apocalypse future America. Three young men involved in a highway accident are surprised to wake up not in a hospital, but in a dark underg...

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Greg Tripp is a married man. A military man. A happy man. Although his checkered past nips at his heels, Greg is proud of the life he has made for himself and the life he shares with his wife, Ann. After a conversation with a crestfallen co-worker le...