Up in the Old Hotel

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<p>'The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous... A masterpiece of observation and storytelling' Ian McEwan</p><p>Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. He captured the waterfront rooming-houses , nickel-a-drink saloons, all-night restaurants, the 'visionaries, obsessives, imposters, fanatics, lost souls, the end-is-near street preachers, old Gypsy Kings and old Gypsy Queens, and out-and-out freak-show freaks.' Mitchell's trademark curiosity, respect and graveyard humour fuel these magical essays.</p><p>Written between 1943 and 1965,<i>Up in the Old Hotel</i>is the complete collection of Joseph Mitchell 's<i>New Yorker</i>journalism and includes<i>McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr Flood, The Bottom of the Harbour</i>and<i>Joe Gould's Secret</i>.</p> <p>'Joseph Mitchell is buried treasure' Salman Rushdie</p>

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<b>Joseph Mitchell</b>was born near Iona, North Carolina, in 1908, and came to New York City in 1929, when he was twenty-one years old. He eventually found a job as an apprentice crime reporter for<i>The World</i>. He also worked as a reporter and features writer at<i>The Herald Tribune</i>and<i>The World-Telegram</i>before landing at<i>The New Yorker</i>in 1938. "Joe Gould's Secret," which appeared on September 26th 1964, was the last piece Mitchell ever published. He went into work at<i>The New Yorker</i>almost every day for the next thirty-one years and six months but submitted no further writing.

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