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Posts tagged Joseph Mitchell

Joseph Mitchell, "The Old House at Home"

Joseph Mitchell’s classic piece of literary journalism, published in 1940, paints a vivid portrait of a neighborhood saloon in New York’s Lower East Side.

mitchell-old-house-at-homAustin WoernerMarch 12, 2020Joseph Mitchell, Writing about places, Creative Nonfiction, Literary journalism, WOC190

Joseph Mitchell, "Professor Sea Gull"

Joseph Mitchell’s famous 1942 profile of Joe Gould, the Greenwich Village eccentric who claimed to be writing a voluminous “Oral History of Our Time.”

mitchell-professor-sea-guAustin WoernerSeptember 28, 2019Annotated edition, Joseph Mitchell, Creative Nonfiction, Literary journalism, Character profiles

Joseph Mitchell, “Mazie"

Joseph Mitchell’s classic profile of a famous denizen of the 1930s Bowery.

joseph-mitchell-mazie, character profilesAustin WoernerJuly 28, 2019Joseph Mitchell, WOC190