num_pages: 716
description: 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.These masterpieces (along with several previously uncollected stories) are available in one volume, which presents an indelible collective portrait of an unsuspected New York and its odder citizens—as depicted by one of the great writers of this or any other time.
language: English
title: Up in the Old Hotel
titlecomplete: Up in the Old Hotel
genres: New York, History, Short Stories, The United States Of America, Biography, Literature, Journalism, Essays, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3996
places: The Bowery, New York City, New York, Manhattan, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: American Arts & Letters
publisher: Vintage