Old Mr. Flood
"Mitchell is a pioneer of the long quote in journalism and a master of making it sing." --Village Voice, April 29, 2005"Nuanced, insightful, and painstakingly lifelike…a memorable tale of a vanished urban landscape as significant today [as] 60 years ago." --Time Out Chicago, April 28, 2005"One of the century’s best reporters...An amazing portrait of a New York long since paved over." --Playboy, May 2005"Readers won’t quickly forget Flood or his friends." --Pages Magazine, May/June 2005"[Flood] conveys in his very being the aura of old New York…Mr. Flood is unforgettable." --Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2005