Man in profile
Subtitle: Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker
By: Thomas Kunkel
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780375508905
Subjects: New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925); American Authors; Biography; Journalists
Description: "Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker was one of the greatest nonfiction writers in American letters. His long-form profiles of the everyday people and places at the margins of the city he loved--high-rise construction workers, Staten Island oystermen, Bowery bums--pioneered a new kind of reportage. In the Thirties, Forties, Fifties, and early Sixties he wrote about some of the most quirky and memorable characters ever captured on the page, culminating in 1964 with his extraordinary story "Joe Gould's Secret." And then . . . nothing. For the next thirty years Mitchell came to the office and seemed to be busy with writing projects, but he never published another word. In time he would become less known for his classic stories and elegant writing than for the longest writer's block this side of J.D. Salinger. Fifty years after his last story appeared, and almost two decades after his death, Mitchell still has legions of fans, and his story--especially the mystery of his thirty-year writer's block--continues to fascinate"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The wonderful saloon; title: The center of gravity; title: Chapel Hill; title: District man; title: Assignment: New York; title: A reporter at large; title: There are no little people; title: Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Flood; title: The bottom of the harbor; title: Mr. Hunter; title: A river in a dream; title: Joe Gould revisited; title: Into the past; title: Into the wilderness; title: A ghost in plain view; title: Up in the old hotel; title: Homecoming.