As a young newspaper reporter in 1930s New York, Joseph Mitchell interviewed fan dancers, street evangelists, voodoo conjurers, not to mention a lady boxer who also happened to be a countess. Mitchell haunted parts of the city now vanished: the fish market, burlesque houses, tenement neighborhoods, and storefront churches. Whether he wrote about a singing first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers or a nudist who does a reverse striptease, Mitchell brilliantly illuminated the humanity in the oddest New Yorkers.
These pieces, written primarily for The World-Telegram and The Herald Tribune, highlight his abundant gifts of empathy and observation, and give us the full-bodied picture of the famed New Yorker writer Mitchell would become.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
![Joseph Mitchell, Francis Godolphin Waldron - Prodigal. a Dramatic Piece [in Two Acts and in Verse; Altered from the Fatal Extravagance of J. Mitchell, or Rather A. Hill? by F. G. Waldron]., Häftad](https://image.bokus.com/images2/9781241176969_766)
