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    <body><![CDATA[A disclaimer: I only read about 2/3rd's of this book.  It's around 750 pages, but some of the stories were either too antiquated to read or were of a topic too sensitive for me to read (ex. the raising of terrapins for future consumption - couldn't handle that.  Although, it did remind me of the mag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76024604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book about a New York that no longer exists.  It's fun reading:  little journalistic snippets of fishermen and barflies and seemingly the kinds of things you'd overhear at shadowy little coffee-stained diner tables.  Here's a writer that loves New York, and he was in turn, I'm sure, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67634533">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I re-read this book every couple of years. It's both a way to time travel to the New York of the earlier twentieth city and an immersion in that compelling yet somehow effortless prose that drives me to pick up the New Yorker every time I see it. I want to visit the New York Mitchell describes, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19182449">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm re-reading this now.  Each essay reveals something new and surprising about early 20th century New York City.  My favorites are the Old Mr. Flood essays, where you learn a lot about Fulton Fish Market and the characters that wander there.  I never expected to be so engrossed in a essays about fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76579914">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An unassuming, interesting collection of nonfiction pieces. Mitchell, a journalist and former staffer at the New Yorker who died in 1996, has been called a writer's writer; he wrote in simple, declarative style and with deep empathy for his subjects. Many of his stories were written in the '20s and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62487358">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is great. Joseph Mitchell writes a number of profiles of street people (true stories) that lived in New York in the late 30's and 40's. What a great slice of American history from a unique perspective. I originally borrowed this book but had to buy it because I knew I would return to it ti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39588782">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fabulous collection of short stories -- essays really --  about New York from the quintessential New Yorker writer -- Joe Mitchell. My favorite has to be Joe Gould, a true story about Harvard educated, Boston Braham and NYC homeless writer Joseph Gould who spent a lifetime writing &quot;The Oral His...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80958175">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been reading this book for about 16 years since I bought it at Lakeforest mall from the B. Dalton bookstore in paperback. I am now one story (&quot;The Rivermen&quot;) away from finishing it. I read it in order mostly, but at one point I skipped ahead to read Joe Gould's Secret. I think this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61267698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow! This is vintage New Yorker gold. Want to smell what your grandmother smelled when she walked up Broadway or thru the Bowery in 1938? You can. Mitchell makes it happen. I have loved every sentence Mitchell has written.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of the greats, his essay about rats in new york city is haunting and full of realness that would shake any bourgeois out of his narcissism.....gadfly journalism and graveyard humor at its best.....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best books ever written. I'm not kidding. People who like good writing should just drop everything and go read this, if they haven't already. Mitchell was cool before cool was invented.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have not quite finished this book but I took a break, came back, and now have read enough of it to feel I can write a review (it's four books in one, it's a collection of profiles, I'm allowed).<br/><br/>This book is a brilliant collection of investigations into the lives of fascinating, and oft...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6713763">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm in the middle of this... missing New York. The writing is amazing. Anyone who is in the middle of a torrid affair with New York, or remembering one...read this.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember where I heard of this book; it was in an issue of the New Yorker with an article remembering Joseph Mitchell's mysterious drop-off in production at the magazine.  Apparently, after twenty or thirty years of excellent work, he simply stopped writing.  He came to work at the magazine every ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9904877">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this a long time ago, was just thinking about it. Old fashioned excellent writing about an old fashioned  and amazing NYC]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you haven't read Joseph Mitchell, you need to.  He's a writer's writer.  It reads like fiction but it's not.<br/><br/>Matt]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read it all-- I'm loathe to finish it altogether. Works well in bits and pieces. Beautiful, simple language. ]]></body>
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