The master of a journalistic style long vanished
- urbane lucid courteous...A masterpiece of observation & storytelling". (Ian Mc Ewan). Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city & the people who lived there are his subject. He captured the waterfront rooming-houses nickel-a-drink saloons all-night restaurants the "visionaries obsessives imposters fanatics lost souls the end-is-near street preachers old Gypsy Kings & old Gypsy Queens & out-&-out freak-show freaks". Mitchells trademark curiosity respect & graveyard humour fuel these magical essays. Written between 1943 & 1965 " Up in the Old Hotel" is the complete collection of Joseph Mitchells " New Yorker" journalism &
Includes:: " Mc Sorleys Wonderful Saloon" " Old Mr Flood" " The Bottom of the Harbour" & " Joe Goulds Secret". " Joseph Mitchell is buried treasure". (Salman Rushdie)."