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Jan 26, 2016 · Joe Gould's Secret. The story of a notorious New York eccentric and the journalist who chronicled his life: “A little masterpiece of observation and storytelling” (Ian McEwan). Joseph Mitchell was a cornerstone of the New Yorker staff for decades, but his prolific career was shattered by an extraordinary case of writer’s block.
Dec 7, 1999 · And Joe Gould's Secret has become a legendary piece of New York history. Joe Gould may have been the quintessential Greenwich Village bohemian. In 1916, he left behind patrician roots for a scrappy, hand-to-mouth existence: he wore ragtag clothes, slept in Bowery flophouses, and mooched food, drinks, and money off of friends and strangers.
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Mar 25, 2018 · I can’t help but feel that Joe Gould’s Secret, Joseph Mitchell’s 1965 book of New Yorker profiles about the eponymous writer, will appeal to all creatives. It’s a vivid portrait of a man whose writing was the “only thing that matters a damn to [him],” a man who would float in and out of smoky bars until four in the morning, writing ...
Originally published in: The New Yorker, Dec. 12th 1942. -- Joe Gould's secret. Originally published in: The New Yorker, Sept. 19th and 26th 1964 Access-restricted-item
Jan 24, 2000 · An observant evocation of New York's literary and bohemian world of more than a half-century ago, "Joe Gould's Secret" remains sympathetically engaging even as it sporadically stumbles on its ...
Joe Gould's Secret by Joseph Mitchell - Books on Google Play. Joseph Mitchell (1908–1996) left North Carolina for New York the day after the 1929 stock market crash. After eight years as a reporter and feature writer at various newspapers, he joined the staff of the New Yorker, where he remained until his death at the age of eighty-seven. His ...
Synopsis. Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 ...
