My Ears Are Bent

By - Mitchell, Joseph

Floor - Floor 4

Published - Vintage Books, New York, 2001

ISBN 10 - 0375726306

ISBN 13 - 9780375726309

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Manners and customs

Shelf No - 6

Call Number - 974.7109 MIT

Physical Description - xiii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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Famed New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, as a young newspaper reporter in 1930s New York, 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.

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