| My Ears Are Bent Contributor(s): Mitchell, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375726306 ISBN-13: 9780375726309 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 974.710 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.75 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - New York - Chronological Period - 1930's - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |