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My Ears Are Bent : Vintage - Joseph Mitchell

My Ears Are Bent

By: Joseph Mitchell

Paperback | 8 July 2008

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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.
Industry Reviews
"My Ears Are Bent sparkles with laughter and exuberance." --Los Angeles Times "This reporter, prose stylist and observer of life remains that vanished world's Scheherezade." --The Washington Post

"These stories, the tales of the people he has talked to in the course of his wanderings about New York, are done with a sharp eye for the revealing detail, and in a prose that is casual, but tough." --Stanley Walker, The Herald Tribune

"Delicacies from the first nine years of Mitchell's career." --Entertainment Weekly

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