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Joseph Mitchell was born near Iona, North Carolina, in 1908, and came to New York City in 1929, when he was twenty-one years old. He eventually found a job as an apprentice crime reporter for The World. He also worked as a reporter and features writer at The Herald Tribune and The World-Telegram before landing at The New Yorker in 1938. ""Joe Gould's Secret,"" which appeared on September 26th 1964, was the last piece Mitchell ever published. He went into work at The New Yorker almost every day for the next thirty-one years and six months but submitted no further writing.
The articles Mitchell wrote for The New Yorker in the 1940s and 1950s established him as the finest staff writer in the history of the magazine and one of the greatest journalists America has produced. The six stories in this collection, all concerned with the lives of the people who worked and lived on the New York waterfront, break all the accepted rules of how journalists should write. The impeccable sentences unwind themselves at a leisurely pace and the significance of the story Mitchell wants to tell is couched in subtle symbolism. The best story in this book, Mr Hunter's Grave , needs only the slightest tweak and bluff to turn it into a short story of the highest order. Mitchell shines a torchlight into places we rarely dare to look-the bottom of the harbour; the darkest recesses of the soul. (Kirkus UK)
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