Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (529 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375508902 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has served as president of American Journalism Review and as dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. . He and his wife, Debra, have four grown daughters. Thomas Kunkel is the president of St. He is the author or editor of five previous books, including Genius in Disguise, Enormous Prayers, and Letters from the Editor. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin
N. B. Kennedy said An affectionate look at a literary lion. Famed New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell gets the full treatment in this absorbing biography by journalist and author Thomas Kunkel. The book opens with an aging and gloomy Mitchell entering one of his favorite haunts, McSorley's, the landmark Manhattan saloon that he had once famously written about. From there, Mr. Kunkel opens the book out to both the writer's personal and professional life.Of course, anything written about The New Yorker magazine from the . Just ask me! said A must-read for every New Yorker reader, particularly fans of Joseph Mitchell's profiles. As a life-long New Yorker and The New Yorker reader--almost totally true, since I was attempting to decipher the cartoons before I could read the captions--I have enjoyed meeting the "characters" profiled by Joseph Mitchell, from a New York era before "weirdos" were expected to undergo correction via rehab, psychotropic medication or involuntary hospitalization.It was therefore a surprise that, even after the highly successful publication of the "Up in the O. "Accomplished Writers ." according to SundayAtDusk. In Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker, author Thomas Kunkel does a skillful job of going back and forth between Joseph Mitchell's professional life and his personal life, his times in New York and his times in North Carolina, his feelings of contentment and his feelings of depression. Due to an inability to grasp math, which may have been a bona fide case of dyscalculia, young Joseph Mitchell could not join the family cotton farming business,
With a colorful cast of characters that includes Harold Ross, A. For thirty years, Mitchell showed up for work at The New Yorker, but he produced nothing. He could barely recognize it. Liebling, Tina Brown, James Thurber, and William Shawn, Man in Profile goes a long way to solving that mystery—and bringing this lion of American journalism out of the shadows that once threatened to swallow him. WINNER OF THE SPERBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary New Yorker profile writer—author of Joe Gould’s Secret and Up in the Old Hotel—and unravels the mystery behind one of literary history’s greatest disappearing acts.Born and raised in North Carolina, Joseph Mitchell was Southern to the core. Did he have something new and exciting in store? Was he working on a major project? Or was he bedeviled by
Reading it is like drinking with the legends of The New Yorker and stalking the night city with the characters Mitchell immortalized: oystermen and graveyard workers, scoundrels and dreamers.”—Michael Capuzzo, author of Close to Shore and The Murder Room“With great diligence and empathy, Thomas Kunkel gives us Joseph Mitchell in full: the sources of his unbounded curiosity and ease in the natural world, his profound gifts as an observer and listener, his spiritual restlessness, his enormous heart, his incomparable voice. Thomas Kunkel valiantly captures Mitchell’s own biography.”—The New Republic “A portrait of a genteel, jovial but deeply conflicted soul Mitchell remains as quirky and compellin