{"product_id":"9798896230953","title":"The Lost Years of Joseph Mitchell","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eSchomburg, Scott\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eNew York Review Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2\/9\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revelatory biography of the legendary \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e journalist Joseph Mitchell that focuses on his infamous three-decade-long writer’s block and sheds light on the private productivity of those years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 1938 to 1964, Joseph Mitchell published unforgettable profiles as a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, portraits of ordinary people in disappearing worlds on the edges of New York City. His stories of Fulton Fish Market, Greenwich Village wanderer Joe Gould, McSorley’s Old Ale House, and a graveyard caretaker on the South Shore of Staten Island earned Mitchell the reputation of a writer’s writer. Then his byline vanished from print. For thirty-one years, the story goes, he went to his office almost every day, worked behind a closed door, and never submitted another piece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a chance encounter with one of Mitchell’s closest friends and a meticulous examination of new and unpublished material, Scott Schomburg discovers another Mitchell, one who would leave his desk to visit an old cemetery or enter a demolition site, where, he said, he worked as hard as he ever did. During this decades-long silence, Mitchell was engaged in a different form of writing: an obsessive collecting and note-taking that he hoped would preserve lives otherwise lost to time. It was a restless pursuit of the eternal in the everyday of a dying world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing in Mitchell’s footsteps from his childhood in the swamps of North Carolina to his last years in a rapidly changing New York, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Years of Joseph Mitchell\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelation of new insight about a legendary writer and his work. Schomburg’s lucid and poignant narrative captures Mitchell’s unique blend of the apocalyptic and elegiac. It’s the kind of story Mitchell himself might have written.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48585087222015,"sku":"9798896230953","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9798896230953_s600x595.jpg?v=1781542599","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9798896230953","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}