Up in the Old Hotel
Joseph Mitchell's celebrated New Yorker profiles bring to life the characters, neighborhoods, and fading corners of mid-century New York.
About This Book
Up in the Old Hotel gathers Joseph Mitchell's classic profiles and stories originally published in The New Yorker.
The pieces document the people, places, and rhythms of mid-twentieth-century New York with precision and empathy.
Mitchell's subjects range from waterfront saloons and market vendors to eccentrics and forgotten neighborhoods.
The writing preserves vanishing corners of the city through closely observed, understated portraits.
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