Joseph Mitchell – Up in the Old Hotel

"On and off over the 20-odd years that I have been trying to write journalism, I have carried around in my bag Joseph Mitchell's book, Up in the Old Hotel. Mitchell grew up in rural North Carolina at the beginning of the last century, came to New York as a young man to work as a crime correspondent in Harlem, and subsequently became known at the New Yorker magazine as the pioneer of a particular kind of reporting that owed something to Mark Twain: extended portraits of people and places at the margins of the city, told with all the patience of a novelist, and the precision of a newspaperman. Up in the Old Hotel collects all of the stories Mitchell wrote in this manner, for The New Yorker, from between 1943 and 1964. ..."

Guardian – Joseph Mitchell: mysterious chronicler of the margins of New York

NY Times: This Was New York. It Was.

NY Times: My Ears Are Bent – Joseph Mitchell

W – Joseph Mitchell

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