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Famed New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, as a young newspaper reporter in 1930s New York, interviewed fandancers, street evangelists, voodoo conjurers, not to mention a lady boxer who alsohappened to be a countess. Mitchell haunted parts of the city now vanished: the fishmarket, burlesque houses, tenement neighborhoods, and storefront churches. Whetherhe wrote about a singing first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers or a nudist who doesa reverse striptease, Mitchell brilliantly illuminated the humanity in the oddestNew Yorkers.

These pieces, written primarily for The World-Telegram and The HeraldTribune, highlight his abundant gifts of empathy and observation, and give us thefull-bodied picture of the famed New Yorker writer Mitchell would become.