Joe Gould's Secret

Name: Joe Gould's Secret
Author: Joseph Mitchell

by Joseph Mitchell

Essay on eccentric figure Joe Gould and truth, identity, and deception

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Joseph Mitchell

American journalist who worked at The New Yorker for sixty years but published nothing in his last thirty. McSorley's Wonderful Saloon and Joe Gould's Secret are masterworks of literary journalism. His portraits of the marginal and eccentric inhabitants of New York are among the finest in the language.

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