Joe Gould’s Secret-Fast Shipping

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Joseph Mitchell was a legendary
New Yorker writer and the author ofthe national bestseller
Up in the Old Hotel, in which these two pieces Joseph Mitchell wrote about, principally, was New Joe Gould, Mitchellfound the perfect
Joe Gould’s Secret has become a legendary piece ofNew York history.

Joe Gould may have been the quintessential Greenwich Village 1916, he left behind patrician roots for a scrappy, hand-to-mouth existence: hewore ragtag clothes, slept in Bowery flophouses, and mooched food, drinks, and moneyoff of friends and strangers. Thus he was able to devote his energies to writing”An Oral History of Our Time,” which Gould said would constitute “the informal historyof the shirt-sleeved multitude.” But when Joe Gould died in 1957, the manuscriptcould not be found. Where had he hidden it?This is
Joe Gould’s Secret.

“[Mitchellis] one of our finest journalists.”–Dawn Powell, The Washington Post

“What peoplesay is history–Joe Gould was right about that–and history, when recorded by Mitchell,is literature.”–The New Criterion