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Joseph Mitchell's 1935 essay draws renewed attention

Original: Sidenote: Joseph Mitchell is a fascinating person to look up. His contribution to this collection is from 1935. He becam

Readers are highlighting Joseph Mitchell, the American journalist best known for his New Yorker profiles. A piece of his from 1935 is being praised in a recent collection, with notes on his remarkable career: he joined the New Yorker staff in 1938 and kept a desk there until his death, yet after 1964 he struggled with writer's block and published almost nothing further.

Why now: The striking contrast between his long New Yorker tenure and his decades of silence is capturing book readers' interest.

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• Sidenote: Joseph Mitchell is a fascinating person to look up. His contribution to this collection is from 1935. He became a New Yorker staff member in 1938 and maintained a desk there until his death, but from 1964 he suffered from writer's block and didn't produce any further… · kate_in_a_book@mas.to · 2

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