{"title":"Joseph Mitchell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Mitchell\u003c\/strong\u003e is celebrated for his masterful storytelling that bridges journalism and literature, offering intimate portraits of New York City's colourful characters. Readers can expect richly detailed narratives that explore the unseen lives and quiet dramas of everyday people, with a profound sensitivity to place and personality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis works, such as \u003cem\u003eJoe Gould's Secret\u003c\/em\u003e, blend biography and memoir, inviting readers into a world where fact and narrative intertwine. Mitchell’s writing captures the rhythms of urban life with a subtle, elegant style that honours both his subjects and the art of storytelling itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"joe-goulds-secret-by-joseph-mitchell-9781784875619","title":"Joe Gould's Secret","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA compelling portrait of a true New York eccentric and the agony of writer's block. After the publication of this book, Joseph Mitchell never published another word during three decades working as a reporter for the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'It's a masterpiece, of course, but more than that it shows that there is some such thing as being a simple observer'\u003c\/em\u003e — Nicci French, Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was 1932 when Joseph Mitchell first came across Joe Gould, a Harvard-educated vagrant of Greenwich Village. Penniless, filthy, scurrilous, charming, thieving, Joe Gould was widely considered a genius. He was working on a book he called an Oral History — the longest book ever written, he claimed, formed of recorded conversations set down in exercise books. Of course, when Gould died, the great epic was nowhere to be found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis compelling portrait of a true New York eccentric, a man who embodied the disconnected, delusional nature of real life, was Mitchell's personal enquiry into the agony of writer's block.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoe Gould's Secret\u003c\/em\u003e can be found in the longer collection of Mitchell's writing \u003cem\u003eUp in the Old Hotel\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47403703697644,"sku":"9781784875619","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/91WAN-dQ9KL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773863990"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/joseph-mitchell.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}