John Berger
Way of seeing

For more than thirty years, the story goes, the writer Joseph Mitchell went to his office at The New Yorker on West Forty-Third Street, worked behind a closed door, and never published another story. Amid the demolished buildings of his beloved and changing New York City, he felt like a stranger to himself. The mystery of Mitchell’s so-called silent years is an untold story—until now.

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For more than thirty years, the story goes, the writer Joseph Mitchell went to his office at The New Yorker on West Forty-Third Street, worked behind a closed door, and never published another story. Amid the demolished buildings of his beloved and changing New York City, he felt like a stranger to himself. The mystery of Mitchell’s so-called silent years is an untold story—until now.

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    • Quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
    • Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse.
    • Velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.
    • Excepteur sint occaecat.
    • Cupidatat non proident, sunt.
    • In culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
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For more than thirty years, the story goes, the writer Joseph Mitchell went to his office at The New Yorker on West Forty-Third Street, worked behind a closed door, and never published another story. Amid the demolished buildings of his beloved and changing New York City, he felt like a stranger to himself. The mystery of Mitchell’s so-called silent years is an untold story—until now.

    • Chronicles Mitchell’s life among the lost-lost haunts of New York.
    • Follows his two great loves, the natural world and literature.
    • Draws on previously unpublished letters, notes, and drafts, and Michell’s vast collection of found objects.
    • Publication date: 5/1/2024
    • 253 pages
    • Publisher: Lost River Press
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