Book · 1992 · Nonfiction
Up in the Old Hotel
Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 716 pages
★ 5.7 editorial score
Mitchell listened to New York for decades: the regulars at McSorley's, the fishermen at Fulton Market, and Joe Gould, a Village drifter compiling a nine-million-word oral history from everything he overheard.




