Re: What are people reading?


Subject: Re: What are people reading?
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 20:23:08 EST


At 2:08 PM -0800 on 2/3/2000, Ed wrote:

> The last book I finished was Joe Gould's Secret.

What did you think of this book? Old Joe Mitchell did a Salinger of
his own; after he published in the 1960s in the New Yorker, he went
something like 30 years of coming to the office and confronting what
is presumed to be writer's block, after a very prolific career. I've
often wondered if he and Salinger might have bumped into each other
-- and that Mitchell would have been able to write a devastatingly
insightful profile of Salinger, if given the chance.

Mitchell's two essays on Joe Gould are splendid, I think. (As is
much of the rest of his omnibus anthology, Up in the Old Hotel.)

BTW, the Minetta Tavern is still there, where Gould held court so
long ago, but much of the rest is gone, especially the "cafeterias."

Hmmmm.... "Duelling, Unpublishing New Yorkers: The Works of Joseph
Mitchell and J.D. Salinger." Some perfectly oaty Ph.D. candidate
should grab that one.

--tim o'connor

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