{"id":3939,"date":"2015-09-24T22:30:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T22:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2015-09-24T22:30:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T22:30:58","slug":"man-in-profile-joseph-mitchell-of-the-new-yorker-by-thomas-kunkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3939","title":{"rendered":"Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker by Thomas Kunkel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3959\" style=\"width: 136px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1600136\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3959\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Man-in-Profile-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"Man in Profile\" width=\"136\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Man-in-Profile-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Man-in-Profile.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a biography of one of the most famous staff writers for the <em>New Yorker Magazine<\/em>.\u00a0 Mitchell, from small-town North Carolina, was drawn to a writing career and landed in New York as a journalist.\u00a0 He quickly became noticed by the <em>New Yorker<\/em>, and joined the staff in the heyday of the magazine.\u00a0 The <em>New Yorker<\/em> featured the most\u00a0notable writers of the day &#8212;\u00a0 James Thurber, E. B. White, A. J. Liebling, Dorothy Parker, John Hersey&#8230;the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell was interested in the characters in New York who made the City tick &#8212;\u00a0bartenders, fishermen, eccentric characters, tug boat captains.\u00a0 He is credited with\u00a0raising journalism into the realm of literary art.\u00a0 There were controversies along the way, and toward the end of his life, a stunning mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a biography of one of the most famous staff writers for the New Yorker Magazine.\u00a0 Mitchell, from small-town North Carolina, was drawn to a writing career and landed in New York as a journalist.\u00a0 He quickly became noticed by the New Yorker, and joined the staff in the heyday of the magazine.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3939\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker by Thomas Kunkel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}