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Saloon keepers, streets preachers, gypsies, steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded female, and a 93-year-old "seafoodetarian" who believes his particular diet will keep him alive for another two decades are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his reportage for the New Yorker and in four books - McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom level of the Harbor, and Joe Gould's Magic formula - that remain renowned because of their respectful observation, their graveyard humor, and their offhand perfection of style. These masterpieces (along with several recently uncollected testimonies) can be purchased in one level, which reveals an indelible collective portrait of any unsuspected New York and its own odder individuals - as depicted by one of the fantastic writers of this or any other time.
