The story of a notorious New York eccentric and the journalist who chronicled his life: "A little masterpiece of observation and storytelling" (Ian McEwan).Joseph Mitchell was a cornerstone of the New Yorker staff for decades, but his prolific career was shattered by an extraordinary case of writer's block. For the final thirty-two years of his life, Mitchell published nothing. And the key to his silence may lie in his last major work: t...

The truth is that most relationship conflicts are not just about the situation at hand. They are often driven by deeper emotional patterns—automatic reactions, protective habits, and unspoken needs that both partners carry within themselves. Internal family systems for couples offers a powerful and compassionate framework to help you understand these patterns and transform the way you relate to each other. This book guides couples through the process of recognizing emotional triggers, unde...

‘It's a masterpiece, of course, but more than that it shows that there is some such thing as being a simple observer’ Nicci French, IndependentIt was 1932 when Joseph Mitchell first came across Joe Gould, a Harvard-educated vagrant of Greenwich Village. Penniless, filthy, scurrilous, charming, thieving, Joe Gould was widely considered a genius. He was working on a book he called an Oral History – the longest book ever written he claimed, formed of recorded conversations se...

'The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous... A masterpiece of observation and storytelling' Ian McEwanMitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. He captured the waterfront rooming-houses , nickel-a-drink saloons, all-night restaurants, the 'visionaries, obsessives, imposters, fanatics, lost souls, the end-is-near street preachers, old Gypsy Kings and old Gypsy Queens, an...

'The master of a journalistic style long vanished - urbane, lucid, courteous... A masterpiece of observation and storytelling' Ian McEwanMitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. He captured the waterfront rooming-houses , nickel-a-drink saloons, all-night restaurants, the 'visionaries, obsessives, imposters, fanatics, lost souls, the end-is-near street preachers, old Gypsy Kings and old Gypsy Queens, an...

After Joe Gould's Secret - 'a miniature masterpiece of a shaggy dog story' (Observer) - here is another collection of stories by Joseph Mitchell, each connected in one way or another with the waterfront of New York City. As William Fiennes wrote in the London Review of Books, 'Mitchell was the laureate of the waters around New York', and in The Bottom of the Harbor he records the lives and practices of the rivermen, with love and understanding and a sharp eye for the eccentric and strange....

After Joe Gould's Secret - 'a miniature masterpiece of a shaggy dog story' (Observer) - here is another collection of stories by Joseph Mitchell, each connected in one way or another with the waterfront of New York City. As William Fiennes wrote in the London Review of Books, 'Mitchell was the laureate of the waters around New York', and in The Bottom of the Harbor he records the lives and practices of the rivermen, with love and understanding and a sharp eye for the eccentric and strange....

They were asleep for 572 years...Shard Mountain is an epic science-fiction fantasy novel set in a distant post-apocalypse future America.Three young men involved in a highway accident are surprised to wake up not in a hospital, but in a dark underground tomb, five-hundred years in the future.They emerge to discover a world completely unlike anything they knew, where bizarre mutations are common among people and wildlife, and scraps of futuristic technology are dug f...

Famed New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, as a young newspaper reporter in 1930s New York, interviewed fan dancers, street evangelists, voodoo conjurers, not to mention a lady boxer who also happened to be a countess. Mitchell haunted parts of the city now vanished: the fish market, burlesque houses, tenement neighborhoods, and storefront churches. Whether he wrote about a singing first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers or a nudist who does a reverse striptease, Mitchell brilliantly...

All of us have spirit guides watching over us and waiting for us to ask for their help. These spirit guides are there just for you, they have been especially chosen for you, and their only purpose to be around you is to help you grow spiritually or resolve a crisis situation you are in or help you fulfill your dreams. The only issue is that if you don't ask them, they won't be able to help. While some of these guides stay with you throughout your life, others appear in your life when you a...

All of us have spirit guides watching over us and waiting for us to ask for their help. These spirit guides are there just for you, they have been especially chosen for you, and their only purpose to be around you is to help you grow spiritually or resolve a crisis situation you are in or help you fulfill your dreams. The only issue is that if you don't ask them, they won't be able to help. While some of these guides stay with you throughout your life, others appear in your life when you a...

William Shakespeare, long hailed as the history's greatest dramatic writer, has been lauded for his mastery of poetic expression, his insight into the human condition and his deep exploration into the psyche and motivations of his characters. These skills are perhaps best encapsulated in the monologues he gives his various protagonists, villains and bit players.From King Henry V's inspiring speech to his soldiers on the field of Agincourt to the villainous Merchant of Venice Shyloc...