{"id":14540,"date":"2026-10-17T10:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T17:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14540"},"modified":"2026-10-17T10:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T17:45:36","slug":"joseph-mitchell-on-joe-gould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/joseph-mitchell-on-joe-gould\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Mitchell on Joe Gould"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You really should read Joseph Mitchell. \u00a0As someone who knows what good writing is, I can tell you that he is a master of American English. Get yourself a copy of\u00a0<em>Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories<\/em>, Vintage 1993, and enjoy. Why read the contemporary stuff in\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em> when you can read Mitchell? There is\u00a0 a link to Mitchell in my <em>Substack<\/em> article, <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/even-misfits-find-their-fit?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=copy\">Even Misfits Find their &#8216;Fit.&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14541\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Joe-Gould.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Joe-Gould.webp 536w, https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Joe-Gould-209x300.webp 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 85vw, 536px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You really should read Joseph Mitchell. \u00a0As someone who knows what good writing is, I can tell you that he is a master of American English. Get yourself a copy of\u00a0Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories, Vintage 1993, and enjoy. Why read the contemporary stuff in\u00a0The New Yorker when you can read Mitchell? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/joseph-mitchell-on-joe-gould\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joseph Mitchell on Joe Gould&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,40,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bohemianism","category-literary-matters","category-questers-and-other-oddballs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14542,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions\/14542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}