{"product_id":"my-ears-are-bent-9780375726309","title":"My Ears Are Bent","description":"\u003cp\u003eFamed \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e 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 illuminated the humanity in the oddest New Yorkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese pieces, written primarily for \u003ci\u003eThe World-Telegram\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, highlight his abundant gifts of empathy and observation, and give us the full-bodied picture of the famed \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e writer Mitchell would become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e was born near Iona, North Carolina, in 1908, and came to New York City in 1929, when he was twenty-one years old. He eventually found a job as an apprentice crime reporter for \u003ci\u003eThe World\u003c\/i\u003e. He also worked as a reporter and features writer at \u003ci\u003eThe Herald Tribune \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe World-Telegram \u003c\/i\u003ebefore landing at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ein 1938, where he remained until his death in 1996.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51690511892754,"sku":"9780375726309","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_87b29404-4a38-4935-8427-c27f6877f042.jpg?v=1761737519","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-ears-are-bent-9780375726309","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}