My Ears Are Bent
by Joseph Mitchell | 
Here is New York
by E. B. White | 
American Stories
by Calvin Trillin | 
The Colossus of New York
by Colson Whitehead |
The Long-Winded Lady
by Maeve Brennan |
The Telephone Booth Indian
by A. J. Liebling |
The Devil Problem
by David Remnick | 
Hooking Up
by Tom Wolfe |
Reporting at Wit's End
by St. Clair McKelway | 
Take the Cannoli
by Sarah Vowell |
The 40s
by The New Yorker |
The Library at Night
by Alberto Manguel | 
Impossible Owls
by Brian Phillips |
The View from the Cheap Seats
by Neil Gaiman | 
Other Colors
by Orhan Pamuk | 
An Informal History of the Hugos
by Jo Walton | 
Looking for History
by Alma Guillermoprieto | 
Choice Cuts
by Mark Kurlansky | 
Joe Gould's Secret
by Joseph Mitchell | 
Paris Was Ours
by Penelope Rowlands |
Saloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-year-old "seafoodetarian" who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades. These are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his reportage for