{"product_id":"the-bottom-of-the-harbor","title":"The Bottom of the Harbor","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJoseph Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e (1908-1996) came to New York City on October 25, 1929, from the swamp country of southeastern North Carolina. He worked as a reporter and feature writer for \n\u003ci\u003eThe World\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eThe World-Telegram\u003c\/i\u003e for eight years, and then went to \n\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, where he remained until his death. Mitchell's interests included the waterfront and architecture of New York City, commercial fishing, Southern agriculture, and Irish literature. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJoana Avillez\u003c\/b\u003e is an illustrator from and still living in New York. Her drawings and illustrated stories have appeared in \n\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, \n\u003ci\u003eZeit Magazin\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eApartamento\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other places. She illustrated \n\u003ci\u003eD C-T\u003c\/i\u003e, written with Molly Young, and Lena Dunham's memoir, \n\u003ci\u003eNot That Kind of Girl\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Line\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIllustrated by Joana Avillez; With a new Introduction by Josh Safdie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"While trying to bring new life to \n\u003ci\u003eThe Bottom of the Harbor\u003c\/i\u003e, Avillez went deep into the world captured by Mitchell. The work also became a Proustian undertaking as Avillez found herself excavating memories of her 1990s seaport girlhood and the death of her father, Martim Avillez, who taught her how to draw.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This book has provided me with endless hours of delight, nostalgia, wit, and whimsy. Joana Avillez's illustrations bring to life the work of a man who had unparalleled ability to see the unseen, to believe the unbelievable, and to gently pry into the lives of New York's greatest eccentrics.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Lena Dunham, author of \u003ci\u003eNot That Kind of Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Joseph Mitchell was one of the greatest listeners who ever lived and a virtuoso of American prose. He was also a kind of spirit medium, absorbing the stories people told him and penetrating the unconscious mind of the city.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Lucy Sante, author of \u003ci\u003eLow Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Pairing Mitchell's iconic ode to mid-century Manhattan with drawings by Avillez is a match made in heaven.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Prudence Peiffer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Slip \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With the sort of wise, charming-as-hell, universe-containing illustrations I️'ve only seen before in illustrated classics, Avillez revives this sweetly salty, poetically precise book of New York waterway essays.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Liana Finck, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Baby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Joana Avillez's exquisite line drawings add new depths of wit, charm, and soulfulness to this timeless collection. . . . An edition to treasure.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Lauren Redniss, author of \u003ci\u003eRadioactive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Due to Mitchell's observational genius, these six unassuming stories about daily life and working people brim with the kind of power and meaning and significance we know to be abundant yet struggle to find in our lives and in the books we read.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Kathryn Scanlan, author of \u003ci\u003eKick the Latch\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Essential for any fan of city history . . . a glorious reintroduction to Mitchell for devotees--and a perfect indoctrination for newcomers.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eAda Calhoun, author of \u003ci\u003eWhy We Can't Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Joseph Mitchell turns over rocks and prods the roly polys with his pen in the most sensitive way possible. The result is one of the greatest portraits of New York City and the lost beautiful souls who inhabit it.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Josh Safdie, writer and director of \u003ci\u003eUncut Gems\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMarty Supreme\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"When people think of New York, they are thinking of Joseph Mitchell. Even if they don't know it. Mitchell captured the city's unique concoction of proximity, curiosity, and humanity like no one else. His breed of detail has found a natural fit in Joanna Avillez's joyful and precise illustrations.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Sloane Crosley, author of \u003ci\u003eGrief Is for People\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"It's hard to believe that a book this beautiful could ever be made more so. Joseph Mitchell made his ode to the Hudson estuary and its inhabitants with a patient attentiveness that is today rare and endangered, in prose as elsewhere. Enter Joana Avillez, who, with pen and ink, has matched Mitchell, her drawings adding new dimensions of care.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Robert Sullivan, author of \u003ci\u003eRats\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA classic of literary reporting from one of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's most iconic writers reveals the vibrant world of old New York and the ordinary people who made it great, now with illustrations by renowned artist Joana Avillez and an introduction by filmmaker and writer Josh Safdie.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Joana Avillez's illustrations bring to life the work of a man who had unparalleled ability to see the unseen, to believe the unbelievable, and to gently pry into the lives of New York's greatest eccentrics.\"--Lena Dunham\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere have been few writers as distinctly tied to New York City throughout its long literary history as Joseph Mitchell. As an acclaimed essayist for \n\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e Mitchell wandered the alleyways, graveyards, saloons, and storefronts of midcentury New York, immortalizing city dwellers with his indelible pen portraits. In \"The Bottom of the Harbor,\" first published sixty years ago, Mitchell transports us to the fabled vanishing terrain he was most magnetically drawn to: New York's waterfront. In \"Up in the Old Hotel,\" Mitchell and the eponymous proprietor of Sloppy Louie's seafood restaurant explore the upper reaches of the harbor's storied, abandoned old hotel. \"The Rats on the Waterfront\" examines the habits of New York's greasiest residents. And widely considered one of the greatest works of nonfiction ever printed in \n\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e \"Mr. Hunter's Grave\" draws the reader into the eddies of time surrounding a particular graveyard on the South Shore of Staten Island. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new edition features stunning original black-and-white illustrations by another inveterate New Yorker, Joana Avillez. Raised near the Fulton Fish Market, the place that Mitchell credited with first making him feel truly at home in the city, Avillez has long turned her keen eye and nimble pen on the everyday comings and goings of city denizens. Her ebullient style adds another dimension to Joseph Mitchell's vivid character studies. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Bottom of the Harbor \u003c\/i\u003eis a timeless love letter to New York, an elegy to what it once was, and an expression of hope for its future. 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