Up in the Old HotelBy: Joseph Mitchell 'The master of a journalistic style long vanished urbane, lucid, courteous A masterpiece of observation and storytelling' Ian McEwan Mitchell 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