it's a Shame...:

The Master Writer of the City : Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker by Thomas Kunkel In 1942 The New Yorker published Joseph Mitchell's profile of a homeless man in Greenwich Village named Joe Gould, whose claim to notice--the thing that separated him from other sad misfits--was "a formless, rather mysterious book" he was known to be writing called "An Oral History of Our Time," begun twenty-six years earlier and already, at nine million words, "eleven times as long as the Bible." Twenty-two years later, in 1964, the magazine published another piece by Mitchell called "Joe Gould's Secret" that ran in two parts, and that drew a rather less sympathetic and a good deal more interesting portrait of Gould.

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