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Investigative Journalism

Joe Gould’s Secret, I

By Joseph Mitchell · The New Yorker · September 1964

Joe Gould’s Secret, I

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"An eccentric Village bohemian claimed to be the author of the longest book ever written. The truth turned out to be even stranger."

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