Oral History

Joe Gould’s secret is an amazing novel. Joseph Mitchell does an amazing job at painting a detailed portrait of the intricacies of Joe Gould. The thing about Joe Gould that interested me the most was his book of Oral History. I thought it was really interesting how he carried around that huge book for all those years and had all kinds of nasty stains on them. I also enjoyed the way Mitchell described Gould’s physical appearance as well. Just from reading his description I felt like I knew him.