Up in the Old Hotel

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 preachers, old Gypsy Kings and old Gypsy Queens, and out-and-out freak-show freaks.' Mitchell's trademark curiosity, respect and graveyard humour fuel these magical essays.

El a surprins casele de camere de la malul apei, saloanele cu bautura buna, restaurantele toata noaptea, ,,vizionarii, obsesivii, impostorii, fanaticii, sufletele pierdute, predicatorii strazii care se afla aproape, batranii regi tigani si reginele tiganilor", si nenorociti din spectacolul de ciudati. Curiozitatea, respectul si umorul de cimitir al lui Mitchell alimenteaza aceste eseuri magice.