Joe Gould's Secret
2000
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Around 1940 New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals drinks and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World a record of 20000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him "Professor Seagull" bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.
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