Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. Gould began his life’s work before the First World War, announcing that he intended to write down nearly everything anyone ever said to him. By 1942, when The New Yorker published a profile of Gould written by the reporter Joseph Mitchell, Gould’s manuscript […]
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