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          The legendary New Yorker writer freely mixed fact and fiction—much of what he wrote wouldn’t meet today’s fact-checking standards.

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          6. But maybe literary journalism has lost more than it’s gained.

          By Ruth Franklin

          As a cub reporter in New York in the 1930s, Joseph Mitchell once listened in on the questioning of a prostitute who had allegedly allowed her body to serve as the altar for a Black Mass.

          Asked why she had become a prostitute, the woman replied, “I just wanted to be accommodating.” Mitchell adored this remark. “The best talk is artless,” he concluded. “Now and then … someone says something so unexpected it is magnificent.”

          Mitchell made a legendary career out of listening to, recording, and shaping that artless talk.

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          Of the first generation of New Yorker writers—A. J. Liebling, Janet Flanner, E. B. White—he remains the most influential. His immersive techniques and famously lucid style have given ris