![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You are my present." Born in Boston, Mazie now lives in New York with her older sister Rosie, who has rescued her and another sister from their parents, "a rat" and "a simp." Rosie's husband, Louis Gordon, owns a cinema, and at 21, Mazie begins her long career as ticket-seller. 1, 1907, with this entry: "Today is my birthday. Attenberg's fictional Mazie begins a diary she will keep for 32 years on Nov. She was profiled by New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell in an essay collected in Up in the Old Hotel (1992), which is how Attenberg ( The Middlesteins, 2013, etc.) came to know of her. Mazie Phillips was a real person, a rough-and-ready Mother Theresa who walked the streets of Lower Manhattan in the early 1930s, giving out money for food, buying drinks, calling ambulances. Early 20th-century New York and its denizens portrayed through the fictional diary of a nonfictional heroine. ![]()
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