![]() She rewinds Mazie's life, initially taking us back to 1907 when 10-year-old Mazie Phillips receives a leather diary as a birthday gift from her volatile older sister, Rosie. She was already a Bowery celebrity, known for her daily distributions of coins to bums ground down by the Depression.Īttenberg sees her from a different perspective. Mitchell's portrait of Mazie captured her as a woman in her 40s: short and bosomy, who could "smoke a cigarette down to the end and not take it from her mouth once, even while talking." Here Mazie continues to grab the lapels and hearts of readers - and we are all the more glad for the shake-up she gives us. The real-life Mazie first appeared in a 1940 New Yorker profile by Joseph Mitchell and later again in his seminal collection, "Up in the Old Hotel." Now Mazie's latest, and perhaps more powerful incarnation, is in the novel "Saint Mazie" by Jami Attenberg. ![]() ![]() Mazie Phillips-Gordon, the brassy proprietor of a seedy 1930s Bowery movie theater, stubbornly refuses to fade into obscurity. ![]()
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