Mischel attended New York University, studying poetry under Delmore Schwartz and Allen Tate, and taking studio-art classes with Philip Guston.

NEWYORKER: Don??t!

Mr. TOM CHAPLIN (Vocalist, Delmore Brothers): (Singing) We were just a plain old hillbilly band was the plain old country style, we'd never played the kind of songs that it drives anybody wild...

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There is a trick here, which Shelton very nearly pulls off: so artless is her approach, with its ambling conversation and hovering, on-the-spot camerawork, and so generous are her actors (Delmore being the standout) that we wind up half-believing what is, by any standard, a ridiculous conceit.

NEWYORKER: Humpday