December 10, 1999

Verbatim

By JEFF SHARLET

Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier, with photographs by Ovie Carter (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Mitchell Duneier entered the world of New York City street vending in 1992, when he found a copy of his first book offered for sale by a book vendor. Over the next seven years, Mr. Duneier, a sociologist with appointments at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of California at Santa Barbara, spent as much time as he could talking -- and working -- with street

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