NewYorker.com, 9/30/13 "[A] wonderful memoir." Slate, 12/2/13 "Your best guide when it comes to Inside Llewyn Davis--apart from what follows, of course--is Van Ronk's posthumous memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street ." New York Times , 11/30/13 "[A] sharp cantankerous memoir." New York Review of Books blog, 12/16/2013 "The movie extensively mines Van Ronk's remarkable posthumous memoir The Mayor of MacDougal Street (seamlessly compiled from interviews by Elijah Wald; Da Capo, 2005) for scenes, anecdotes, and details of background, and its protagonist, Llewyn Davis (played by Oscar Isaac) sings songs closely associated with Van Ronk." Seattle Times, 12/15/2013 "[A] delightful, keenly-observed, cantankerous autobiography.which, if you love #145;Inside Llewyn Davis' you owe it to yourself to read." Paste Magazine , 12/12/2013 "[An] acclaimed and enjoyable memoir.

" NewYorker.com, 1/22/2014 " The Mayor of MacDougal Street is one of the dozen best books ever written about a New York life and time: dense with wisdom, humor, judgment, and an amazingly vivid recreation of the rites and rituals and characters of a whole lost world and scene.".