Mr. Personality: Profiles and Talk Pieces from The New Yorker - Softcover

Singer, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618197265 ISBN 13: 9780618197262

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2005

Synopsis

Mr. Personality brings together the best of Mark Singer's profiles and "Talk of the Town" pieces from The New Yorker (1977-1989). In these thirty-three essays, Singer presents a slice of New York and its citizens in a way that only he can. From the prolific filmmaker Errol Morris and a family of superintendents to one of the last great zipper-fixers, a court buff in Brooklyn, and Mr. Personality himself, these remarkable portraits offer something for every reader.

About this title

About the Author:

Mark Singer has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1974. He is the author of Funny Money, Mr. Personality, Citizen K, and Somewhere in America. He lives in New York City.

From Publishers Weekly:

Ever since William Shawn hired him, at 24, in 1974, to write Talk of the Town pieces for the New Yorker , Tulsa-born Mark Singer ( Funny Money ) has been a genuine New Yorker, whose delightfully whimsical interviews with fellow townspeople have brought joy to readers everywhere. Among these 31 reprinted pieces are portraits not only of three eminent retireesradio humorist Goodman Ace, TV news producer Gordon Manning and Bill Schifrin, who sold wedding rings for 40 years on W. 47th St.but also of zipper repairman Herbert Stiefel, knife sharpener Lenny Binelli, penal museum curator Joe Baranyi, pigeon mumbler Patrick Sottile and auto wreck renter Larry Cohen. Other pieces profile the five Brennan brothers, who live in and superintend East Side luxury apartment houses; former traveling bow-tie salesman and active theatrical dealmaker Sam Cohen; and sidewalk violin serenader Rubin Levine, who has a repertoire of 30,000 tunes ("if time permits"). There's something, and somebody, here for everyone.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0618197265
• ISBN 13: 9780618197262
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 410