Compiles essays that previously appeared in "The New Yorker," including pieces on Benjamin Shine, the Brooklyn Court buff; motion picture magnate Sam Cohn; street musician Rubin Levine; and other colorful personalities

Mr. Personality: Profiles and Talk Pieces

Literature & Fiction

Singer, Mark

Humor & Satire

Collier Books

Recounts the dazzling heydey and precipitous collapse of Oklahoma's Penn Square Bank and focuses on the colorful personalities of the financial wheelers and dealers and gas and oil speculators involved

Funny Money

Business & Money

Economics

KNOPF

Compiles essays that previously appeared in "The New Yorker," including pieces on Benjamin Shine, the Brooklyn court buff; motion picture magnate Sam Cohn; street musician Rubin Levine; and other colorful personalities

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Trump and Me

Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race—in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants—he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history. It was not always so. In 1996, longtime New Yorker writer Mark Singer was conscripted by his editor to profile Donald Trump. At that time Trump was a mere Manhattan-centric megalomaniac, a failing casino operator mired in his second divorce and (he claimed) recovering from the bankruptcy proceedings that prompted him to inventory the contents of his Trump Tower home. Conversing with Trump in his offices, apartments, cars, and private plane, Singer found himself fascinated with this man “who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.” In Trump and Me, Singer revisits the profile and recounts how its publication lodged inside its subject’s head as an enduring irritant—and how Singer (“A TOTAL LOSER!” according to Trump) cheerfully continued to bait him. He reflects on Trump’s evolution from swaggering buffoon to potential threat to America’s standing as a rational guardian of the world order. Heedlessly combative, equally adept at spewing insults and manipulating crowds at his campaign rallies, the self-proclaimed billionaire has emerged as an unlikely tribune of populist rage. All politics is artifice, and Singer marvels at how Trump has transfixed an electorate with his ultimate feat of performance art—a mass political movement only loosely tethered to reality.

Tim Duggan Books

Desde que Donald Trump se sumó a la carrera por la presidencia de Estados Unidos —en una rueda de prensa a la que asistieron actores pagados y en la que calumnió a los migrantes mexicanos— ha monopolizado los titulares de los periódicos y se ha convertido en el centro de una de las elecciones más extrañas y alarmantes de la historia norteamericana. No siempre fue así. En 1996 el veterano colaborador del New Yorker, Mark Singer, realizó un perfil del pintoresco personaje. En esa época, Trump era tan sólo un megalómano mentiroso de manhattan y un fracasado operador de casinos que intentaba recuperarse de los procedimientos legales de quiebra que le exigían hacer un inventario de su hogar: un rascacielos que lleva su nombre. Mientras conversaba con Trump en sus oficinas, sus pisos, sus coches e incluso en un avión privado, Singer se descubrió a sí mismo fascinado con este hombre que “alcanzó el lujo máximo: una existencia sin el perturbador rumor de un alma”. En este libro, el autor actualiza el célebre perfil y relata cómo su publicación significó una continua provocación para Donald Trump, quien pasó de ser un bufón estridente a una amenaza, un multimillonario que pretende volverse el guardián del orden mundial.

El show de Trump / Trump and Me: El perfil de un vendedor de humo (Vintage Espanol, 41) (Spanish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Vintage Espanol

A writer for The New Yorker introduces readers to a surreal, bizarre America, depicting the inside of a cockfighting ring, teenage reporters in a small Texas town, a meeting of obituary writers, the influence of a western Massachusetts diner on its community, and other colorful cultural dimensions of twenty-first-century America.

Somewhere in America: Under the Radar With Chicken Warriors, Left-Wing Patriots, Angry Nudists, and Others

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Houghton/Mifflin

Filled with profiles of fascinating Americans, this selection of biographical essays by the New Yorker writer features produce farmer Tom Chino, illusionist Ricky Jay, director Martin Scorcese, chefs Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck, and many others.

Character Studies: Encounters With The Curiously Obsessed

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

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.

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

Mariner Books

From esteemed New Yorker writer Mark Singer comes this cautionary tale of the Penn Square Bank, the oil and gas broker in an Oklahoma City shopping mall whose collapse in 1982 staggered America’s banking industry. Recounting the whole spectacular story and its colorful characters, Singer makes brilliantly (and hilariously) clear what actually happened and why it had to happen in boom-time Oklahoma. Nowhere else did money flow in quite the same spontaneous fashion. “[A] tale of wonderful verve” (New York Times), Funny Money comes to life through Singer's vivid prose and continues to resonate in today's culture of corporate corruption.

Biography & History

A writer for The New Yorker introduces readers to a surreal, bizarre America, depicting the inside of a cockfighting ring, teenage reporters in a small Texas town, a meeting of obituary writers, the influence of a western Massachusetts diner on its community, and other colorful cultural dimensions of twenty-first-century America. Reprint.

Somewhere In America: Under The Radar With Chicken Warriors, Left-Wing Patriots, Angry Nudists, And Others

History

Americas

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Books by Singer, Mark

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Mr. Personality: Profiles and Talk Pieces

Funny Money

Mr. Personality: Profiles and Talk Pieces

Trump and Me

El show de Trump / Trump and Me: El perfil de un vendedor de humo (Vintage Espanol, 41) (Spanish Edition)

Somewhere in America: Under the Radar With Chicken Warriors, Left-Wing Patriots, Angry Nudists, and Others

Character Studies: Encounters With The Curiously Obsessed

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

Funny Money

Somewhere In America: Under The Radar With Chicken Warriors, Left-Wing Patriots, Angry Nudists, And Others