the sporting life ·
Mark Singer on Roger Angell, who travelled to the National Baseball Hall of Fame to receive the J. G. Taylor Spink Award “for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.”
Mark Singer
Mark Singer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1974 and is the author of “ Trump and Me.”
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a reporter at large ·
A Michigan dentist’s improbable transformation.
a reporter at large ·
A Pacific odyssey.
profiles ·
The chef who catches your dinner.
u.s. journal ·
Mark Singer on Cooke City, Montana, where “high-marking”—a dangerous snowmobiling sport—is king.
u.s. journal ·
A liberal town’s school system meets the new patriotism.
profiles ·
Mark Singer’s 2000 profile of Martin Scorsese. “What drives a Scorsese tale is his talent for weaving variegated optical and aural and emotional textures. Underlying these dazzling gifts is his compulsion to provoke discomfort in himself and his audience.”
profiles ·
PROFILE of Alan C. (Ace) Greenberg, chairman of Bear Sterns... Writer attends a morning walk in Central Park. Greenberg lives off Fifth Avenue in the …
profiles ·
Mark Singer’s 1998 Profile of the immensely popular and prolific novelist Stephen King, whose horrors seduce us with scenes and places that are reassuringly familiar.
profiles ·
Mark Singer on Donald Trump and his divorce from Marla Maples.
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Brett Coleman Kimberlin... Writer completed and published a story on the eve of the last Presidential election, in which …
profiles ·
Mark Singer sits down with the magician Ricky Jay, whose illusions flout reality, and who rejects the idea that magic is a suitable entertainment for children.
profiles ·
PROFILE of moviemaker Errol Morris. During the past twelve years he has directed and released three films: "Gates of Heaven", about two pet cemeteries in …
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profiles ·
PROFILE of W. Graham Arader III, 37, a purveyor of 16th to 19th century paintings, Early American engravings, watercolors & prints, important natural …
profiles ·
PROFILE of the five Brennan brothers (Pete, Tony, Paddy, Mickey, and George), who are all superintendents of luxury apartment houses on the east side of …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Rubin Levine, 65-year-old native New Yorker and street violinist. He owns three violins: a Heverlein, a Schuster, and a steel-stringed Roth. In …
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PROFILE of Sam Cohn, 52, a motion-picture and theatrical talent agent. At International Creative Management on W. 57th St., the agency where he works, his …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Benjamin Shine, of Brooklyn, a 73-year-old court buff, an individual who spends most of his days observing criminal trials at the State Supreme …
a reporter at large ·
A REPORTER AT LARGE about roguish Oklahoma politician and businessman, Gene Stipe, a 52-year-old trial attorney and Democratic state senator who lives in …
profiles ·
PROFILE of Goodman Ace. In 1933, Frank Hummert, who ran the New York office of Blackette-Sample-Hummert, hired Goodman Ace and his wife Jane, for a radio …
fiction ·
Writer parodies press releases for films. In a memo, Sy Pringle, of Out-To-Lunch Films, Inc., lists the company's new summer releases, all of them …