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Mr. Personality : profiles and talk pieces from the New Yorker / Mark Singer.
LIBRA - Special F128.52 .S54 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Singer, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- Manners and customs.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--Anecdotes.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Biography--Anecdotes.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Anecdotes.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 410 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Mariner Books edition.
- Other Title:
- Mister Personality
- New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Mariner Books, 2005.
- Summary:
- A superb collection, 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 witty and offbeat 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.
- Contents:
- Talk Pieces
- Yabba-Yabba, Doodle-Doodle
- With Leo
- Jerome's Bus
- Mr. Personality
- Approachable
- The Rooster
- Not Strictly All Business
- Rafting-Up
- No Fooling Around
- Violations
- Destiny
- The Gorilla
- Melnikoff's
- Screened
- Luxury
- Zipper Man
- Idea
- Pigeon Mumblers
- Tomato Bob
- Effects
- Avenue P
- Museum
- Positions Available
- Sharp
- King of All Kings
- Profiles
- Benjamin Shine: Court Buff
- Sam Cohn: Professional Doppelganger
- Goodman Ace: Words Fool Me
- Brennan Brothers: Supers
- Rubin Levine: Winging It
- Gordon Manning: The Initiator
- Graham Arader: Wall Power
- Errol Morris: Predilections.
- ISBN:
- 0618197265
- 9780618197262
- OCLC:
- 60323335
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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