Remembering Mark Singer: The New Yorker Staff Writer Who Spent 52 Years Chronicling American Life
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Ian Frazier
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A tribute to Mark Singer, a staff writer for The New Yorker for 52 years, who died of cancer at age 75. The piece recounts his career trajectory from Talk of the Town pieces to humor, personal essays, and long reported stories, including his notable book "Funny Money" about a fraudster bank collapse. It also references his famous 1997 Profile of Donald Trump, where he famously found "nothing" where Trump's soul should have been.
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He started out writing pieces for The Talk of the Town, then moved on to humor, personal essays, and long reported stories, some of which were collected in books or became whole books themselves.
His 1985 book 'Funny Money,' a deadpan nonfiction comedy about the collapse of a fraudster bank in Oklahoma during the savings-and-loan crisis, was a best-seller.
In a 1997 Profile for the magazine, he looked for Donald Trump's soul. Where it should have been he found—nothing.
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