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Big Story/Little Story: A Reading and Conversation with Mark Singer

Mark Singer

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Format: Book Reading followed by Q&A

Length: 88 minutes

Mark Singer reads from his new book Character Studies: Encounters with the Curiously Obsessed (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), a collection of nine profiles, from Donald Trump to card illusionist Ricky Jay. Singer has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1974, and is the author of five books, including Funny Money (Knopf, 1985) and Somewhere in America: Under the Radar with Chicken Warriors, Left-Wing Patriots, Angry Nudists, and Others (Houghton Mifflin, 2004).

Singer is introduced by Michael Smyer, dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

Presenter(s): Mark Singer

Date: April 10, 2006

Location: Fulton 310

Sponsor(s): Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; English Department; Communication Department

URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/singer/

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