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.

Speaker: Mark Singer

Date: April 10, 2006

Length: 1:28:20