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T R UM P: N E V E R G I V E U P

yourself can happen even as a result of bad or negative knocks.
That’s how you turn problems and challenges into successes.

“BEST LETTER OF THE YEAR TO THE NEW YORK
TIMES BOOK REVIEW”
—New York Magazine

August 2005

To the Editor:
I can remember when Tina Brown was in charge of the New
Yorker magazine and a writer named Mark Singer interviewed
me. He was depressed. I was thinking, okay, expect the worst.
Not only was Tina Brown dragging the New Yorker to a new low,
this writer was drowning in his own misery—which could only
put me in a skeptical mood regarding the outcome of their com-
bined interest in me. Misery begets misery, and they were a per-
fect example of this.
Jeff MacGregor, the reviewer of Character Studies: Encounters
with the Curiously Obsessed—a collection of Mark Singer’s New
Yorker profiles—writes poorly. His painterly turn with nastur-
tiums sounds like a junior high school yearbook entry. Maybe
he and Mark Singer belong together. Some people cast shadows,
and other people choose to live in those shadows.
I’ve read John Updike, I’ve read Orhan Pamuk, I’ve read
Philip Roth. When Mark Singer enters their league, maybe I’ll
read one of his books. But it will be a long time—he was not
born with great writing ability. Until then, maybe he should
concentrate on finding his own “lonely component” and then
try to develop himself into a world class writer instead of hav-
ing to write about remarkable people who are clearly outside of
his realm.
I’ve been a bestselling author for close to twenty years.
Whether you like it or not, facts are facts. The highly respected
Joe Queenan of the New York Times Book Review mentioned in
his article of March 20, 2005, “Ghosts in the Machine,” that I

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