Susan Orlean's Books
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New Yorker, October 19, 2009
...newyorker.com by October 25th. Then leave it to our panel of judges, including New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean; Laura Porco, the director of Kindle Books, who brings her dog, Brutus, to work; and Karen Ngo, the writer and photographer behind...
HotelChatter, October 6, 2009
...Tags: Twitter / Hotel WiFi / ? All Tags Earlier today, New Yorker writer and novelist Susan Orlean re-tweeted a very profound statement made by another Twitterer, Dadigan with a resounding 'YES!': Shouldn't they've amended the constitution to make free...
Rotten Tomatoes, September 29, 2009
...both an intriguing examination of the artistic process and a compelling erotic experience. 72% Fresh Charlie Kaufman and Susan Orlean in Adaptation In Hollywood, it's difficult to find anyone more 'meta' than Charlie Kaufman, and none of his work...
High Country News, September 17, 2009
...voices that I have relied on for company during long nights under wide skies. The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean, 1998. Although it's filled with damp heat and alligators, this is no nature book. (In my experience, most nature-writing books are not the...
Smithsonian Magazine, September 15, 2009
...returns to Morocco to explore the animal's central role in the life of this desert kingdom By Susan Orlean On the western coast, far from bustling Tokyo, tradition can be found in contemplative gardens, quiet inns and old temples By Francine Prose A Sikh...
Suite101.com, August 7, 2009
...Home » Reading & Literature » American Fiction » Susan Orlean ? The Maui Surfer Girls The Girls Represent How Carefree and Untroubled Life Can Truly Be © John Hansen Narrator reveals and contrasts the differing characters in hope of...
Examiner.com, July 11, 2009
...book is called 'adaptation,' was there ever a movie with that title? Yes. Adaptation (2002) is based on Susan Orlean's book, The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession. The movie is directed by Spike Jonze with the screenplay adapted by...
Star-Telegram, June 8, 2009
...offering $3,000 first prizes in three categories.) The first Mayborn Conference featured Time editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstein and Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief. 'I had worked at The Wall Street Journal, so I had a large group of people I...
Kauai Garden Island News, May 6, 2009
...Arthur Whistler, a very handy photographic guide to more than 450 tropical garden plants. The Orchid Thief By Susan Orlean 635.9344 Or Wealthy Victorian orchid fanatics coined the term orchidelirium to describe their obsession with the exotic flower. The...
Erie Times-News, April 19, 2009
...four pages of blurbs from famous fans. They range from Roy Blount Jr. to Ursula K. Leguin, from Susan Orlean ('Elegant, droll and perfectly proportioned, and like your favorite aunt, strict but affectionate') to Jonathan Lethem ('Eschew surplusage! A...
All Things Digital, April 14, 2009
...but didn?t start building steam until Sunday afternoon, when I noticed mild-mannered types like New Yorker writer Susan Orlean railing about Amazon on Twitter. And it?s still going. As I type this, after 10 p.m. Eastern on Sunday night, the...
All Things Digital, April 13, 2009
...but didn?t start building steam until Sunday afternoon, when I noticed mild-mannered types like New Yorker writer Susan Orlean railing about Amazon on Twitter. And it?s still going. As I type this, after 10 p.m. Eastern on Sunday night, the...
Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2009
...This time, the magazine has asked people you've heard of ? Sarah Vowell, Chuck D, David Simon, Susan Orlean, Patton Oswalt, Tom Robbins, Dave Eggers, Andy Samberg, Miranda July, Jonathan Lethem, Chuck Klosterman, Andrew Bird and more ? for their...
Globe and Mail, March 28, 2009
...short stories on Twitter ( in The Globe and Mail this week); Ruth Reichl, the editor of Gourmet, and Susan Orlean, the New Yorker writer and author of The Orchid Thief, both Twitter elegantly. Someone pretending to be Christopher Walken - Twitter has...
EMedia Wire, February 16, 2009
...Anniversary Edition Commemorates Strunk & White's Classic Style Guide New York, NY (PRWEB) February 16, 2009 -- Fifty years after first making its mark as the definitive guide to writing style and usage, Strunk and White's The Elements of Style is now...
Winston-Salem Journal, December 28, 2008
...that might be on your resolution list. Good luck! Resolution: A harder work ethic. LAZY LITTLE LOAFERS. By Susan Orlean. Abrams. Ages 4-7. $16.95. OK, babies! The little girl in Lazy Little Loafers has you figured out. 'Why don't any babies work? After...
New Yorker, December 15, 2008
...$25). Nothing is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn, by Alice Mattison (Harper Perennial; $14.95). Lazy Little Loafers, by Susan Orlean (Abrams; $16.95). Dictation, by Cynthia Ozick (Houghton Mifflin; $24). Fine Just the Way It Is, by Annie Proulx (Scribner;...
Newsday, December 7, 2008
...Lazy Little Loafers' is an amusing present for a family where older children are welcoming a new baby. Susan Orlean's picture book examines the question of why babies get away with lounging and letting everyone else do all the work. It's a great family...
EMedia Wire, December 4, 2008
...New Jersey); Ellery Washington (New Mexico); Jonathan Franzen (New York); Randall Kenan (North Carolina); Louise Erdrich (North Dakota); Susan Orlean (Ohio); S.E. Hinton (Oklahoma); Joe Sacco (Oregon); Andrea Lee (Pennsylvania); Jhumpa Lahiri (Rhode...
HotelChatter -, October 5, 2009
... Earlier today, New Yorker writer and novelist Susan Orlean re-tweeted a very profound statement made by another Twitterer, Dadigan with a resounding "YES!": Shouldn't they've amended the constitution to make free wifi a basic human right?...
Isak, September 29, 2009
...on the couch in the common room (ahem) and found a brand-new copy of The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean next to me. I had been talking about wanting to read it that week and, it seems, the book fairy heard me. But at the same time: I have...
A Blog Around The Clock, September 27, 2009
...article on pet chickens by @susanorlean in 9/28 New Yorker: The It Bird and Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean Swinging Chicken Ritual Divides Orthodox Jews This is an interesting list, by @Scobleizer, of people on Twitter you may be interested in...
ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed, September 27, 2009
...article on pet chickens by @susanorlean in 9/28 New Yorker: The It Bird and Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean Swinging Chicken Ritual Divides Orthodox Jews This is an interesting list, by @Scobleizer, of people on Twitter you may be interested in...
Koreanish, September 22, 2009
...one is uninhabitable. Just…run some numbers. I know you can do this. Thanks, Alex * * * Dear Susan Orlean, We would be really sad. But I know the Swedish gnomes would offer a magnificent forest burial. Yours, Alex * * * Dear FDA, While...
The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper: Slog, September 1, 2009
...with newly unmasked former New York Times restaurant reviewer Frank Bruni —his new memoir is reviewed by Susan Orlean here September 14: Lark with Langdon Cook , local forager and author of The Fat of the Land September 20: Serafina with cookbook...
Exile on Ninth Street, August 19, 2009
...and genuinely bizarre movie Adaptation as a guide, adapting any book to the screen — in this case Susan Orlean’s nonfiction book The Orchid Thief — is a harrowing, freaky ride. Screenwriters must condense hundreds of pages into a visual experience...
Sophisticated Dorkiness, June 16, 2009
...of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean — I’m actually doing this one as a co-review with Nicole from Linus’s Blanket , so any questions you ask will probably get...
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk, June 12, 2009
...late, and just now that has yielded two good stories: on Bret Easton Ellis, 140-character reviewer ; and on Susan Orlean, accidental starter of fights . Benjamin Kunkel of n+1 considers the effect of the internet on literary sensibility – specifically,...
Bloggasm, May 17, 2009
...an entire 600-worth guest post defending the labyrinthine, secretive modus operandi of the New Yorker institution. What drew Susan Orlean — staff writer since 1986 and author of the excellent The Orchid Thief — into the welcoming arms of the media...
PhiloBiblos, May 17, 2009
...take his own suggestion, and the rest, as they say, is history. This book is very similar to Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief or Andrew Blechman's Pigeons , but with butterflies. Smugglers, thieves, collectors, scientists, detectives, breeders and artists...
Bloggasm, May 12, 2009
...Just came across this tweet from Susan Orlean, in which she hints that she might counter the account of Dan Baum, who just finished tweeting the story of his firing from The New Yorker. ShareThis...
Houseplants, April 7, 2009
...The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean Ballantine Books (2000) Orchidelirium is the name the Victorians gave to the flower madness that is for botanical collectors the equivalent of gold fever. Wealthy orchid fanatics of...
Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes, April 3, 2009
...All that’s missing is the superfluous words “A Novel” stamped on the front. More details at GalleyCat. Susan Orlean recently asked whether book blurbs actually drive sales . All I know of Greg Schwipps ‘ writing is an OK flash-fiction thing he...
MetaFilter, March 13, 2009
...2008 issue of The New York Times . Full text online here . "The American Male at Age 10" by Susan Orlean, from The New Kings of Nonfiction , edited by Ira Glass from Liberation by Brian Slattery “All Seated on the Ground” by Connie Willis. Full...
The Intersection, March 9, 2009
...is hard to know whether women are better at telling stories than propagating ideas (I'm thinking of Susan Orlean, Mary Roach, Karen Abbott), or whether the intellectual audacity required to sell our hypotheses about the world simply isn't in our genetic...
simone, February 7, 2009
...Calvin Trillin investigates whether people can actually taste the difference between red wine and white. We journey with Susan Orlean as she distills the essence of Cuba in the story of a single restaurant, and with Judith Thurman as she investigates the...
esther, January 12, 2009
...stories that range from high action to high comedy. Whether it’s Jonathan Raban sailing the open sea, Susan Orlean celebrating Spain’s first female bullfighter, or Jim Harrison taking the wheel on a cross-country road trip, each piece can be...
harrison, January 10, 2009
...Calvin Trillin investigates whether people can actually taste the difference between red wine and white. We journey with Susan Orlean as she distills the essence of Cuba in the story of a single restaurant, and with Judith Thurman as she investigates the...
KinoSport, December 27, 2008
...the origins of names like Fort Greene, Washington Heights, and most of the streets in Soho. Susan Orlean - The Orchid Thief Ballantine, 2000 The Orchid Thief is home to John Leroche, a beaten-up mess of a man with a shocking passion for flowers (and...
