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Hello there.
Welcome to susanorlean.com. I'm an author, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and a devoted dog owner. I've written a bunch of books, which are featured here, and an even bigger bunch of magazine articles, some of which I've posted here. I've inspired a movie -- Adaptation -- so there's information about that, and I try to get out and about whenever I can, so I've got a list of my travels and upcoming appearances. Keep checking back -- I'll be adding more all the time!Recent Articles  The other day, my Welsh springer spaniel, Cooper, gave me a manicure. He doesn't give the world's best manicure -- for that you'd have to go to that Korean joint, Nuclear Nails, or whatever it's called, on Broadway -- but he really tries. He can tell whether I'm in the mood...
I want to make a confession: I am passionately and uncontrollably in love with Dick Cheney. Lynne, I'm sorry; if I could help it I would. It's just something about him--the strength, the silence, the frank and unabashed baldness, the mystery, the unknowability, the man, the...
On January 27, 1999, a tiger went walking through the town of Jackson, New Jersey. According to the zoology guidebook Wild Cats, a tiger's natural requirements are "some form of dense vegetative cover, sufficient large ungulate prey, and access to water". By those measures...
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 My new book, My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere, due out October 2, is a collection of stories that are primarily about places and situations. I guess you would call them travel stories, even thought they don't really fit the traditional "genre" description of travel pieces. Adaptation is out on DVD. The Orchid Thief is always available at a bookstore near you. Blue Crush is out on DVD. You can find the story Blue Crush is based on in The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup (buy at Amazon). Books  The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup. This is a collection of my favorite profile pieces, most of which were first published in the New Yorker...  The Orchid Thief. This is partially the story of John Laroche, an eccentric plant dealer who had been arrested for poaching rare orchids... More books... |
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