Inspired by a short, bizarre newspaper article, journalist Susan Orlean embarks on an amusing two-year journey to understand a passionate, yet somehow principled crook and one of his ephemeral obsessions--wild orchids. Her profile of John Laroche was the basis for the critically acclaimed film, ADAPTATION (2003), directed by Spike Jonze, and ...
Orlean brings her insight and powers of observation to these 20 profiles of a range of personalities that include designer Bill Blass, the cabdriver king of the Ashanti, and a high school basketball celebrity.
This selection of 25 essays, edited by Susan Orlean, contains work by Andrea Barrett ("The Sea of Information"), Kitty Burns Florey ("Sister Bernadette?s Barking Dog"), Jonathan Franzen ("The Comfort Zone"), David Masello ("My Friend Lodovico"), Oliver Sacks ("Speed"), and David Sedaris ("Old Faithful").
For people who love their dogs and love to cook, it may be time to toss out that boring old kibble and giving man's best friend the treats he or she deserves. (After all, they will never complain if something goes wrong.) ORCHID THIEF author Susan Orlean took dictation from her savvy spaniel Cooper Gillespie, as he sampled this assortment of tasty ...
Bestselling author and "New Yorker" staff writer Susan Orlean edits this years volume of the finest travel writing from the past year. Contributors include Ian Frazier, Ann Patchett, David Halberstam, Peter Hessler, and others.
Susan Orlean has made it her mission to share Saturday night with all kinds of people all over the country. She's danced with elderly polka experts in Maryland, hung out with a lounge band in an Oregon bar, and run with undergrads bussing between Wellesley and Harvard Squar e. She emerges with an astonishing perspective on what makes this night ...
Susan Orlean, author of the acclaimed THE ORCHID THIEF, collects her offbeat and entertaining essays on (loosely speaking) travel. Her kind of place includes a wild variety of destinations, including Paris, Cuba, the American Midwest (for the World Taxidermy Championship), Mt. Fuji, and George W. Bush's own Midland, Texas.
The market for books on botanical subjects is very strong, from volumes that reproduce antique drawings to books of contemporary botanical photography. "Flowers in Shadow" offers the best of both worlds in an innovative package. In the pages of this artful volume enclosed in a beautiful cloth case with a debossed image, photographer Zeva Oelbaum ...
Orlean brings her insight and powers of observation to these 20 profiles of a range of personalities that include designer Bill Blass, the cabdriver king of the Ashanti, and a high school basketball celebrity.
Susan Orlean's collection of profiles ranges from the well-known (Marky Mark) to the unknown (Colin Duffy, a typical American man, aged ten) to the formerly known (the cult sixties girl group the Shaggs). Orlean meets with Cristina Sanchez, Spain's first fully-qualified female matador, Silly Billy, New York's most successful children's clown, an ...
Inspired by a short, bizarre newspaper article, journalist Susan Orlean embarks on an amusing two-year journey to understand a passionate, yet somehow principled crook and one of his ephemeral obsessions--wild orchids. Her profile of John Laroche was the basis for the critically acclaimed film, ADAPTATION (2003), directed by Spike Jonze, and ...
Susan Orlean, author of the acclaimed THE ORCHID THIEF, collects her offbeat and entertaining essays on (loosely speaking) travel. Her kind of place includes a wild variety of destinations, including Paris, Cuba, the American Midwest (for the World Taxidermy Championship), Mt. Fuji, and George W. Bush's own Midland, Texas.
Susan Orlean, author of the acclaimed THE ORCHID THIEF, collects her offbeat and entertaining essays on (loosely speaking) travel. Her kind of place includes a wild variety of destinations, including Paris, Cuba, the American Midwest (for the World Taxidermy Championship), Mt. Fuji, and George W. Bush's own Midland, Texas.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: American Express Company
Date Published: 2008-01-01
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: American Express Company
Date Published: 2008
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: American Express Company
Date Published: 2008
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. "This is a book of extraordinary stories: tyales of courage, of compassion, or character. Stories about the pursuit of dreams and the joy of creative expression, about persverance and service to others. Stories of abiding loyalty-to family and friends, to deeply held values, to community, to country. Above all, they are stories about lives exceedingly well lived. They are your stories. " {Ken Chenault}. This book has 276 pages and is illustrated ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: softcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: (2004)
Description: The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of travel writings eventually re-titled My Kind of Place. Orlean is the acclaimed author of The Orchid Thief and The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, a collection of essays that, like John McPhee's, illuminate interesting and little-known aspects of the world. This volume, similarly, focuses on the author's travels to odd, interesting, or out-of-the-way places. Fine in wrappers, with new title label affixed to front cover but retaining the original ... read more
Edition: February Issue
Binding: Magazine Style
Publisher: The New Yorker Magazine
Date Published: 2006
Description: Near Fine. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Mailing label removed leaving light scar. A six page article on the nature of some displaced homing pigeons. read more
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