Susan Orlean (born October 31, 1955) is an American journalist. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside. Read full biography of Susan Orlean →
When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became... →
I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his... →
I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff... →
When it comes to consumer electronics, I'm a big fat sucker, because even though I know you should never, ever buy anything until the second... →
You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there with them, and many hours of... →
It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by people-watchers like me... →
Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch... →
We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up... →
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment.
I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on one rather than the other.
I've tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really... →
Susan Orlean (born October 31, 1955) is an American journalist. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside.