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 →
You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.
There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But... →
Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on... →
I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of... →
The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags - those little... →
'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring... →
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers'... →
I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a... →
I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that... →
I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be... →
When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a... →
There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word 'monetize' has to rank high among them. Also,'incentivize.'... →
There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom... →
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.