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Susan Orlean
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The Utah mayor who recently confessed that he wrote happy news stories about his town using a pseudonym, often quoting himself, was living a writer's dream. I haven't read his stories, but I like to think he didn't hold back at all. Instead of just quoting himself, I'm hoping he went all out, lavishing praise on himself: "According to the young, handsome mayor of West Valley City…" or maybe "A...
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The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
— published 1998 — 16 editions |
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
— published 2011 — 16 editions |
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The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People
— published 2001 — 9 editions |
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My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
— published 2004 — 11 editions |
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The Best American Essays 2005
by Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author) , Robert Atwan — published 2005 — 2 editions |
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The Best American Travel Writing 2007
by Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author) , Jason Wilson — published 2007 — 2 editions |
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Saturday Night
— published 1990 — 5 editions |
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Lazy Little Loafers
by Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author), G. Brian Karas , G Brian Karas — published 2008 |
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Animalish
— published 2011 — 3 editions |
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Red Sox and Bluefish and Other Things That Make New England New England
by Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author), Hal Mayforth — published 1987 |
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“The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.”
― Susan Orlean
― Susan Orlean
“I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.”
― Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
― Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
“I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.”
― Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
― Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
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