Red Sox and Bluefish and Other Things That Make New England New England

by Susan Orlean, Hal Mayforth (Illustrator)

Provides a humorous view of aspects of New England life such as baked beans, candlepins, Filene's Basement, preppies, and Harvard Square

Genres: Essays, Nonfiction

94 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

I'm the product of a happy and uneventful childhood in the suburbs of Cleveland, followed by a happy and pretty eventful four years as a student at University of Michigan. From there, I wandered to the West Coast, landing in Portland, Oregon, where I managed (somehow) to get a job as a writer. This had been my dream, of course, but I had no experience and no credentials. What I did have, in spades, was an abiding passion for storytelling and sentence-making. I fell in love with the experience of writing, and I've never stopped. From Portland, I moved to Boston, where I wrote for the Phoenix and the Globe, and then to New York, where I began writing for magazines, and, in 1987, published my first piece in The New Yorker. I've been a staff writer there since 1992.

Reviews

[Elizabeth Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essential reading for living in Boston!

[Danielle · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's old (1987) but still will make you smile as a local

I miss Filenes Basement

[Lorraine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Amusing but somewhat dated humor

[David Alexander · Rating 5 out of 5]

You have to live in New England to fully appreciate the subtle humor here.