Favorite Books
The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner); Ghost Road (Pat Barker); anything by James Joyce
What I'm Reading
"The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright; "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" by Ron Hansen
Favorite Authors
William Faulkner, Pat Barker, James Joyce, Joan Didion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Mitchell, A.L. Liebling
Influences
Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fiztgerald, Joseph Mitchell, A.J. Liebling, the New Yorker's last eighty years
About Susan
What can I tell you? I am the product of a happy and relatively uneventful childhood in Cleveland, Ohio (back when the Indians were still a lousy team, and before they became a really good team and then again became a somewhat lousy team, although I have hope...
Causes Susan Orlean Supports
Human Rights Watch
Nature Conservancy
Susan’s Favorite Books
The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner); Ghost Road (Pat Barker); anything by James Joyce