Susan Orlean's Writings
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Short Story
Oct.28.2011
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion
(Originally posted at The Library of America's Story of the Week.)
This past week The Library of America published its latest anthology, The 50 Funniest Writers, edited by Andy Borowitz. Previously on Story of the Week we presented one of the book’s selections, “The Ransom of Red Chief,” which was written during the first decade of the twentieth century; this...
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Article
Dec.12.2010
The New Yorker
When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror. Who in their right mind would allow me-ignorant of all childcare matters, an indifferent babysitter in my teen-age years, a youngest child who had never changed a...
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Article
Jun.24.2010
The New Yorker
This is a true story:
My first book was acquired by two people I will call Editor A and Editor B, who ran a small imprint at a big publishing house. We had a great lunch to celebrate. A few months later, Editor A left book publishing to become a newspaper writer. Editor B became my primary editor. She and I had a nice lunch to talk about my book.
A few...
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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