Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean
Susan Orleanis an American journalist and author. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to many magazines including Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth31 October 1955
CountryUnited States of America
country coffee people
We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.
writing long different
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
phones cells long
Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.
dog wall smart
Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.
fall sky snow
A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.
girl dream sleep
I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I'm too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.
friendship phones my-best-friend
One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.
real school names
Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.
children winter ohio
I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.
girlfriend children boys
Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.
self imagine hard
It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.
thinking phones use
I've tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really good.
sports football school
I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
new-york writing class
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.