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Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean
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Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award–winning film Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in upstate New York and may be reached at SusanOrlean.com and Twitter.com/SusanOrlean.

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Throw Me a Bone will be released on June 15, 2010 in
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Oman Tribune, May 16, 2013
...our leading journalists - old-media types, of course - have joined the long procession: The New Yorker’s Susan Orlean and the Times’ Jill Abramson have lately gone into the doghouse, and so has New York Magazine’s executive editor John Homans. ...
Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2013
...and Angela Bassett have performed stories over the years by such acclaimed authors as Raymond Carver, Ian Frazier, Susan Orlean and James Salter. "Prose fiction is neutral in effect but the spoken word is fraught with meaning," Oates wrote in an email,...
TeleRead, May 3, 2013
...Amazon “has leapt firmly into that void…” They’ve published Kindle Singles by best-selling authors like Stephen King, Susan Orlean, and Lee Child, and this article intrigued me for two reasons. First, I hadn’t thought about how “Kindle...
Boston Herald, May 2, 2013
...James Atlas, Charlie Pierce and Lesley Visser, as well as previously published pieces by John Updike, George Plimpton, Susan Orlean, Robert Pinsky and others. All proceeds from the book will be donated to the One Fund Boston to benefit victims of the...
Business Wire, May 2, 2013
...Lesley Visser, among many others, as well as previously published pieces by writers including John Updike, George Plimpton, Susan Orlean, and Robert Pinsky. All proceeds from the book will be donated to The One Fund - Boston to benefit victims of the...
Scottrade, May 2, 2013
...Lesley Visser, among many others, as well as previously published pieces by writers including John Updike, George Plimpton, Susan Orlean, and Robert Pinsky. All proceeds from the book will be donated to The One Fund - Boston to benefit victims of the...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 1, 2013
...The in-house publishing brand gives original works a digital showplace. Author Susan Orlean's newest project is a combination of her lifelong obsession with animals and her more recent side job as a technology junkie: "Animalish," will be published...
World News Network, May 10, 2013
...same year, she began work on Spike Jonze's comedy-drama Adaptation (2002), in which she portrayed real-life journalist Susan Orlean. Lauded by critics and viewers alike,[49] the film won Streep her fourth Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actress...
Boston Herald, May 6, 2013
...attorney Frank Cimler. That essays about Boston from a pack of local writers, including John Updike, George Plimpton, Susan Orlean, Robert Pinsky, Lesley Visser, Chip McGrath and more will be included in a new anthology. “Our Boston: Writers...
Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2013
...and Angela Bassett have performed stories over the years by such acclaimed authors as Raymond Carver, Ian Frazier, Susan Orlean and James Salter. "Prose fiction is neutral in effect but the spoken word is fraught with meaning," Oates wrote in an email,...
TeleRead, May 3, 2013
...Amazon “has leapt firmly into that void…” They’ve published Kindle Singles by best-selling authors like Stephen King, Susan Orlean, and Lee Child, and this article intrigued me for two reasons. First, I hadn’t thought about how “Kindle...
TMC Net, May 2, 2013
...James Atlas, Charlie Pierce and Lesley Visser, as well as previously published pieces by John Updike, George Plimpton, Susan Orlean, Robert Pinsky and others. All proceeds from the book will be donated to the One Fund Boston to benefit victims of the...
Individual.com, May 2, 2013
...James Atlas, Charlie Pierce and Lesley Visser, as well as previously published pieces by John Updike, George Plimpton, Susan Orlean, Robert Pinsky and others. All proceeds from the book will be donated to the One Fund Boston to benefit victims of the...
Boston Herald, May 2, 2013
...James Atlas, Charlie Pierce and Lesley Visser, as well as previously published pieces by John Updike, George Plimpton, Susan Orlean, Robert Pinsky and others. All proceeds from the book will be donated to the One Fund Boston to benefit victims of the...