Books by Susan Orlean

New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois-and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality. With Orlean as guide, lucky readers partake in all manner of armchair activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and experience a hike most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with Cuba's Little Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a country where baseball and politics are inextricably intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone's favorite whale as he tries to make it on his own; stay awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled it's known as "Horror High"; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world. Vivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orlean's writings for The New Yorker have delighted readers for over a decade. My Kind of Place is an inimitable treat by one of America's premier literary journalists.

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Orlean meets with Cristina Sanchez, Spain's first fully-qualified female matador, Silly Billy, New York's most successful children's clown, an African king who is a New York taxi-driver, and a champion show dog called Biff, who from a certain angle looks like President Clinton.

'He believed the dog was immortal...' So begins the sweeping story of Rin Tin Tin: the story of a canine superstar and of American popular culture, spanning nearly a century and many human lives, told in the inimitable style of Susan Orlean, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief.

Fascinated both by Laroche and the world she uncovered of orchid collectors and growers, she stayed on, to write this magical exploration of obsession and the strange world both of the orchid obsessives and of Florida, that haunting and weird 'debatable land' of swamps and condos, retirement communities and real-estate scams.

RIN TIN TIN er den fantastiske historie om en forladt hundehvalp, der blev til filmstjerne og internationalt ikon. Lee Duncan, en ung amerikansk soldat, bringer hvalpen hjem fra 1. verdenskrigs franske slagmarker og gør ham til en stjerne i Hollywood. I løbet af ti år spiller Rin Tin Tin hovedrollen i 23 filmhit, redder Warner Brothers fra en truende fallit og bliver verdens mest berømte filmhund.Susan Orlean fortæller gennem Rin Tin Tins historie også om det utrolige bånd, der eksisterer mellem mennesker og dyr, og som har været med til at forvandle hunden fra arbejdsdyr på gårdene til elskede familiemedlemmer. Og samtidig giver bogen et fascinerende indblik i 90 års amerikansk underholdningshistorie og trækker trådene op til nutiden og hundenes rolle i blandt andet moderne krig.