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	Susan Orlean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Susan Orlean is an American journalist whose feature writing drolly but affectionately considers "softer" subjects than some of those covered by her colleagues.
		Orlean is the author of several books, including The Orchid Thief, a profile of Florida orchid grower, breeder, and collector John Laroche.
		Orlean (portrayed by Meryl Streep) was, in effect, made into a fictional character; the movie portrayed her as becoming Laroche's lover and partner in a drug smuggling operation, in which orchids were ground into a cocaine-like substance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Susan_Orlean (219 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - THE ORCHID THIEF by Susan Orlean
		In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti.
		Susan Orlean resists the temptation to feel possessed by the orchids but she is willing to undergo great trials in order to satisfy her passion for reporting.
		Orlean seems fascinated by the story of Darwin and the study of the orchid with the eighteen inch nectary and the moth with the eighteen inch proboscis to feed on it: the idea that two totally differentlife forms evolved specifically to serve each other; that neither could have existed without the other.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/orchid_thief.asp (982 words)

	BookPage Interview January 2001: Susan Orlean
		Sometimes peripherally, sometimes directly, Orlean looks at race, class and gender, at trends as temporary as Tiffany, the disposable pop singer whose career was man-made -- literally -- by her manager and at fads like the Steve Urkel doll, a toy based on a television character.
		Orlean's presence is always gently felt in these stories, and there are long stretches of text in which she is absent.
		For Orlean, in a sense, the movie will complete a full-circle, the spin of which seems to have left her feeling a little dizzy.
	www.bookpage.com /0101bp/susan_orlean.html (1283 words)

	Susan Orlean delivers 2001 Johnston Lecture
		Orlean is well known for her ability to find stories in often- overlooked subcultures—surfer girls, the dog show world, and the average 10-year-old boy, jus tfor starters—as well as for her signature writing style.
		Orlean credited much of her current view of the reasons for writing and the inherent responsibilities to her membership in “celebrity writers anonymous.” Early in her career, she found failings with writing about the famous and celebrated.
		Susan Orlean’s latest book, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters With Extraordinary People, is a collection of previously published profiles, most of which originally appeared in The New Yorker.
	flash.uoregon.edu /S01/orlean.html (731 words)

	'My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere' by Susan Orlean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Susan Orlean admits on the second page of her new book that discovering the kinds of stories she has collected here is a kind of "addiction," a compulsion from which she doesn't expect ever to be entirely free.
		Orlean's critique of Burgess -- and that of most of the characters in this book -- is rendered in bold strokes, yet with enough subtlety and distance so as not to seem offensive.
		Orlean declines to lend her apartment to the friend of a friend while she's away; that this other person turns out to be Tina Turner gives rise to a speculative meditation on how the diva might have gotten along amid Orlean's size 2 stuff.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04305/403827.stm (559 words)

	Susan Orlean uses human stories to evoke a place By PEGGY TOWNSEND SENTINEL STAFF WRITER When you talk to Susan Orlean ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Orlean says she chose them because there were the stories she "hit out of the park," the ones that were a combination of good writing and catching the heart of something so you knew what a place was really like.
		Orlean eventually went to a hypnotist who helped cure her of her phobia, which turned out to be a good thing when she traveled to Bhutan, a tiny country nestled in the Himalayas which requires daredevil pilots to swoop their planes into the airport like eagles landing in treetop nests.
		Orlean is not quite so willing to divulge the amount she was given for the book, which was reported by some sources to be $1.2 million.
	www.santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2004/October/03/style/stories/01style.htm (1205 words)

	Education Update - Lewis Frumkes, Director, Marymount Manhattan College Author Series Hosts Susan Orlean
		Orlean, with knowing, affable charm, managed to answer and not answer inevitable questions about the autobiographical elements in the movie version of her best-selling book.
		Orlean said she was often asked when she knew she was a writer.
		Orlean decided after one last celebrity interview that she had had it parceling out artifice, writing the 20-minute PR piece.
	www.educationupdate.com /archives/2003/feb03/issue/tech_frumkes.html (604 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Susan Orlean
		Orlean is a russet-haired, full-lipped beauty, and in the picture she's staring dead-on at the camera with her arms folded, looking amused and flinty.
		The rest of the book chronicles her orchid education, her own hunt for the elusive ghost orchid in the hot, slimy Fakahatchee, the history of the Seminoles and the Florida wilderness, and her increasing bafflement with orchid fever and those stricken with it.
		It's as if Orlean, setting out to record the events around this trial, finds herself slowly pulled into a world where slight madness prevails, until after a while she is taken hostage too--not by orchids, enchanting as they are, but by an amazed awareness of a whole different way of living.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.04.99/orlean-9909.html (676 words)

	MetroActive Books \| Susan Orlean
		The rest of the book chronicles her orchid education, her own hunt for the elusive ghost orchid in the slimy Fakahatchee, the history of the Seminoles, and her increasing bafflement with orchid fever and those stricken with it.
		Orlean, setting out to record the events around this trial, finds herself slowly pulled into a world where slight madness prevails, until she is taken hostage too--not by orchids, enchanting as they are, but by an amazed awareness of a different way of living.
		Between the unearthly landscape, the eccentric orchid growers, and the objects of their desire, Orlean has forged a fascinating adventure inlaid with an oblique commentary on the sterility of mainstream American life.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/01.06.00/orlean-0001.html (692 words)

	Amazon.com: The Orchid Thief : A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle): Books: Susan Orlean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Orlean takes us through lessons in history, evolution, geology and botany - subjects which could be incredibly dry in someone else's hands - and connects them neatly with her incredible descriptions of current orchid mania - the characters, the controversies, and the competition.
		Orlean injects her own experiences and thoughts into the story with a complete rejection of false objectivity; she's there, she's experiencing this, and the story is as much about her own voyage as anyone else's.
		Orlean tells the story of John Laroche, an unorthodox conman and orchid enthusiast and follows him through the wild Florida swamplands and a trial as he helps Orlean discover the power of the orchid.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/044900371X?v=glance (2185 words)

	Author Susan Orlean visits Sept. 25
		Susan Orlean, author of the New York Times bestseller “The Orchid Thief”; and staff writer for The New Yorker, will talk about her work Thursday, Sept. 25, 2003, at 5:30 p.m.
		Orlean has written several books, including “The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Ordinary People;” “Saturday Night,” a journal of essays which chronicle the Saturday nights she spent in communities across the country; and “The Orchid Thief,”; a narrative about orchid poachers in Florida.
		Orlean is also working on her fifth book, “The Lady and the Tigers,” about wild animals in the suburbs and planning another anthology of magazine pieces.
	unh.edu /news/campusjournal/archive/2003/september/091903orlean.html (249 words)

	Susan Orlean - Adaptation
		Orlean said that its easy for subjects to fall for writers who are doing a story on them, because as a writer you give your subjects a great deal of attention, and they often respond to someone so interested in their lives.
		Susan Orlean did shoot a supermarket scene with Nicolas Cage, but it was cut from the final edit of the film.
		On February 5, 1999, Susan Orlean sat down with D.C. area radio talk show host Diane Rehm to discuss her, at the time, new book, The Orchid Thief.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /reelfaces/adaptation.php (775 words)

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		Susan Orlean wasn't so desperate 13 years later when The New Yorker hired her as a staff writer.
		But Orlean makes up for any self-indulgence with her generous eye for detail and the skill to convey it in words.
		Orlean will obviously do anything to get her story, as "Figures in a Mall," her profile of Tonya Harding, proves.
	www.wweek.com /html2/words040401.html (754 words)

	Salon.com People \| Susan Orlean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Orlean carefully chooses the kind of subject who doesn't seem carefully chosen; she is paid to investigate the ordinary things our own lives are too short to look into.
		Orlean makes no impression in the first 10 minutes you're with her.
		Orlean is the kind of writer who always "desperately, desperately" wanted to be one.
	archive.salon.com /people/conv/2001/02/26/orlean (867 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession - Susan Orlean - Paperback
		The orchid thief in Susan Orlean's true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti.
		New Yorker writer Susan Orlean was so fascinated by Laroche -- "the most moral, amoral man I've ever met," she writes -- that she followed him through the swamps and into the eccentric world of Florida's most obsessed plant collectors, a subculture of aristocrats, enthusiasts, and smugglers whose passion for plants is all-consuming.
		Orlean's prose is always lucid, lyrical, and deceptively comfortable, but with The Orchid Thief, she's in danger of launching a national epidemic of orchid mania.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=044900371X&itm=2 (2138 words)

	Amazon.com: My Kind of Place : Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere: Books: Susan Orlean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Susan Orlean's third collection of essays includes thirty pieces that were previously published, most of them in The New Yorker, between 1990 and 2003.
		Orlean divides her book into three sections: "Here" includes essays set in the United States; those set abroad--from Cuba to Hungary to Thailand--are included in "There"; and "Elsewhere" is a hodgepodge of mostly short (some as brief as two pages), mostly whimsical essays set in any number of places.
		Orlean's travels outside the States were also good, just not quite as interesting as when she explores the weirdness that exists in our own back yard.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679462937?v=glance (1989 words)

	The New Yorker staff writer, Susan Orlean, reads at UAlbany
		A former contributor and now staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992, Susan Orlean has written more than fifty "Talk of the Town" pieces, as well as "Profiles and Reporter at Large" articles, and is currently writing a series of American popular culture columns, called Popular Chronicles.
		Orlean was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and also at Vogue, where she wrote on numerous figures in both the music and fashion industries.
		Orlean received her B.A. with honors from the University of Michigan in 1976.
	www.albany.edu /main/features/2003/12-03/1orlean/orlean.htm (312 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Susan Orlean (2000)
		Susan Orlean is obsessed, just not about orchids.
		Orlean: Then to go off from the Seminoles to talk about Chief Billy killing the panther - that law is what brought Laroche to the Seminoles in the first place, and subsequently brought them together into the swamp.
		Orlean: I'd done a column for the Globe, and it was more or less the day I quit to work on my first book [Saturday Night] that Faber & Faber called me and asked about collecting my columns into a book.
	www.powells.com /authors/orlean.html (2371 words)

	The New New Journalism \| By Robert S. Boynton
		New Yorker writer Susan Orlean is known for her quirky stories about "ordinary" people who are not normally in the public eye or consciousness, but in whose very ordinariness Orlean finds something extraordinary.
		Susan Orlean was born on October 31, 1955, in Cleveland, Ohio.
		Orlean got hooked on nonfiction when, as a young girl, she began reading "slice of life" stories about what it was like to be a country doctor or policeman in Life magazine.
	www.newnewjournalism.com /bio.php?last_name=orlean (1686 words)

	Susan Orlean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Susan Orlean has 1 in-development credit available on IMDbPro.com.
		Susan Orlean as a "character&quo t; in the film Adaptation
		Find where Susan Orlean is credited alongside another name
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0650036 (112 words)

	So they have all you envy, and more - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Within hours, Susan Orlean began acquiring even more real estate than her 55 acres in Columbia County, taking up residence in that part of my brain reserved for those I hold in equal parts esteem and contempt.
		Please understand: I adore Susan Orlean and begrudge her nothing, not the New Yorker gig, the books, the close-up-ready face.
		Susan Orlean may be the most idolspicable person in my life, but there have been others: The college classmate, tall and gorgeous enough to be a supermodel, whose documentary was nominated for an Oscar.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2006/Mar/13/il/FP603130318.html (1196 words)

	the pathetic caverns - books by author - Susan Orlean
		One issue was that the quotes I earmarked weren't very representational; they were more flowery than the bulk of Orlean's clear, lean, journalistic style, which is so transparent that it nearly vanishes when examined closely.
		At some point after Kaufman realized how essentially unfilmable the book is, he arrived at an approach which allows him to have most of his cake and eat it too: instead of delivering a script adapting of the book, he delivered a script about the impossibility of adapting the book.
		are rewarded in the new paperback edition by two new short pieces, one in which Orlean interviews herself about Adaptation, and an author's afterword in which she addresses some of the concerns that have been raised about the book.
	www.pathetic-caverns.com /books/o/susan_orlean.html (1132 words)

	The Narrative Journal: Following Susan Orlean’s Earlier Advice That You Might Choose to Describe a Single Physical ...
		Her lips are far more red even than her hair, and they are caricatured, inflated, enough to serve as arched eyebrow and wink, toss of tresses, shrug, sway, foot-tap.
		Susan Orlean’s lips are twisted into a comma at one corner, at both corners then, and mark an apologetic quote, the wry shared words that become now a mutual friend.
		Susan Orlean smiles a Hollywood projector but not mere incisors, remember, a smile happens everyplace else, cheek, chin, the delta of experience that flows from a blue pupil lateral to her temple.
	poynter.blogs.com /narrative/2003/12/following_susan.html (438 words)

	Printed Matter -- Susan Orlean -- Page
		Orlean is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and her book was first published two years ago.
		Orlean only heard from Laroche once after her book was published ("I read it," was about all he had to say) but thought that he was going to come to one of her early book readings in Miami.
		Orlean said she is back at work at The New Yorker, taking time out only for her book tour.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /go/gizmo/2000/orlean.html (742 words)

	James Sanford: Features: Susan Orlean
		But when writer Susan Orlean first read the screenplay of "Adaptation" -- based partially on her experiences writing the 1998 best seller "The Orchid Thief" -- she was far from flattered.
		Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman had portrayed Orlean as a depressed staff writer at The New Yorker who goes to Florida on a research trip and turns into a full-blown freak, sleeping with one of her sources, plotting murders, and becoming addicted to snorting orchid dust.
		But Orlean also did quite a bit of first-hand research, including accompanying Laroche into the 80,000-acre Fakahatchee Strand, where she hoped to see the elusive, paper-white "ghost orchid" (or Polyrrhiza lindenii) in bloom.
	www.interbridge.com /jamessanford/features/orlean.html (1421 words)

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