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
san-francisco office navy
To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.
educational animal law
States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.
passion care want
I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.
preference macs
I have worked on PCs and on Macs and, while I have my preferences, I don't find it crippling to work on one rather than the other.
zoos perfect quality
In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.
loneliness ideas might
I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.
problem desks treadmills
The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.
shopping ipads letters
On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases.
hands issues information-is-power
I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.
radio annoying shocked
I rarely listen to commercial radio, and when I do, I'm shocked by how many ads there are, and how annoying they are, and how bad the radio station usually is.
halloween moments born
I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment.
procrastination thinking creative
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.
dedication tunnels digging
I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.
spring block garden
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!