Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. Her articles have also appeared in Outside, Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Esquire. She is the author of A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean's ... [... more]
Random House |
The Best American Travel Writing 2001
 Not romantic, but rivetting: Anyone who's read Paul Theroux's travel books - "The Old Patagonian Express," "The Happy Isles of Oceania" - knows he's not in it for the fun. His selections for the best travel pieces of 2000 (for this 200 [... more]
$27.50
Amazon.com |
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
The bestselling author of The Orchid Thief is back ? and she's brought some friends ? in this wonderfully entertaining collection of the acclaimed New Yorker writer's best and brightest profiles. Meet more than thirty-five of Susan Orlean's favorite [... more]
$9.94
eBooks |
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
The orchid thief in Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer... [... more]
$27.97 (Save 30%)
Audible |
Jennifer Jay Myers
Read by Oliver Wyman, Rick Adamson and Jennifer Jay Myers, Edited by William Irwin 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 ... [... more]
Random House |
Literary Journalism
Some of the best and most original prose in America today is being written by literary journalists. Memoirs and personal essays, profiles, science and nature reportage, travel writingliterary journalists are working in all of these forms with artful [... more]
$4.76
A1 Books |
The Best American Essays 2006
DIVThe essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between, writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, [... more]
$1.50
A1 Books |
Zero Break: An Illustrated Collection of Surf Writing, ...
DIVThe author of The Encyclopedia of Surfing returns with this definitive anthology of the best-ever writing about surfing, illustrated with classic and cutting-edge photographs and artwork. Hip and eclectic, the collection speaks to surfing's widespread [... more]
$1.97
A1 Books |
Redneck Riviera: Armadillos, Outlaws and the Demise of ...
Fascinating, in fits and starts: The core of the book, which is the author's wrongheaded and doomed attempt to reclaim his father's land -- now dominated by local hunters, outlaws and vaguely corrupt law enforcement officials -- is fascinating. Covington' [... more]
$13.00
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The Thong Also Rises: Further Misadventures from Funny ...
This is a compilation: I enjoyed reading some of the authors in this book (eg Ayun Halliday), but these stories aren't necessarily new- they're extracts from already published novels. I was disappointed about this as I was looking for well crafted short [... more]
$14.95
Amazon.com |
Redneck Riviera: Armadillos, Outlaws, and the Demise of ...
Fascinating, in fits and starts: The core of the book, which is the author's wrongheaded and doomed attempt to reclaim his father's land -- now dominated by local hunters, outlaws and vaguely corrupt law enforcement officials -- is fascinating. Covington' [... more]
$25.00
Amazon.com |
The Best American Travel Writing 2001
Not romantic, but rivetting: Anyone who's read Paul Theroux's travel books - "The Old Patagonian Express," "The Happy Isles of Oceania" - knows he's not in it for the fun. His selections for the best travel pieces of 2000 (for this 200 [... more]
$13.00
Amazon.com |
