Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean began contributing to The New Yorker in 1987 and became a staff writer in 1992. She is the author of “ On Animals .”
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Susan Orlean on the campaign to release Keiko, the orca whale that starred in “Free Willy,” into the wild.
Susan Orlean on the legacy of the Shaggs, an eclectic female band from the sixties and seventies.
From 1996: Susan Orlean on Centro Vasco, a restaurant in Miami founded by Cuban refugees, and one of the few businesses from the country that came to the U.S. virtually unchanged.
POPULAR CHRONICLES about the painter Julian Schnabel's movie about Jean Michel Basquiat called "Build a Fort, Set It on Fire." Julian's father, …
Susan Orlean writes about how the accomplished horticulturist John Laroche became an orchid thief.
Susan Orlean’s profile of Sue Mengers, who was one of the most formidable agents in Hollywood.
After the attack on the ice skater Nancy Kerrigan, Susan Orlean reported on the knee-clubbing scandal that preceded the 1994 Winter Olympics and implicated Harding’s ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, and Shawn Eckhardt and Shane Stant.
Susan Orlean on the people from all over the world who worked and shopped at Sunshine Market, a grocery store in Jackson Heights, in Queens.
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Susan Orlean’s 1991 Profile of Fab Five Freddy, the artist, musician, and host of “Yo! MTV Raps.”
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PROFILE of Kwabena Oppong, who is the king and supreme ruler of the African Ashanti tribespeople living in the U.S.
Susan Orlean’s Talk story, from 1987, on the Alaskan dog musher Susan Butcher.