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Susan Orlean

New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean is one of America's leading literary journalists. Before joining the New Yorker as a staff writer in 1992 she was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Vogue. She was also a columnist at the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. She is the author of a number of books, including, The "Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup:

Books by Susan Orlean

My Kind of Place : Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere

The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup

The Orchid Thief

My Encounters with Ordinary People," a collection of stories which includes the title piece first featured in Outside; "Red Sox and Blue Fish," a compilation of columns she wrote for the Globe Sunday Magazine; "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 that inspired the film Adaptation. Orlean's work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Spy, Esquire . She lives in Manhattan and Boston with her husband.

It Sweats. It Oozes. It's Crazy with Life.
The Fakahatchee harbors many strange things reluctant to come out. So you need to be willing to go in after them.

Do We Transcend Before or After We Purchase the Commemorative Eel Cakes?
Attempting Mount Fuji, where nature, religion, sport, and schlock form the most holy of alliances

La Matadora Revisa Su Maquillaje
(The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup)
In the 500 dusty years of refined yet raw Spanish ritual, one young matador stands quite apart from the others

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