Word: orlean
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When 2004 Nieman fellow Susan Orlean began researching the arcane world of rare-flower piracy in the mid-1990s, she was less than immediately successful, as she explained to a capacity audience of Summer School students in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium on Monday...
...time she had managed to pull that research into a New Yorker article and a book, Orlean had a critically acclaimed bestseller on her hands: 1998’s The Orchid Thief...
...work was chosen as the basis of a film scripted by offbeat indie writer Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald Kaufman, who may or may not exist. But when she saw the script to the film, titled Adaptation, her reaction was not surprise but something closer to horror, Orlean said...
...Orlean spends so much time with her subjects that she sometimes can lose her journalistic focus. “I stop thinking of them as interviews…on every story, there is a point where I think, ‘I do not know what I’m doing.’ That’s the wages of doing this kind of profile.” However, she says she’s not hung up on the rules. “I’ve never cared about being an expert, never wanted my pieces...
...When Orlean is not sitting down to interview designer Bill Blass or rapper Fab Five Freddy, New York real estate sharks or Hillary Clinton, she’s usually with her Welsh springer spaniel, Cooper Gillespie. In fact, Cooper’s literary pedigree helped him recently score a book deal. His cookbook, Throw Me A Bone, is out in stores now. Cookbook writer Sally Sampson is a friend and wanted Cooper (i.e. Susan) to be her co-writer. On first hearing the idea, Orlean thought, “My God, I barely know how to cook...