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Susan Orlean, Twitter high priestess and author of the amazing Orchid Thief disagrees.
FORBES: Who Are We? Women, The Web and Self-(Mis)Representation
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Unsocialized but erudite, a moralist, a theorist, a swamp-bred crank, Laroche fascinates the melancholy Orlean, who feels her life lacks a consuming passion.
NEWYORKER: Adaptation
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Orlean describes the extra-canine feats that Duncan would train Rinty to perform as indelibly connected to a relationship of mutual respect between dog and man.
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Duncan clearly succeeded in his endeavor, as has Orlean in hers.
FORBES: Booked Review: "Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend"
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Orlean delights in elegantly recasting fringe characters on their own terms, following them along narrative arcs from an exterior perspective, where they might seem strange or off-putting, to more sympathetic territory.
FORBES: Booked Review: "Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend"
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We see that story: Orlean (Meryl Streep) tags along with John Laroche (Chris Cooper), a Florida man who was arrested while stealing a rare form of orchid from a state wilderness preserve.
NEWYORKER: Adaptation
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Thus far, Travelreads has highlighted some fantastic travel stories, including Michael Lewis's celebrated Vanity Fair report about Iceland during the financial crisis and Susan Orlean's classic New Yorker article on the backpackers who haunt Bangkok's Khao San Road.
BBC: Fantastic and free travel stories
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She asked a panel that included Lisa Ling, HuffPo tech editor Bianca Bosker, author Susan Orlean and Tiffany Shlain, who founded the Webby Awards, a single leading question: are you the same woman online and off?
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Orlean writes sentences that make you ache with longing for moments in the past, those by which each person individually defines happiness, whether it be the comforts of a beloved pet or the joy of reading a great book like this one.
FORBES: Booked Review: "Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend"