Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean
Even after she had seven books to her credit (and was the subject of a movie starring Meryl Streep), Susan Orlean endured a piece of familiar fatherly advice: go to law school, in case writing “didn’t work out.” Practical but always optimistic, her father came of age during the Great Depression. Orlean thinks she could […]
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Susan Orlean
Even after she had seven books to her credit (and was the subject of a movie starring Meryl Streep), Susan Orlean endured a piece of familiar fatherly advice: go to law school, in case writing “didn’t work out.” Practical but always optimistic, her father came of age during the Great Depression. Orlean thinks she could […]
Susan Orlean
Even after she had seven books to her credit (and was the subject of a movie starring Meryl Streep), Susan Orlean endured a piece of familiar fatherly advice: go to law school, in case writing ?didn’t work out.? Practical but always optimistic, her father came of age during the Great Depression. Orlean thinks she could […]
The Great American Reset
This week, Studio 360 looks for ways to use the economic crisis to our advantage: think of it as the Great American Reset. In a show taped live at 2009’s Aspen Ideas Festival, the writer Susan Orlean remembers the optimism of her late father, who came of age during the Depression. The band They Might […]
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