You need to see the world, for people who are relying on you as a writer to tell them about the world, and that means telling them about the world that isn’t just the obvious world, but the world beyond it.
Click play to listen. Recorded on November 13, 2005.
Susan Orlean, longtime journalist for such magazines as The New Yorker and Rolling Stone and author of The Orchid Thief, takes her audience down dirt roads and overseas, over the river and through the woods, across the world and right back home. She recounts her adventures researching various subcultures and her uncannily realistic observations of the eccentric characters she meets on the road. From her first time shooting a double-barrel shotgun to riding in a van with a gang of gospel singers, Orlean shows her wonderful gift for assimilating into new environments and writing about her journeys with wit and wisdom.
