Susan Orlean has been called "a national treasure" by "The Washington Post" and "a kind of latter-day Tocqueville" by "The New York Times Book Review". In addition to having written classic articles for "The New Yorker," she was played, with some creative liberties, by Meryl Streep in her Golden Globe Award--winning performance in the film 'Adaptation'. Now, in "My Kind of Place," the real Susan Orlean takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois-and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous house guest taking advantage of her hospitality. Vivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orlean's writings for "The New Yorker" have delighted readers for over a decade. "My Kind of Place" is an inimitable treat by one of America's premier literary journalists.
