Susan Orlean

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Susan Orlean gets the dirt on Rin Tin Tin

Woof!
New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean has been busy talking up her latest book, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend (Simon & Schuster), a biography of the most popular animal actor in history, and his impact on American culture.
By JOHN J. KELLY | November 30, 2011

Dear Phoenix Readers

A word from the new editor
’Sup.
By CARLY CARIOLI | June 25, 2010

Uncovering the imagination

Finding human truths in Found items
More than meaningless scraps of paper, discarded objects, or misplaced keepsakes, Found items are stories in themselves.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | May 06, 2009

Good dirt

Davy Rothbart of Found magazine reads from Requiem on Saturday night at Precinct in Union Square
"Part of the mystery, when you find a love letter that was torn into bits: was it torn up by the person who received it, or did the person that wrote it tear it up before they even gave it to them?"
By MIKE MILIARD | May 06, 2009

More different than alike

Searching for national identity in State By State: A Panoramic Portrait of America
In 1935, Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) as part of the New Deal’s Works Projects Administration (WPA).
By MIKE MILIARD | September 24, 2008

Reading roundup

Autumn’s authors about town
This fall’s regional literary scene will see abstinence and desire, ghosts and dykes, convicts and Christians, toxic water bottles and yummy food.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | September 10, 2008

Know when to fold ’em

‘Origami Now!’ at the Peabody Essex
Origami has been practiced in Japan for at least the past 400 years, and we’ve all seen the usual paper cranes, boats, hats, boxes.
By RANDI HOPKINS | June 05, 2007

Harvard Square

Ground zero for so much, for so many
Harvard Square was very different 40 years ago.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | November 15, 2006

The pornography of pharmacology

Pagan Kennedy on drugs, memory, and the lure of nostalgia
“We’re so disconnected from our past selves,” says Kennedy. “Like what would the eight year-old you think of you now? That’s something that’s unsettling to me. I’d love to go back to be able to talk to the eight year-old.” Memories of you: Pagan Kennedy’s future nostalgia.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | June 27, 2006