Susan Orlean
Auteur de L.A. Bibliothèque
A propos de l'auteur
Susan Orlean is a staff writer for The New Yorker and has also written for Outside, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Vogue. She graduated from the University of Michigan and worked as a reporter in Portland, Oregon, and Boston, Massachusetts. Orlean is the author of The Orchid Thief and Rin Tin Tin: The afficher plus Life and Legend. She now lives in New York City and can be reached via the internet at www.susanorlean.com (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Author Susan Orlean at the 2018 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74083144
Œuvres de Susan Orlean
My Kind of Place: Unabridged Selections: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere (2004) 2 exemplaires
Thinking in the Rain 1 exemplaire
The Three Sisters [Essay] 1 exemplaire
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Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Contributeur — 181 exemplaires
The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World (2001) — Contributeur — 89 exemplaires
True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine (2014) — Introduction — 51 exemplaires
Love and Ruin: Tales of Obsession, Danger, and Heartbreak from the Atavist Magazine (2016) — Introduction — 38 exemplaires
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
Flowers in Shadow: A Photographer Discovers a Victorian Botanical Journal (2002) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Orlean, Susan
- Autres noms
- Sistrom, Susan
- Date de naissance
- 1955-10-31
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Etats-Unis
- Lieu de naissance
- Cleveland, Ohio, Etats-Unis
- Lieux de résidence
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA (birthplace)
Columbia County, New York, USA
Portland, Oregon, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Pine Plains, New York, USA - Études
- University of Michigan (BA|1976)
- Professions
- Journaliste
- Organisations
- The New Yorker
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- 26
- Membres
- 10,104
- Popularité
- #2,351
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 436
- ISBN
- 120
- Langues
- 8
- Favoris
- 14
This is a well-researched book that explores not only the events and aftermath of April 29, 1986, when the Central Library of Los Angeles burned but the history of the library as well. The author also becomes acquainted with current employees and the programs they offer, as well as their plans for the future. In doing so, she is able to confirm the library system's continuing importance to the communities they serve.
My only criticism is that sometimes the author sometimes gets side-tracked by minutiae. But overall it is very interesting and very readable. It makes me appreciate my home library even more.
On a recent visit, I entered it with new eyes, noticing the programs and activities offered. I also observed the patrons. Children and their parents leaving a read-aloud ventured into the Children's section. Students and tutors were quietly working. Young adults were quietly working on lap tops.
Patrons were perusing shelves or using online catalogs to find material. All in all, an important public space.… (plus d'informations)