In a collection of essays from The New Yorker, the author offers profiles of some of the colorful people she has encountered, from the first female Spanish matador to the African king who drives a New York City cab.
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Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at <i>The New Yorker</i> since 1992. Her articles have also appeared in <i>Outside, Rolling Stone, Vogue,</i> and <i>Esquire</i>. She is the author of <b>Saturday Night</b>, a <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book of 1990, which, in the words of <i>Entertainment Weekly</i>, "calls to mind Damon Runyon, Evelyn Waugh, and screwball comedy." She lives in New York City.
ing author of <b>The Orchid Thief</b> is back — and she's brought some friends — in this wonderfully entertaining collection of the acclaimed <i>New Yorker</i> writer's best and brightest profiles. Meet more than thirty-five of Susan Orlean's favorite people — from the well known (Bill Blass and Tonya Harding) to the unknown (a typical ten-year-old boy) to the formerly known (the 1960s girl group the Shaggs).<br><br>Passionate people. Famous people. Short people. Young people. And one championship show dog named Biff, who from a certain angle looks a lot like President Clinton.<br><br>Orlean transports us into the lives of some rather eccentric individuals, like the man who has spent thirty years selling nothing but ceiling fans; or Bob Silverstein, maker of the Big Chair — the creme de la creme of oversized chairs used for novelty photographs at carnivals. Others are living highly unusual lives, like Cristina Sanchez, the eponymous bullfighter, the firs
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