Description

The best-selling writer of The Orchid Thief is back with this specific wonderfully entertaining assortment of her best and brightest pages. Recommended New Yorker writer Susan Orlean brings her wry sensibility, exuberant voice, and peculiar curiosities to an amazing selection of subjects—from the well known (Bill Blass) to the unknown (an average ten-year-old boy) to the formerly known (the 1960s girl-group the Shaggs).Passionate individuals. Celebrities. Brief people.