Susan Orlean has a plum job. As a writer for The New Yorker, she travels the globe to get at the essence of what makes a place a place. She won’t tell you which hotel has the fluffiest towels or where to eat the best seared foie gras. Instead, we get traders at the taxidermy convention in Springfield, IL, comparing notes on bear claws.
From Boise to Bhutan, Susan Orlean hunts for the eccentric, the unsung, and the astonishingly obsessed. With equal parts curiosity and amusement, her stories dig beneath the surface of what might at first repel us, to find what is human, and strangely familiar.
Guests:
Susan Orlean, staff writer for The New Yorker, author of “The Orchid Thief,” and most recently, “This Must Be The Place: Travel Stories From A Woman Who’s Been Everywhere.”