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A Place Called Midland by Susan Orlean


A Place Called Midland - Susan Orlean

Most people, if they know about Midland at all, know that it is where Baby Jessica McClure was rescued from a well thirteen years ago, and where George W. Bush ...

A Place Called Midland | The New Yorker

LETTER FROM TEXAS about Midland, the home town of presidential candidate Gov. George W. Bush... Originally, Midland was a depot on the Texas & ...

"A Place Called Midland" by Susan Orlean - LiveJournal

This memoir/essay attempts to make a dull place interesting as Orlean explains her visit to Midland, Texas and the experiences that such a ...

Susan Orlean on Stagecraft (and How Writing Can Be Like Stripping ...

... Midland for the next three days. (Click here to read her story, “A Place Called Midland.”) Reluctant to begin an encounter with someone by ...

Articles - Susan Orlean

A broker would have called it a charming Swiss chalet; what it should have been called ... A Place Called Midland The New Yorker, on October 16 & 23, 2000. In ...

Susan Orlean will bring lessons on “unearthing history” back to Texas

Despite the oppressive heat — in her 2000 story, “A Place Called Midland,” Orlean describes it as “the kind of air that hits you like a brick” — ...

Articles by Susan Orlean

A Place Called Midland The New Yorker, on October 16 & 23, 2000. In Midland, Texas, it's not the heat; it's the lack of humidity. Almost total lack of it, or ...

Collection: Susan Orlean Papers, 1930s-2015, 2019

1: Audiovisual, undated, 1987-2010 · Midland ("A Place Called Midland")--Notebooks, circa 2000 Box 12, Folder 21. Rare Book & Manuscript Library · Susan Orlean ...

My Kind of Place - Susan Orlean

In some cases (Midland, Texas, for instance) the place WAS the story. About ... known as “Horror High”; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey ...

Letter from Texas | The New Yorker

... of life in post-Roe America. By Stephania Taladrid. June 13, 2022. A Place Called Midland. By Susan Orlean. October 8, 2000. The New Yorker. Sections.

Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere - Susan Orlean

... Midland million mother Mount Fuji mountain moved named ... She now lives in New York City and can be reached via the internet at www.susanorlean.com ...

My kind of place: travel stories from a woman who's been ...

Literary journalist Orlean has been called ... Susan Orlean. Table of contents : Content: Here -- Lifelike [Springfield, IL] -- A Place Called Midland [Midland, ...

My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been ...

... A Place Called Midland', on George W. Bush's stomping grounds; 'Art for ... MY KIND OF PLACE, by Susan Orlean, takes the reader on a fantastic journey ...

MY KIND OF PLACE - Kirkus Reviews

Like Midland, Texas, the bleached and searing town where George H.W. ... Susan Orlean. ON ANIMALS. BOOK REVIEW. ON ANIMALS. by Susan Orlean · THE LIBRARY ...

GTT - The New York Times

Susan Orlean, the author of the nonfiction book “The Orchid Thief,” on ... In The New Yorker in 2000, she wrote “A Place Called Midland ...

"A Place Called Midland" by Susan Orlean - ENC3310

"A Place Called Midland" by Susan Orlean. This essay was extremely well written. I loved Orlean's writing style, and the way she characterized ...

travel stories from a woman who's been everywhere / Susan Orlean ...

"In My Kind of Place, Susan Orlean takes readers on a series of ... A place called Midland [Midland, TX]; Beautiful girls [Prattville, AL]; Party ...

MY KIND OF PLACE: Travel Stories From A Woman Who's Been ...

Susan Orlean has been called “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and “a kind of latter-day Tocqueville” by The New York Times Book Review. In ...

Description: My kind of place - Search Home

Summary. Susan Orlean has been called "a national treasure" by The Washington Post and "a kind of latter-day Tocqueville" by The New York Times Book Review.

My Kind of Place by Susan Orlean - Penguin Random House

New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel ...