{"id":6810,"date":"2019-03-06T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/?p=6810"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:47:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:47:57","slug":"adapting-with-susan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miguelitoslittlegreencar.com\/blog\/adapting-with-susan\/","title":{"rendered":"Adapting With Susan"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” specialty=”off” transparent_background=”off” background_color=”#a8cf45″ parallax_method=”off” custom_padding_tablet=”50px|0|50px|0″ custom_padding_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.0.82″ custom_padding=”10px|||” box_shadow_position=”outer” next_background_color=”#ffffff” global_module=”5837″][et_pb_fullwidth_post_title global_parent=”5837″ title=”on” meta=”off” author=”off” date=”off” categories=”on” comments=”on” featured_image=”off” featured_placement=”background” parallax_effect=”on” parallax_method=”off” text_orientation=”center” text_color=”light” text_background=”off” text_bg_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)” module_bg_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0)” title_all_caps=”off” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” title_font=”|on|||” title_font_size=”35px” custom_padding=”2%||2%|” parallax=”on” background_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0)”]\n[\/et_pb_fullwidth_post_title][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” transparent_background=”off” background_color=”#ffffff” parallax_method=”off” custom_padding=”0%||0px|” _builder_version=”3.0.82″ box_shadow_position=”outer” prev_background_color=”#a8cf45″ next_background_color=”#a8cf45″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” custom_padding=”0px|0px|0px|0px” parallax_method=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” _builder_version=”3.0.85″ width_unit=”off” custom_width_percent=”100%” use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ make_fullwidth=”on”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_post_title admin_label=”Featured Image” title=”off” meta=”off” author=”off” date=”on” categories=”on” comments=”on” featured_image=”on” featured_placement=”below” parallax_effect=”on” text_color=”dark” text_background=”off” module_bg_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0)” border_style=”solid” title_font_size=”40px” title_text_color=”#a8cf45″ background_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0)” _builder_version=”3.19.14″ custom_padding=”|0px||0px” box_shadow_position=”outer” parallax_method=”on” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”on” background_color=”#ededed” parallax_method=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” _builder_version=”3.0.85″ custom_padding=”|0px||0px” use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Title” header_font_size=”50px” module_alignment=”left” _builder_version=”3.19.18″ custom_padding=”|||20px” text_orientation=”right”]\n

Featuring Susan Orlean<\/strong>
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March 5, 2019
\nEdmonton, Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”The Story Header” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” text_font=”|on|||” text_font_size=”32″ module_alignment=”center” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”]\n

The story<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Bio” use_border_color=”on” module_alignment=”left” _builder_version=”3.19.18″ border_color_all=”on”]\n

In Susan’s words:<\/p>\n

What can I tell you? I am the product of a happy and relatively uneventful childhood in Cleveland, Ohio (back when the Indians were still a lousy team, and before they became a really good team and then again became a somewhat lousy team, although I have hope again…) This was followed by a happy and relatively squandered college career at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (back when Ann Arbor hosted a Hash Bash every spring). I studied literature and history and always dreamed of being a writer, but had no idea of how you went about being a writer – or at least the kind of writer I wanted to be: someone who wrote long stories about interesting things, rather than news stories about short-lived events. There is no guidebook to becoming that kind of writer, so I assumed I’d end up doing something practical like going to law school, much as the thought of it made me cringe. After college, I moved to Portland, Oregon (back when Portland was cappucino-free) to kill some time before the inevitable trek to law school – and amazingly enough I lucked into a writing job at a tiny now-defunct monthly magazine. That led to a job at an alternative newsweekly in Portland where I wrote music reviews and feature pieces. While I was in Portland, Mt. St. Helens erupted; I started writing for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice; I learned to cross-country ski; I failed to learn how to cook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I moved to Boston in 1982 (back before they built the Ted Williams Tunnel and long before the Red Sox reversed the curse). I wrote for the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Globe, and started work on my first book Saturday Night. Four years later I moved to New York. After moving to New York, I learned how to snowboard; wrote The Orchid Thief; became a staff writer at The New Yorker; got married; got a Welsh Springer Spaniel; learned how to order take-out food. These days I do some lecturing and some teaching, but most of the time I’m writing pieces for The New Yorker and occasionally for other magazines, and working on books. My latest project, a book about the Los Angeles Public Library and the arson fire there in 1986, will be published in October, 2018, by Simon and Schuster. Right now, I split my time between Los Angeles and the Hudson Valley of New York, with my husband, my son, and a small menagerie of animals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.19.14″ disabled=”off” disabled_on=”off|off|off”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_divider color=”#eaeaea” show_divider=”on” divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” height=”2″ disabled_on=”on|on” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Fun Facts Header” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” text_font=”|on|||” text_font_size=”32″ module_alignment=”center” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”]\n

Fun facts<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row padding_mobile=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”on” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” parallax_method_3=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” _builder_version=”3.19.14″ disabled=”off” disabled_on=”off|off|off”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_blurb admin_label=”Blurb 2″ use_icon=”on” font_icon=”%%73%%” text_orientation=”center” background_color=”#f9f9f9″ use_border_color=”on” custom_padding=”20px|20px|20px|20px” _builder_version=”3.19.18″ border_color_all=”#d1d1d1″ border_width_all=”2px” animation=”off”]\n

Susan has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to many magazines including Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb admin_label=”Blurb 1″ use_icon=”on” font_icon=”%%1600%%” text_orientation=”center” background_color=”#f9f9f9″ use_border_color=”on” custom_padding=”20px|20px|20px|20px” _builder_version=”3.19.18″ border_color_all=”#d1d1d1″ border_width_all=”2px” animation=”off”]\n

She also wrote the Women’s Outside article, “Life’s Swell”, which featured a group of young surfer girls in Maui, and behind the the basis of the film Blue Crush<\/a>.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_blurb admin_label=”Blurb 2″ use_icon=”on” font_icon=”%%619%%” text_orientation=”center” background_color=”#f9f9f9″ use_border_color=”on” custom_padding=”20px|20px|20px|20px” _builder_version=”3.19.18″ border_color_all=”#d1d1d1″ border_width_all=”2px” animation=”off”]\n

She is best known as the author of the 1998 book The Orchid Thief, which was adapted into the 2002 film Adaptation<\/a>.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb admin_label=”Blurb 5″ use_icon=”on” font_icon=”%%461%%” text_orientation=”center” background_color=”#f9f9f9″ use_border_color=”on” custom_padding=”20px|20px|20px|20px” _builder_version=”3.19.18″ border_color_all=”#d1d1d1″ border_width_all=”2px” animation=”off”]\n

She is the author of eight books, including \u201cThe Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People\u201d; \u201cMy Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who\u2019s Been Everywhere\u201d; \u201cRed Sox and Bluefish\u201d; \u201cSaturday Night\u201d; \u201cThe Orchid Thief\u201d.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_blurb admin_label=”Blurb 4″ use_icon=”on” font_icon=”%%985%%” text_orientation=”center” background_color=”#f9f9f9″ use_border_color=”on” custom_padding=”20px|20px|20px|20px” _builder_version=”3.19.18″ border_color_all=”#d1d1d1″ border_width_all=”2px” animation=”off”]\n

Meryl Streep received an Academy Award nomination for her performance as Susan.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb admin_label=”Blurb 6″ use_icon=”on” font_icon=”%%788%%” text_orientation=”center” background_color=”#f9f9f9″ use_border_color=”on” custom_padding=”20px|20px|20px|20px” _builder_version=”3.19.18″ border_color_all=”#d1d1d1″ border_width_all=”2px” animation=”off”]\n

Her Welsh Springer Spaniel is enjoys swimming, eating plastic, sitting on top of the newspaper when she’s reading it, and chicken.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.82″ custom_padding=”||0px|” box_shadow_position=”outer”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_divider color=”#eaeaea” show_divider=”on” divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” height=”2″ disabled_on=”on|on” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”JetPack Related Posts” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” disabled=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|on” module_alignment=”left” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”]\n[jetpack-related-posts]\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code admin_label=”Disqus Code” _builder_version=”3.19.14″]\n

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