Susan Orlean

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Susan Orlean

Former racehorse deemed too quirky to rehome now happy at centre helping people, a horse whose extreme bucking led to wire being found in his forehead – and other things the horse world is talking aboutHorse & Hound’s daily debrief, brought to you every weekday Former racehorse excelling in second-chance home An 18-year-old former racehorse has found …

5 days ago | gardenandgun.com | Susan Orlean

Arts & CultureThe Virginia tradition connects generations of Saltwater Cowboys, the descendants of Misty herself, and two islands where wildness reigns Brooks Leonard is a fifth-generation saltwater cowboy. Last summer, he was close to three feet tall, fond of crackers, and on the thrilling cusp of turning three years old.

1 week ago | susanorlean.substack.com | Susan Orlean

Happy Friday, everyone, at the end of a holiday week during which I couldn’t remember the day of the week (the curse of Monday holidays), which followed a week when I returned from an overseas trip on Monday, which meant not only being mixed up about the day of the week but being jet-lagged. I’m still writing 2024 on my checks, too. Ok, enough: Thank you for listening to me whine. Wordy Bird is a reader-supported publication.

3 weeks ago | susanorlean.substack.com | Susan Orlean

I fancy myself an unflappable speaker. I give lectures and talks all the time, and I simply don’t get rattled by it. I think I’m just missing that gene, or hormone, or nerve system that gets jiggled by standing in front of a group of people; thank goodness, since being a writer these days demands at least a little bit of public performance.

4 weeks ago | susanorlean.substack.com | Susan Orlean

I’m in Buffalo, New York, to give a talk at the annual fundraiser for the Buffalo & Erie County library system. On my flight here, I read that Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress for the past ten years and the first accredited librarian, first African American, and first woman to hold the post, had been booted out of her job by Donald Trump with no explanation and nothing more than a curt email telling her to clear her desk. I met Dr. Hayden a few years ago.