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Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean

Staff Writer at The New Yorker

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Nicolas Cage Is Still Evolving

Where was the rager, the explosive madman who years later would inspire a viral supercut on YouTube of the climactic outbursts that marked such films as “Moonstruck” and “Face/Off” and “Vampire’s Kiss”? From what I can tell, Cage leaves it all on the set. In person, he’s courtly, gentle, careful with his words, reflective, and quick to be silly. The yawning divide between his performances and his personality is deliberate: having appeared in more than a hundred films since he began acting as a t…
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From House Arrest to the Oscars Circuit

During their time in Los Angeles, Wine and Kyagulanyi kept up a hectic schedule of press interviews and the meet-and-greet parties that are standard Oscar campaign events, in addition to the luncheon, where Kyagulanyi was seated next to Cillian Murphy and took a selfie with Emma Stone. Wine, who was at a different table, didn’t recognize his seatmates. “I don’t get to watch contemporary films,” he explained, noting how much time he’s spent in and out of prison over the past few years. “But I’m s…
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The Instant Pot and the Miracle Kitchen Devices of Yesteryear

Preparing meals is a Sisyphean task, and anything that promises to make it faster, or easier, or better, or healthier, or more fun, is irresistible.
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The Salmon in the Sky

A painted plane that flew the Alaskan coast.
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The Photographer of the Black Is Beautiful Movement

Kwame Brathwaite’s landmark work, beginning with a show in 1962, had a titanic impact on fashion and identity.
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The First Magician on the Vegas Strip

Gloria Dea began performing when she was five years old. Even then, she was sassy and self-assured.
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A Long Life as a Disney Animator

For nearly seventy years, Burny Mattinson drew many of the studio’s best-loved characters.
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Blanche the Unusually Friendly Swan

She reigned at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, but life wasn’t always easy.
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The Bartender Behind the Blue Hawaii

How Harry Yee put “paradise”—and those little umbrellas—in a cocktail glass.
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The Fort Wayne Daisies’ Star Pitcher

Apart from the charm-school classes, Maxine Kline relished her time in the girls’ professional baseball league.
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The Deer Who Lived Upstairs

Dillie, a whitetail from Ohio, defied many expectations during her unexpectedly long life.
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A Man Who Loved Rattlesnakes

Eugene DeLeon liked that he was doing something helpful in town.
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The Tap-Dancing TV Chef

LaDeva Davis was a major presence on Philadelphia’s dance scene—and dancing was just one of her talents.
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Choco Tacos and Remembrance of Junk Foods Past

Perhaps, during these feel-bad times, losing a simple delight feels especially unsettling.
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Ivana Trump Was Always the Boss of Her

She seemed animated by the attention she received, even when it was negative.
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An Old Dog That Found a New Best Friend

Steve Greig shares his Colorado home with lovable last-chance creatures.
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Putting on Puppet Shows with an Edge

Discovering puppeteering changed Margo Lovelace—and the art scene in Pittsburgh.
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A Country Star from the First Nations

Shane Yellowbird, as it happens, was an accidental singer.
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The Hard-Won Triumphs of a Life on the Corner in West Baltimore

Fran Andrews’s story became a book, a miniseries, and an inspiration.
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A Chef Who Offered Chinese Food in Spanish

How Lupe Liang’s restaurant in L.A.’s Chinatown fed everyone.
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A Tavern Owner Who Became the Quintessential Mayor of Portland

Back in the nineteen-eighties, Bud Clark was aligned with where his city was heading.