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When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.

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Distance, Rain, Kids

"Hello, It’s Me" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 12, 2010.

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Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

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Fate, Decision, Borders

"Bookmarked" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2011.

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Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.

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Home, Phones, Pests

"Communication Fatigue" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

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Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

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Technology, Fabulous, Sometimes

"Facts of Life". www.newyorker.com. December 8, 2010.

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States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

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Educational, Animal, Law

"Wild Animals Don’t Want to be Owned" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2011.

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Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.

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Real, School, Names

"@leapofFaith" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 22, 2011.

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One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

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Friendship, Phones, My Best Friend

"Togetherness" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2011.

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We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.

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Country, Coffee, People

"On the Wing" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 8, 2011.

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I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

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Reflection, Advice, Culture

"Susan Orlean: Stress in the Cards". www.newyorker.com. May 7, 2009.

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I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

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Home, Phones, Cells

"Communication Fatigue" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

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I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and the hens start laying again, that's all the notice I'll need to know that winter has passed.

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Winter, Needs, Hens

"Seasonal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment.

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Halloween, Moments, Born

"Haunted" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2010.

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I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.

Susan Orlean

Book, Borders, Responsible

"Bookmarked" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2011.

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I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

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Writing, Pieces, Magazines

"Why a Blog?" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 16, 2010.

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I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

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New York, Writing, Class

"An Education" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 15, 2011.

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I've tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really good.

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Thinking, Phones, Different

"iPhone Home: Susan Orlean". www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

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Self, Imagine, Assured

"Thomas Kinkade: Death of a Kitsch Master" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2012.

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Sense of smell, of course, is only one of those dog qualities that can't be replicated or improved upon. I've been researching dogs in warfare for my book about 'Rin Tin Tin,' and I've read many accounts of their heroics: carrying messages through battle, alerting troops to enemy planes, and even parachuting behind enemy lines.

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Dog, Book, Smell

"Hero Dogs" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2011.

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College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids.

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Kids, College, People

"Football U." by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.

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Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it's more social. When you live on lots of acres without neighbors within a stone's throw, your dog-walks are usually solitary rambles over hill and dale.

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Country, Dog, Animal

"The Social Animal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2011.

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I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.

Susan Orlean

Writing, Long, Dresses

"Quirk" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2010.

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I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.

Susan Orlean

Friendly, Beginnings And Ends, Use

"Dear Reader" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2010.

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In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

Susan Orlean

Past, Years, Cds

"One Thing, From Susan Orlean: “Partagez”". www.newyorker.com. March 9, 2009.

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It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime.

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Beach, Ocean, People

"Culture Desk On the Wing" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 8, 2011.

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Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.

Susan Orlean

Google, Historical, Important

"Google It" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 16, 2011.

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