Susan Orlean Reflects on Esquire Cover Story 30 Years Later at University of Louisiana at Lafayette Levy Lecture
October 07, 2023
October 07, 2023
LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, Oct. 7 -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story:
New Yorker writer Susan Orlean stood before a captive audience at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Angelle Hall auditorium and compared her work as a reporter to the orchid hunters she wrote about in her bestselling book, "The Orchid Thief."
"There is an element there of being the explorer and then coming back to say, 'Look what I fou . . .
New Yorker writer Susan Orlean stood before a captive audience at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Angelle Hall auditorium and compared her work as a reporter to the orchid hunters she wrote about in her bestselling book, "The Orchid Thief."
"There is an element there of being the explorer and then coming back to say, 'Look what I fou . . .