Word: orleans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NAME SPEAKERS INCLUDE...] Kurt Andersen, John Lahr, Susan Orlean, Lillian Ross...
...turns his back on the plant world and its obsessed hobbyists and dives into computers. As he explains to the author of this loose-jointed but absorbing account, "When I was a baby I probably got exposed to something that mutated me, and now I'm incredibly smart." Writer Orlean, at any rate, is a superb tour guide through the loony subculture of Florida's orchid fanciers, and a writer whose sentences can glow like rare blooms, as when she reports that the air above an orchid swamp's sinkholes "has the slack, drapey weight of wet velvet...