Susan Orlean’s “My Kind of Place”
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 10.12.04 | 6:58 PM ET
The Chicago Sun-Times’ Jennifer Hunter reviewed a new collection of travel stories by Susan Orlean in Sunday’s paper. “My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere” features articles Orlean has written for the Atlantic Monthly and Outside, among other publications. The stories aren’t conventional travel narratives, Hunter observes. The book “does tell you something about place, but it tells more about the ordinary people who inhabit that place and the ethos that governs their lives,” she writes. Hunter’s review also includes a thoughtful rumination about the history of women travel writers: “Travel writing became a natural genre for women authors during the 18th century, when transportation became less arduous and social strictures began to loosen, a welcome consequence of the revolutionary period in France.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
