The Orchid Thief
The Orchid Thief is a 1998 non-fiction book by American journalist Susan Orlean based on an article that Orlean wrote for The New Yorker. It is based on her investigation of the 1994 arrest of John Laroche and a group of Seminole Indians in south Florida for poaching rare orchids in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. Laroche, a Miami eccentric, hit upon the idea of collecting endangered species of orchids from […]
Ode to Charlie Kaufmann
Every now and then you read/ watch stories that are just so unique, creative, odd and freakishly brilliant that you sit up straight. This is the case when you watch a Charlie Kaufman movie. Screenwriter for Being John Malkovich [1999], Adaptation [2002], Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [2004], and more, his stories explore the […]