My Kind Of Place

by Orlean, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780786272891
• ISBN10: 0786272899
• Edition: Large
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-02
• Publisher: Thorndike Pr

Summary

The author presents a selection of her travel essays, recounting her adventures in a variety of exotic locales and global subcultures, from the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(14)
PART ONE: Here
Lifelike [Springfield, IL]	23	(19)
A Place Called Midland [Midland, TX]	42	(19)
Beautiful Girls [Prattville, AL]	61	(30)
Party Line [Dimondale, MI]	91	(7)
Madame President [New York City, NY]	98	(21)
All Mixed Up [Queens, NY]	119	(67)
The Lady and the Tigers [Jackson, NJ]	186	(27)
Super-Duper [Miami, FL]	213	(14)
PART TWO: There
The Homesick Restaurant [Miami, FL, and Havana, Cuba]	227	(24)
Rough Diamonds [Havana, Cuba]	251	(17)
Carbonaro and Primavera [Cienfuegos, Cuba]	268	(8)
The Congo Sound [Paris, France]	276	(20)
Like Waters and Chocolate Pancakes [Heviz, Hungary]	296	(7)
Shooting Party [Biggar, Scotland]	303	(4)
Fertile Ground [Bhutan]	307	(28)
Do We Transcend Before or After We Purchase the Commemorative Eel Cakes? [Mount Fuji, Japan]	335	(28)
Game Plan [Sydney, Australia]	363	(16)
The Place to Disappear [Bangkok, Thailand]	379	(20)
PART THREE: Everywhere
Homewrecker	399	(3)
The World	402	(4)
Skymalling	406	(13)
We Just Up and Left	419	(23)
Art for Everybody	442	(24)
Intensive Care	466	(4)
Royalty	470	(7)
Uplifting	477	(4)
My Life: A Series of Performance Art Pieces	481	(6)
Shiftless Little Loafers	487	(4)
Where's Willy?	491	(30)
Shadow Memory	521	(3)
Afterword	524	(5)
Author's Note	529	(3)
Acknowledgments	532