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Review title: The Dreaded Urge to Collect That Which Should Not Be
Product review: Susan Orlean's magazine pieces (usually in The New Yorker) define a certain bright, glossy, mannered high standard in magazine entertainment. At best they're very fluent and well-reported, at worst they cloy and preen with a glib, narcissistic flatness that may not bug you too much until you try to read the piece a second time. (In this respect Orlean and Adam Gopnick are the Homecoming Queen and King of enamelled profundity in literary journalism.) She (or her editors) generally choose her subjects wisely, so novelty and variation disguise her remarkably narrow range. Will someone want to read this stuff in 10 or 20 years? I don't want to read them again now. Write that subscription renewal check for The New Yorker, but save the hardcover bucks for writing that isn't trapped in a self-enchanted hall of mirrors.
