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By Amy Finch

Boston Phoenix | October 19, 2004

Susan Orlean knows that stories lurk everywhere, in day-to-day drear as well as on mountaintops on the other side of the planet.

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Tags: My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere, Susan Orlean, Nonfiction Reviews

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The Boston Phoenix was founded in 1966 as an arts and entertainment newspaper for the 18-40 year old market. Today, with editions in Rhode Island and Portland, Maine, the Phoenix has a distribution of 220,000 and more than 600,000 readers...

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