What It Means to Live Among Others

Individualism is just fine if you live on an island in the middle of nowhere

Susan Orlean
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Published in
4 min readSep 17, 2021

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The other day, I came to a stop at an intersection a few miles from my house. The intersection is a whopper, with four wide, divided streets crossing, creating a huge starburst of concrete. As far as I know, there has never been a stoplight at this intersection. It’s controlled…

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Susan Orlean
GEN
Writer for

Staff writer, The New Yorker. Author of The Library Book, The Orchid Thief, and more…Head of my very own Literati.com book club (join me!)