Susan Orlean's Rift in The Socio-Economic Continuum

Washington Post writer Ann Hornaday adds a new word to the lexicon, “idolspize,” to encapsulate her violently mixed feelings toward New Yorker Susan Orlean. The grain of sand which yielded this pearl of a personal essay was Orlean’s perhaps-not-the-greatest idea to open her doors to The New York Times’ House & Home section last month, which exploded the myth that she was but a humble scrivener and revealed that she had married into serious money (in addition to her own).