The New Yorker's Susan Orlean Moving to Los Angeles

New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean–she of Orchid Thief fame–is moving to Los Angeles for the next several months. Perhaps a sign of LA’s growing legitimacy among Northeasterly lit types, Orlean seems to have received none of the typical what-will you-do-about-the- food-lack-of-culture-horrible-architecture-traffic queries. Instead, her friends and readers are worried about her chickens.

It is legal to have them in Los Angeles, as long as they’re a polite distance from your neighbors; and there’s a lively L.A.

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