SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIALIST

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: May 5, 1990| Author: | Copyright information

Toothpaste tubes and Saturday nights. Author Susan Orlean collects both, diligently, enthusiastically, without missing a kitsch. The tubes, bearing labels from around the world, sit unsqueezed within the glass panes of her New York apartment, safe beside her umpteen other curious collections; the Saturday nights, strictly American in origin, have a more public home -- in her new book, "Saturday Night in America."

Toothpaste tubes and Saturday nights. For Orlean, a quirky curator of modern cultural behavior, both are artifacts that, as she says on the phone from her Upper West Side ...

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