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Article: The culture of hanging out. (Susan Orlean, author of Saturday Night) (Horizons) (interview)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- June 4, 1990
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CONVERSATION * Some cruise Main Street, while others visit the vet's. In her newly published study, Saturday Night, Susan Orlean explores the diversity of experience and the common meaning in the evening that has become synonymous with leisure time in this country What prompted you to do a book about how Americans spend Saturday night?
I had heard about a controversy in Elkhart, Ind., where the mayor was considering clamping down on Saturday night cruising-driving up and down Main Street in fancy cars. When you cruise, you are not really doing anything; the pleasure is all in your mind. I went to Elkhart to find out what the dispute was really all about; it ...