Ah, the Taconics

I'll admit that I haven't read any of Susan Orlean's work -- my mental image of her comes from the film Adaptation, in which she's a character.  (Kind of.)  She was recently featured in an article about her new home.  Over in Slate, Timothy Noah looks over the piece , in which Orlean extols the luxury and design of her new digs, and comments that

The main thing, though, is that an inclination to state forthrightly, "I have a gorgeous multimillion-dollar house in the country and you don't," calls severely into question the journalist's ability to identify with the ordinary people about whom one is called upon, at least once in a while, to write.

Which, I'd say, speaks for itself...