Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I think asking the question ‘who cares?’ is part of any writing project,” Susan Orlean says over coffee on the Valley side of the ...

The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The hardest part of her writing process, Orlean says, is “those first few sentences. They set the tone and the pace, so they’re ...

The writer’s Rudolph Schindler–designed residence is now on the market for just under $7 million.

Susan Orlean, bestselling author of “The Orchid Thief” and “The Library Book,” has written her first memoir, “Joyride,” which describes the arc of her life and career. “The story of my life is the ...

Susan Orlean says the story of my life is the story of my stories. But she's put parts of her own life into a memoir of her career as an esteemed, long-form journalism storyteller - her decades at The ...

S1: Welcome back. You're listening to Kpbs Midday Edition. I'm Jade Hindman. Writer Susan Orlean has been writing for The New Yorker for more than three decades , and rose to fame when her book The ...

If you’ve ever read a Susan Orlean book — “The Orchid Thief,” “ Rin Tin Tin” or “ The Library Book,” say — and didn’t want it to end, here’s good news. There’s more. Her memoir, “Joyride,” a chronicle ...

Orchids. Infernos. Rin Tin Tin. What do these things have in common? They’ve all been the subject of books by Susan Orlean. In her new book ⁠Joyride⁠, she pulls back the curtain on how she does it.

Susan Orlean has an eye for the quirky.As a longtime writer for the New Yorker, she’s specialized in the kinds of stories others don’t write, because they often don’t seem like stories at all until ...

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