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 ...

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 ...

Acclaimed writer Susan Orlean, seated left, prepares to sign one of her books for a reader during a book tour stop at the Cuyahoga County Public Library's Parma-Snow branch in Parma, Ohio on Oct. 23, ...

“I think asking the question ‘who cares?’ is part of any writing project,” Susan Orlean says over coffee on the Valley side of the Hollywood Hills. In her delightfully written new memoir, “Joyride” — ...

Susan Orlean has spent nearly half a century writing about fascinating people, starting in the late 1970s at Portland’s Willamette Week and eventually making her way to The New Yorker, where she’s ...

Kelvin Smith Library will host April Lancaster from the Cleveland Public Library for a discussion on The Library Book by Susan Orlean Wednesday, April 10, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Dampeer Room.

The festival line-up includes authors like Sasha Bonét, Jedidiah Jenkins and Molly Jong-Fast. The authors will offer insights into their books and personal stories during sessions.

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