Last fall, I talked to Susan Orlean about some of her favorite clothing designers for Secret Strategist and saw that she had ...

Susan Orlean has spent a lifetime noticing the little details about others when she writes. The Orchid Thief followed an ...

“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” — ...

The Winter Words series begins at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28, with Susan Orlean talking about her latest book, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The hardest part of her writing process, Orlean says, is “those first few sentences. They set the tone ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." I’ve called Susan Orlean to discuss creativity, but I can’t stop staring at the poster-size playing card ...

Here, in our version of the Sunday circular, we’ve plucked some of our recent favorites: expert-recommended essentials, ...

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 ...

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 ...

1. How to Know If Your Big Idea Is Worth It Susan says the instinct to know whether an idea is worth years of work is “probably the single most important” skill you can develop, whether you’re writing ...