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Susan Orlean has spent over 45 years writing. She’s been at The New Yorker since 1992. Orlean has also contributed to Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vogue, and many others publications.
As an author she wrote The Orchid Thief. In it, she followed an obsessive outlaw who collected rare flowers. The Library Book was a history of LA’s central library and particularly the suspicious fire that nearly burned it down.
Not long ago, Susan had an idea: to write a book about writing. How to do it, what works for her, what doesn’t. And as she put pen to paper that project became bigger. A memoir of her life and career called Joyride.
On Bullseye, she talks about the challenges of turning the lens on herself. Plus, her experience writing about cults and how much she misses the car of her youth: a classic hot as fire Chevy Camaro.
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