What is your gift-giving philosophy? Give the very best thing you can think of and then don’t overthink it. You can’t control ...

“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” — ...

"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 ...

Joyride' is a hugely entertaining and engaging account of Orlean’s adventures in writing written in her own imitable and impeccable style ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Season six of SongWriter – the podcast that turns stories into songs – launches with the return of an old friend: bestselling author and New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean. Six years ago the very ...

Eric J. Lawrence: Hi, I’m Eric J. Lawrence and I am here with Susan Orlean, a long time staff writer for The New Yorker and a bestselling author of eight books including The Orchid Thief, which ...