At the end of January 2026, Susan Orlean quietly listed her Rudolph Schindler–designed home for $6.995 million with Carolwood ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...