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.

Curiosity is what drives Susan Orlean, author of books on the trade in orchids (“The Orchid Thief”), the first canine movie star (“Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend”) and the nocturnal portion of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...

When writing about the books of Susan Orlean, it’s hard not to feel like the neurotic Charlie Kaufman character in the film “Adaptation,” sweating in front of his typewriter as he tries to work on a ...

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 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 ...