Austin-based Literati is launching five celebrity-branded subscription book clubs, curated by Stephen Curry, Malala Yousafzai, Sir Richard Branson, Susan Orlean, and the Joseph Campbell Foundation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Emily St. John Mandel, Susan Orlean, T.C Boyle, Marlon James and others share apocalypse reading picks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-05-13 18:56:28 UTC ]
This week on The Maris Review, Susan Orlean joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her latest book, The Library Book, now available in paperback from Simon & Schuster. On how fire has shaped California: Maris Kreizman: A chilling thing that I realized when we first talked about the book is that you... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-19 09:48:21 UTC ]
In her research for "The Library Book," Susan Orlean was surprised to learn how many people call the Los Angeles Library on a daily basis with outlandish questions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-26 21:09:36 UTC ]
In her research for “The Library Book,” Susan Orlean was surprised to learn how many people call the Los Angeles Library on a daily basis with outlandish questions. Some people want help cheating on crossword puzzles. Others have more personal queries. “There is a guy who calls the library... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-26 20:35:00 UTC ]
The Los Angeles Times Book Club is reading "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean. Here's an excerpt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-19 10:00:08 UTC ]
The Los Angeles Times Book Club is reading "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean. Here’s an excerpt. The opposite of a sensory-deprivation tank might be to spend a Monday morning in the library’s InfoNow Department. The phone rings with that weird blooping electronic tone all day long, and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-19 10:00:00 UTC ]
Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. We caught up with bestselling author Susan Orlean ahead of her June 25 visit with the Los Angeles Times Book Club to ask about her current books, binges and guilty pleasures. Here’s what she said: Reading: “Barbarian Days” by... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-15 13:00:00 UTC ]
Just in time for summer reading, "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean is the L.A. Times Book Club's first selection and community read. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-08 13:00:00 UTC ]
Susan Orlean, Jeff Kinney and Ijeoma Oluo have their to-be-read stacks ready to go. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-05-23 13:57:00 UTC ]
Hello! I’m books editor Carolyn Kellogg with this week’s books newsletter from the L.A. Times. THE BIG STORY Although Susan Orlean is a staff writer for the New Yorker, she lives in Los Angeles part-time, and for the last six years has been writing a book that investigates a mystery many of us... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Among this week’s headlines, Susan Orlean’s forthcoming ‘love letter’ to libraries; Tor officials brush off librarian concerns over ebook lending; And why it’s never too late to become a reader. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
On the “Books, Books and More Books” section of Susan Orlean's website, you can find information about her acclaimed nonfiction works, her children’s book, and the cookbook she co-wrote with Cooper Gillespie, who is her dog. What you cannot find is anything about Susan Orlean’s diet book. In... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]