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” — ...

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 ...

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

"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 ...

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, ...

Before the bestsellers, before one of her bestsellers became a movie, before Meryl Streep (!) played her in that movie ...author Susan Orlean started her career in Portland, writing for the Willamette ...