What's happening with Susan?

This page is for letting you know about my goings-on: appearances, interviews, and news.

The Front Page News

Chronogram

LOCAL GIRL MAKES GOOD: A regional arts and culture magazine that I like a lot, Chronogram, just ran a profile of me here.

Kudos to writer Nina Shengold and photographer Jen May -- it's never easy to read a profile of yourself (let alone look at a picture!) and feel it's accurate and insightful; they both did a terrific job, in my humble opinion. The magazine is very well-done; we're lucky here in upstate New York to have a lot of thriving independent publications; not sure how we got so lucky, but I hope it continues this way...

New Yorker profile

Hey, take a look: The New Yorker now has online profiles of most of its writers and links to most of the writers' pieces. Here's mine.

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Lazy Little Loafers

Hey, great news from Germany today: "Lazy Little Loafers by Susan Orlean, illustrated by G. Brian Karas published by Abrams Books, is one of the 250 outstanding new international books for children and young adults that have been selected for The White Ravens 2009 from the thousands of books that our library received as review copies from publishers, authors, illustrators, and organisations from all over the world within the last year."
The White Ravens are an organization of the International Youth Library of Munich, Germany. Yay!

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Catch Me if You Can

Follow me on the road -- or better yet, stop by and say hi! Click on the event for more info.

Talk, Talk

Talking About Bookmaking

I recently participated in a discussion with Said Sayrafiezadeh about the process of turning a magazine piece into a book. You can watch our talk below.

Granta discussion with Susan Orlean and Said Sayrafiezadeh from Granta magazine on Vimeo.

Texas Book Festival

I was in Austin, Texas recently for the Texas Book Festival, where I was asked to talk about my experience with ADAPTATION and writing THE ORCHID THIEF. Hear about how the whole movie almost didn't happen.

BEA Interview - Part 2

Here's the second part of my interview with Publishers Weekly at BEA.

BEA Interview - Part 1

Back in the spring I did an interview with the Publishers Weekly Book Maven at Book Expo America. It was a fun interview, and gives you a peek at the inspiration for my children's book, Lazy Little Loafers.

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