Susan Orlean Knows Shes Had a Charmed Career

News Source : Vulture
News Summary
- Susan Orlean is one of the most prolific and successful nonfiction writers of her generation.
- Her latest book, Joyride, is a memoir.
- It’s both the most personal one she has published and a romp through a thriving media landscape now lost.
- “I dreamed of becoming a writer, and then I became one,” she writes in Joyride’S intro, “and now I want to tell you every day why I wake up amazed by that fact”
Once youve interviewed as many people as Susan Orlean has, you start to crave what she calls counterprogramming. Every magazine profile has its setting; every setting suggests activities that a journ [+7544 chars]