Susan Orlean, author of "The Library Book"

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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We're taking a look back at some of our favorite moments from over two decades worth of Bullseye episodes. In 2018, we caught up with journalist and author Susan Orlean. Susan's an accomplished author who's written for The New Yorker for thirty years. Her work has also appeared in Esquire and Vogue. She's the author of 8 books including; Saturday Night, My Kind of Place and The Orchid Thief. Susan chats with us about her most recent book, The Library Book, which is out now in paperback.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.7	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:21.4	We're replaying a couple of our favorite interviews with Bullseye guests from the past and
0:25.4	next up is the great Susan Orleene from 2018.
0:29.6	Susan is a staff writer at the New Yorker.
0:32.2	Her work has also appeared in Vogue and Esquire in this American life.
0:37.0	She's the author of eight books, covering topics like New England, Saturday Night across
0:42.1	America, and people who are fanatical about orchids.
0:46.9	That last book, The Orcid Thief ended up being the basis of the Academy Award-nominated
0:52.2	film, Adaptation.
0:54.4	Susan is also a disarming interview, a meticulous researcher, and a beautiful writer.
0:59.9	These days she lives here in Los Angeles most of the time, and being an author and reader,
1:04.8	she has visited the beautiful historic central library, dozens and dozens of times.
1:11.4	Her latest book is about that library and its history, and the devastating fire that almost
1:17.0	demolished it in 1986.
1:19.6	The book is also kind of a pan to libraries everywhere.
1:23.4	What they mean to her, to us, and why every library is a vital institution.
1:28.6	She called it the library book.
1:31.0	I really love it.
1:32.4	Okay, let's get into our interview.
1:37.4	Susan Orleene, welcome back to Bullseye.
1:42.8	Always happy to see you.
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