Susan Orlean, THE LIBRARY BOOK

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The legendary Susan Orlean is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of eight books including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award-winning film Adaptation. Her latest book, The Library Book, was nominated for the Andrew Carnegie nonfiction prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, which is no surprise to anyone who has read her work! This latest work of nonfiction is about a fire that ravaged the LA Public Library in the 1980s, but it's really an investigation into human behavior. Susan and I talked about everything from the loss of her mother, who used to take her to libraries, to how she hides out from her son to write! Plus she discusses some very exciting new projects.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the Webby-nominated podcast.
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0:51.8	Susan Orlean, who is the staff writer at the New Yorker magazine and the author of eight books, including Rin Tintin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award-winning film adaptation.
1:03.2	Her latest book, the library book, was nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Nonfiction Prize and the Los Angeles Times book prize.
1:09.5	She currently splits her time between
1:10.9	upstate New York and Los Angeles. Welcome, Susan. Thanks for coming on Mom's Don't
1:14.4	have time to read books. I'm thrilled to be with you. Especially on a Saturday. This is like
1:19.3	a huge, you know, very nice thing you're doing, so thank you. Oh, it's great. It's actually a great
1:25.3	way to get yourself up and out on a Saturday, right?
1:28.7	So you've written a million amazing things. Let's talk about the library book first.
1:33.4	So what inspired you to write the library book and tell listeners who might not know what it's about?
1:38.3	The library book is a nonfiction book that actually has several narrative threads.
1:45.0	On one level, it was a book in which I wanted to explore
1:49.7	what the daily life of a library was all about.
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