Susan Orlean on the Risky Undertaking

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“It’s a lot safer to do a celebrity profile than to write about a couple of oxen in Cuba.”

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including The Library Book, Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award-winning film Adaptation.