Exploring the Highs and Lows of the Writing Life in Susan Orlean’s Eloquent ‘Joyride’
In case we don’t get the point, Orlean (author of 'The Orchard Thief' and 'The Library Book'), reminds us numerous times that she falls into one of two categories of writers: “those who have something they want to say to the world, and … those who believe the world has something to tell them. I’m wholly of the second sort.”