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An Afternoon with Susan Orlean

2021-11-14 14:00:00 2021-11-14 15:00:00 America/Chicago An Afternoon with Susan Orlean Presenting New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean. Fayetteville Public Library - Event Center

Sunday, November 14
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2021-11-14 14:00:00 2021-11-14 15:00:00 America/Chicago An Afternoon with Susan Orlean Presenting New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean. Fayetteville Public Library - Event Center

Presenting New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean.

Fayetteville Public Library is proud to present New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean.

Susan Orlean has been called “a national treasure” by The Washington Post. Her deeply moving explorations of American stories, both familiar and obscure, have earned her a reputation as one of America’s most distinctive journalistic voices. A staff writer for The New Yorker for over twenty years and a former contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Vogue, she has been praised as “an exceptional essayist” (Publishers Weekly) and a writer who “approaches her subjects with intense curiosity and fairness” (Bookmarks).

Her latest work is the instant New York Times bestseller "The Library Book", an exploration of the history, power, and future of these endangered institutions. The Library Book is told through the lens of Orlean’s quest to solve a notorious cold case: who set fire to the Los Angeles Public Library in 1986, ultimately destroying 400,000 books? The Library Book was named one of both The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2018 and The Washington Post’s Best Books of 2018, and was awarded the California Book Award and Marfield Prize for Arts Writing. Orlean will adapt The Library Book for a forthcoming television series with Paramount TV.

Books will be available for sale, and a book signing will follow the author talk.

This event is free to attend but for planning purposes we ask that you register. Registering will not guarantee a space, so we recommend arriving early to ensure your seat. 

AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Author Talks & Lectures |

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