Now in Paperback: Susan Orlean on Writing for an Audience and the Entrepreneurial Nature of a Writing Career
The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara
November 24, 20231h 4mExplicit
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Show Notes
This episode originally aired as Episode 61 on August 11, 2017.
Susan Orlean is the best selling author of The Library Book, The Orchid Thief, and Rin Tin Tin. She's a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and you can find her on Threads @susanorlean.
In this episode, Susan talks about:
- always having an audience in mind
- having supreme focus
- and needing to see yourself as a business person if you plan on doing this type of work
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