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Why You Should Read This: ‘The Library Book’

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By Susan Orlean, David Ulin
| Alta Journal Verified
Susan Orlean’s The Library Book is something of a literary hermit crab. Constructed around one of Los Angeles’s greatest civic tragedies, the April 29, 1986, fire that destroyed or damaged more than a million volumes in the Central Library downtown, it also operates as a vernacular history of the city’s library system and, through that lens, of Los Angeles itself.
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Why I Write: To Take You to Places You Might Not Go

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By Susan Orlean
| Alta Journal Verified
Experience has a way of evaporating. A moment occurs, and it immediately sprouts wings and flutters off to be forgotten. But writing can change that. Writing is the pin that tacks that moment to a board, keeping it in place rather than letting it flutter away. Writing is adhesive. Writing defeats time—the erasure of time. Even as a little kid, I was distressed to realize how relentlessly time moved forward, sweeping along with it every bit of life.
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In Defense of Dumb Choices

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By Susan Orlean
| Wordy Bird
I packed in a frenzy for my current trip, partly because I booked the trip in a bit of a frenzy. I was invited to a birthday party in New York that I didn’t want to miss, and then—logic being what it is—figured that as long as I was already on the East Coast, I might as well continue on to London. (For those of you not following closely, my travels to London are not casual; I’m writing a book that centers on London and I have tons of research to do on site.) So greetings from the United Kingdom.
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