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In 'Joyride,' New Yorker writer Susan Orlean trains her journalist's eye on herself
With best-selling nonfiction books such as "The Orchid Thief" and as a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1992, Susan Orlean has made a successful career out of telling other people's stories.
Now, she tells her own in the memoir "Joyride." She was in Boston for a recent event at WBUR and joined host Deborah Becker in the studio to talk about the book.
This segment aired on November 4, 2025.