Susan Orlean

In collaboration with The Big Picture House, Nightbird Books will be screening the 2002 film, Adaptation, starring Nicholas Cage, Chris Cooper, and Meryl Streep and adapted from the novel, The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean. Since this movie comes from a book, we will have the book available all month and have an opportunity to discuss it at the screening. While his latest movie Being John Malkovich is in production, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is hired by Valerie Thomas to adapt Susan Orlean's non-fiction book The Orchid Thief for the screen. Thomas bought the movie rights before Orlean wrote the book, when it was only an article in The New Yorker. The book details the story of rare orchid hunter John Laroche, whose passion for orchids and horticulture made Orlean discover passion and beauty for the first time in her life. Charlie wants to be faithful to the book in his adaptation, but despite Laroche himself being an interesting character in his own right, Charlie is having difficulty finding enough material in Laroche to fill a movie, while equally not having enough to say cinematically about the beauty of orchids. At the same time, Charlie is going through other issues in his life. His insecurity as a person doesn't allow him to act upon his feelings for Amelia Kavan, who is interested in him as a man. And Charlie's twin brother,... Trailer

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susan orlean reads from Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend.

Wednesday, October 17 at 7:30PM Cost: $20 for adults; $18 for students and seniors Columbus Museum of Art 480 E. Broad Street “An astonishing story…” - Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) In, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the LegendCleveland native, New Yorker writer, and author of the bestseller, The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean has written a love letter to the star of the silent screen and TV with some 40 million fans worldwide. Orlean provides a detailed account of Rinty’s life and times, while also discussing the emotional connections people make with animals. The book chronicles stories of a group of Rin Tin Tin devotees, including the owner of the original dog, using her keen reporter’s to reveal unusual yet compelling details about these people and their love for Rinty. Susan lives in New York State. (astults)… (more)

Pickford Film Center & Village Books present "Writers in the Limelight." Join us for the screening of lectures and presentations from some of the most celebrated voices in the humanities, arts, and sciences. In conversation with Alexandra Horowitz, bestselling author of Inside of a Dog, Susan Orlean discusses her book Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend in this special movie showing at the Pickford Limelight Cinema. (Author is not attending this event).

A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, Susan Orlean won widespread fame for her 1998 New York Times bestseller, The Orchid Thief, about a real-life renegade plant dealer in the swamps of South Florida. The book was the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning movie Adaptation, directed by Spike Jonze. Orlean is the author of seven other books, including Animalish and Saturday Night. In Rin Tin Tin, Orlean reconstructs Corporal Lee Duncan’s serendipitous 1918 rescue of the German shepherd who would become his beloved companion and an enduring American icon. Bestselling author Rebecca Skloot calls the book, "an incredible story about America, the human-animal bond, and the countless ways we would be lost without dogs by our side, on our screens, and in our books."

This on-screen author talk will be showing at the Pickford Film Center's Limelight Cinema. The program includes the 65 minute feature "The Return of Rin Tin Tin" (1947) starring Robert Blake. Village Books is pleased to co-sponsor this event and will have Susan Orlean's books for sale at the cinema the day of the event. Tickets are available through the Pickford Film Center.

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Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has written profiles, Reporter at Large, columns, Talk of the Town, and Popular Chronicles on subjects ranging from taxidermy to umbrella inventors to figure skater Tonya Harding. Prior to joining The New Yorker, Orlean was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and at Vogue, where she wrote about figures in both the music and fashion industries. She has also contributed to Esquire, Smithsonian, and New York Times Magazine. In addition to her magazine work, Orlean is the author of seven books including My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who¹s Been Everywhere (2004); The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People (2000); Saturday Night (1990); and Lazy Little Loafers (2008). In 1999, she published The Orchid Thief, a best-selling narrative about orchid poachers in Florida. The Orchid Thief was made into the movie, "Adaptation," written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. She is currently writing a book about the dog actor Rin Tin Tin. Susan received her B.A. with honors from the University of Michigan in 1976 and attended Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow in 2004. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and son. (libri_amor)… (more)

Susan Orlean

Join us for an afternoon with Susan Orlean and G. Brian Karas, author and illustrator of the new picture book Lazy Little Loafers.
Susan Orlean is a staff writer for the New Yorker. She is the author of several books, including The Orchid Thief, which was inspiration for the movie Adaption. She currently resides in Pine Plains, NY and Los Angeles, CA.G. Brian Karas has written and illustrated several award-winning children's books, including On Earth and Home on the Bayou: A Cowboy's Story, a Boston Globe Horn Book Honor Book. The picture books he has illustrated include Are You Going to Be Good?, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book. Mr. Karas lives in Rhinebeck, New York.

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