Everyday commonalities and the anomalies burrowing within them are like catnip to best-selling writer Susan Orlean. The author of 12 award-winning books (among them, “The Orchid Thief,” “The Library Book,” “Saturday Night” and her new memoir “Joyride”) is a regular columnist for The New Yorker.

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Embarking on a fall 2025 book tour with the memoir she says was driven by time for reflection during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and upon realizing “Orchid Thief” had reached its 25th anniversary, Orlean admits in a recent conversation that her curiosity is intrinsic: the irresistible force that since childhood has powered her every move, thought, decision, declaration, deed and misdeed.

Orlean will appear in the Oakland hills starting at 7 p.m. Oct. 30 in the Montclair Presbyter

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