“ Joyride might be the best craft book on writing you will ever read,” said in The Boston Globe . Though Susan Orlean’s latest is written as a memoir, it’s the memoir of a journalist who dreamed of telling great stories and achieved great success doing so, and “there is so much brilliant advice in the first half that I yellow-highlighted nearly every page.” Orlean is a veteran New Yorker staff writer who is best known for The Orchid Thief , a book about an unlikely obsessive, and her tips defy convention. “Write about what you don’t know, she says, over and over.” Also, find a topic that intrigues you, and dive in until you find a story you can’t resist sharing. “The message is not just to follow your bliss,” said in The Minnesota Star Tribune , “but to follow your bliss wi

See Full Page