Book Exploder: Susan Orlean - The Library Book

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  You're listening to Book Exploder,

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  where authors break down a passage from their work to show us how they write.

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  I'm Rishi Keshirwe.

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  And I'm Susan Orlean.

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  I've been making Song Exploder since 2014,

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  talking to other musicians about the creative process that went into the making of one of their songs.

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  And a few years ago, I thought these kinds of conversations could be extended outside of music.

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  And I brought this idea to Susan to help me bring it to the world of literature.

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  So on Book Exploder,

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  each episode features an author delving into one small section from one of their books.

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  There's so much to talk about in a book, and there's so much that goes into writing one.

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  Years of work, often.

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  But by zooming in on one passage in detail,

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  you can really learn something about how an author approaches their work and solves problems.

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  Those granular decisions that they make really let you learn something concrete about how their creative mind thinks.

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  Susan's a New York Times bestselling author herself and a staff writer for The New Yorker.

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  And for this miniseries, she's interviewed an incredible set of authors.

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  These are some of my favorite writers in the world.

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  Hi, my name is Min Jin Lee, and I'm the author of Pachinko.

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  Hi, I'm James McBride, author of Deacon King Kong.

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