Through her memoir Joyride and the highly fictionalized portrayal of her in the film Adaptation, discuss the life of Susan Orlean, best known as the author of The Orchid Thief. Joyride takes readers back to a bygone era of journalism as Orlean conjures new story ideas, chases every possible lead, connects with editors, and constructs the perfect first paragraph. The memoir also invites readers into Orlean’s personal story of the painful collapse of her first marriage, falling in love again, becoming a mother, and traveling to Hollywood to watch Meryl Streep play a version of her in an Oscar-nominated movie about the process of turning Orlean’s best-selling nonfiction into a screenplay. The memoir is available in print or as an audio book; the film is available for streaming on Amazon Prime.
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