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Overheard with Evan Smith

Susan Orlean

OVERHEARD WITH EVAN SMITH delivers free flowing and smart conversations with today’s most fascinating public figures. We speak with politicians, authors, artists, actors, journalists, and business leaders - conversations with the country’s most interesting people, always with an eye toward the news, and always with a sense of humor.

Susan Orlean

Season 2 Episode 9 | 26m 46s | CC

Susan Orlean is a veteran and much-loved New Yorker magazine writer whose credits include The Orchid Thief, Saturday Night, the anthology The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-up and the children's book Lazy Little Loafers. Her latest book — and it is so incredibly good — is Rin Tin Tin: The Life and The Legend.

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Support for Overheard with Evan Smith is provided by: Hillco Partners, The Mattson McHale Foundation, mfi Foundation, and Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation

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