Susan Orlean’s THE LIBRARY BOOK
Mark the date! Pre-order from your favorite bookstore now! Susan Orlean’s THE LIBRARY BOOK will be published by Simon & Schuster on October 16.
If you went to BEA this year, you couldn’t miss the banner hanging in the Javits Center’s main hall.
I’m so happy to be helping S&S’s inimitable Anne Tate Pearce with publicity – advance copies have gone out to long lead media and Susan is headed to New Orleans this weekend to confab with librarians from across the country at the American Library Association Conference.
THE LIBRARY BOOK was announced in Entertainment Weekly and three advance quotes have just come in that are 💥💥💥
“This is a book only Susan Orlean could have written. Somehow she manages to transform the story of a library fire into the story of literacy, civil service, municipal infighting and vision, public spaces in an era of increasingly privatization and social isolation, the transformation of Los Angeles from small provincial hamlet to innovative colossus and model of civic engagement—and the central role libraries have always and will always play in the life and health of a bustling democracy. Beyond all that, like any good library, it’s bursting with incredible tales and characters. There could be no better book for the bookish.” —Dave Eggers
“Susan Orlean has long been one of our finest storytellers, and she proves it again with The Library Book. A beautifully written and richly reported account, it sheds new light on a thirty-year-old mystery—and, what’s more, offers a moving tribute to the invaluableness of libraries.”—David Grann
“After reading Susan Orlean’s The Library Book, I’m quite sure I’ll never look at libraries, or librarians, the same way again. This is classic Orlean—an exploration of a devastating fire becomes a journey through a world of infinite richness, populated with unexpected characters doing unexpected things, with unexpected passion.”—Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City, In the Garden of Beasts, and Dead Wake
Keep checking Susan Orleans’ website and follow her on twitter @SusanOrlean for more information and especially details of her two-month-long book tour – which will start, of course!, at the Los Angeles Central Library on October 16. Media: If you need an advance copy or have any questions, just let me know kb (at) broadsidepr (dot) com.
