Susie Orman Schnall

Sep 27, 2024 | mahoningmatters.com | Simon Van Booy |Susie Orman Schnall |Rachel Khong |Lisa Barr

Welcome back, bibliophiles! FIRST Book Club (a.k.a. FFW Book Club) is here with a wide variety of book recommendations for September 27 to October 10. As we get ready to enter the crisp autumn months, we are looking forward to more time spent at home—and more time cozied up with excellent reads. From searing suspense to charming lit fic, mind-bending family sagas and more, we have an array of book recs (new releases, recent releases and older releases!) fit for every type of reader.

Jul 5, 2024 | bust.com | Susie Orman Schnall

2 A man who doesn’t need any new people learning his name said in a commencement speech recently that he believes the majority of the female graduates he was addressing “are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.” And, get this, he quoted Taylor Swift while doing so. Now, I have nothing against women who are excited about becoming mothers.

Jun 10, 2024 | danspapers.com | Annabel Monaghan |Julie Satow |Susie Orman Schnall |Timothy Bolger

A group of novelists and non-fiction book authors from the Hamptons who all released their latest page-turners on the same day — June 4 — are collaborating to help each other promote their work. Instead of competing in the typically cut-throat world of publishing, it’s women supporting women, a shared devotion to a common goal, the anti-feud offering readers new selections spanning genres from memoir to mystery, contemporary to rom-com.

Jun 4, 2024 | booksbywomen.org | Susie Orman Schnall

by Susie Orman Schnall, author of ANNA BRIGHT IS HIDING SOMETHINGIn Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert talks about how ideas can be understood as living things. That a stagnant idea in one author’s imagination can “travel” to another author to become fully realized. Such was the case when Gilbert struggled with an idea for a novel set in the Amazon (jungle, not book warehouse). That idea eventually became Patchett’s State of Wonder. That’s certainly one way for an author to get an idea.

Jun 4, 2024 | bookshop.org | Susie Orman Schnall

"Fans of Hulu's The Dropout about Elizabeth Holmes will love this timely, gripping, and meticulously researched novel that knocked my socks off."--Annabel Monaghan, best-selling author of Same Time Next Summer "Fans of the Hulu streaming miniseriesThe Dropout, about the scandal involving biotech company Theranos, will enjoy this page-turner by Schnall . . .