My Salinger Year: A Memoir, (Paperback)

from AmberMcWilliams

An engaging and well-told real-life tale of a year in one of New York's big literary agencies... At times the pacing is off (there's a lovely build of tension that never resolves and is very frustrating!) but the writing is warm and funny and humane. A lovely insight into the old-fashioned Agency...

from dele2451

When I first saw the title of this book, I thought the author was either another brash, young egotist or someone pulling a cheap marketing scheme to sell a few extra copies (possibly both) so I almost passed it over. Now that I've completely read it, I understand that it really couldn't be named ...

from etxgardener

In this well-written coming of age memoir, Joanna Rakoff is a somewhat clueless 23-year-old when she quits her Masters program in London and returns to New York City. Almost unbelievably she falls into a job as the assistant to the head of the literary agency who represents J.D. Salinger. Even th...

from hardlyhardy

J.D. Salinger would not have liked Joanna Rakoff's 2014 memoir “My Salinger Year,” but I did. Salinger, like Harper Lee a remarkable writer driven into seclusion by the pressure of early success, was known for his strict control over his life, his privacy, his books and everything else he could c...

from mjspear

Author's recounting of her post-graduate year at a NYC literary agency (aka publisher) in New York city. She's young and idealistic and the "scales fall from her eyes" as she realizes the unique poverty of being under-employed in an expensive city, a less-than-fulfilling relationship, and the lon...