Joanna Rakoff, "My Salinger Year"
July 23, 2015
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as posted by the channelRakoff’s second book is at once a picture of the New York publishing scene on the eve of the digital age, the personal story of a young writer finding her voice, and a unique profile of J.D. Salinger. Rakoff, who after the experiences recounted here went on to write the acclaimed novel A Fortunate Age, was a budding poet with a narcissistic boyfriend and a threadbare apartment when she found a job with Salinger’s literary agent. Taking charge of the reclusive writer’s fan mail, Rakoff became a kind of epistolary go-between, responding to readers on Salinger’s behalf.
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