Podcast appearances and mentions of joanna rakoff

Totally Booked: LIVE! In this special episode of the podcast (in-person at the Whitby Hotel with a live audience!), Zibby welcomes editor Michele Filgate and contributors Joanna Rakoff and Kelly McMasters to discuss their moving and deeply relatable new essay collection, WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON'T TALK ABOUT. Michele shares how her viral essay inspired the original mother-themed anthology, and why a companion book about fathers felt essential. Joanna opens up about uncovering long-held family secrets and the mythologies we inherit, while Kelly reflects on intergenerational parenting, memory, and the unspoken ways love is shown.Purchase on Bookshop: https://bit.ly/4jn1U9EShare, rate, & review the podcast, and follow Zibby on Instagram @zibbyowens! Now there's more! Subscribe to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books on Acast+ and get ad-free episodes. https://plus.acast.com/s/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After the attacks of October 7, 2023, Zibby Owens, the bestselling author, podcaster, publisher, and book influencer reached out to Jewish writers and advocates and asked them to contribute essays to an anthology, “On Being Jewish Now.” In the essay collection, 75 writers share heartfelt reflections that reveal the Jewish experience across a range of snapshots—faith, family, food, and a shared history of both joy and trauma stretching across millennia. In this powerful and moving episode, host Katie Fogarty is joined by Zibby Owens and two essay contributors, authors Dara Levan (It Could be Worse) and Joanna Rakoff (My Salinger Year). Each shares the backstory behind their essay and the complexities of being Jewish in a post-October 7th world. Vulnerable and open-hearted, this episode reminds us of the power of sharing our stories. SHOW NOTES + TRANSCRIPT acertainagepod.com FOLLOW A CERTAIN AGE: Instagram Facebook LinkedIn GET INBOX INSPO: Sign up for our newsletter AGE BOLDLY We share new episodes, giveaways, links we love, and midlife resources Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colombe Schneck is the author of Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories, available from Penguin Press. Translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer. Schneck is documentary film director, a journalist, and the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction. She has received prizes from the Académie française, Madame Figaro, and the Société des gens de lettres. The recipient of a scholarship from the Villa Medici in Rome as well as a Stendhal grant from the Institut français, she was born and educated in Paris, where she still lives.  Lauren Elkin is the author of several books, including Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art and Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, The New York Times, Granta, Harper's, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, and Frieze, among other publications. She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. After twenty years in Paris, she now lives in London.  Natasha Lehrer is a writer, translator, editor, and teacher. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Guardian, The Observer (London), The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Frieze, and other journals. As literary editor of the Jewish Quarterly she has worked with writers including Deborah Levy, George Prochnik, and Joanna Rakoff. She has contributed to several books, most recently Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism. She has translated over two dozen books, including works by Georges Bataille, Robert Desnos, Amin Maalouf, Vanessa Springora, and Chantal Thomas. In 2016, she won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger. She lives in Paris. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram  TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

‘There was no voicemail. I was the voicemail.' In this out-of-series special episode of the Slightly Foxed podcast Joanna Rakoff, author of the 2008 literary smash hit My Salinger Year (released as a Slightly Foxed limited-edition hardback in March 2024), joins us down the line from her home in Massachusetts for a conversation with our podcast presenter Rosie Goldsmith. From their respective sides of the Atlantic, Rosie and Joanna take a trip back to New York in the freezing winter of 1996 when Joanna Rakoff, aged 24, landed her first job as assistant at one of the city's oldest and most distinguished literary agencies. No matter that she didn't even know what a literary agent was and had lied about her typing speed. She'd also led her parents to believe she was living with a female college friend when she was in fact sharing an unheated Brooklyn apartment with a penniless and unpublished Marxist novelist whose sole and very part-time job was watering the plants at Goldman Sachs.  Rosie and Joanna take us deep into the strange, time-warped world she's strayed into at The Agency, with its Selectric typewriters, filing cabinets and carbon paper, and into her unusual relationship with its best-known author J. D. Salinger, to whose mountain of fan mail it was Joanna's job to reply. Salinger was famously reclusive, wanting nothing to do with his fans and Joanna was supposed to reply with a pro forma letter. But the more heart-wrenching the letters she read, the more she found herself pulled into the senders' lives and, unbeknownst to her terrifying boss (‘whiskey mink, enormous sunglasses, a long cigarette holder'), she replied to every single one and sometimes, fatally, enclosed a personal note herself. Joanna describes how My Salinger Year came to be, from a gem of an idea explored in the confessional 2011 BBC Sounds documentary Hey Mr Salinger to a best-selling memoir that inspired a Hollywood film starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley, and how, when Salinger died, she turned to her bookshelves for comfort. Now, twenty years after its first publication, My Salinger Year joins the much loved Slightly Foxed Editions list of memoirs by such authors as Hilary Mantel, Jessica Mitford, Roald Dahl, Graham Greene and many others.  For episode show notes, please see the Slightly Foxed website. Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major by Bach Hosted by Rosie Goldsmith

In this week's episode, Kayla and Taylor discuss J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Topics include this being much more than a “whiny boy book”, the seedy side of New York, and our recommendations for better high school English classes. Also, Kayla reads a list of things Holden hates.This week's drink: The Rye in the Catcher via Tequila MockingbirdINGREDIENTS:2 oz rye whiskey1 oz pineapple juice½ oz lemon juice1 (12 oz) bottle ginger beerINSTRUCTIONS:Add whiskey, pineapple juice, and lemon juice to a glass with ice. Top with ginger beer and stir.Current reads, recommendations, and links:My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff (check out the movie too!)The Book That No One Wanted to Read by Richard AyoadeThe Adventures of Miss Petitfour by Anne MichaelsThe Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days by Helen RebanksWith Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023 by Rick BassSubscribe to our Patreon, where we discuss “lower-case-l” literature and have a silly good time doing it! Follow us on Instagram @literatureandlibationspod.Visit our website: literatureandlibationspod.com to submit feedback, questions, or your own takes on what we are reading. You can also see what we are reading for future episodes! You can email us at literatureandlibationspod@gmail.com.Please leave us a review and/or rating! It really helps others find our podcast…and it makes us happy!Purchase books via bookshop.org or check them out from your local public library. Join us next time as we discuss The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff.

We hear from two listeners today: The first worries about narrative dissonance and his ability to spot it, the second is aching for a room of her own. Authors Sara Johnson Allen, Cara Wood, and Joanna Rakoff join us.Watch a recording of our live webinar here. The audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.Sara Johnson Allen is a professor and author whose debut novel, Down Here We Come Up, was the winner of the 2022 Big Moose Prize from Black Lawrence Press. She is currently finishing a second novel and starting a book of nonfiction about her 17th century home in coastal Massachusetts. Cara Wood is a professional writer and marketer with a master's degree from Clark University. A graduate of GrubStreet Novel Incubator, her fiction is set in a future only slightly more terrifying than the present. Joanna Rakoff is the author of the bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the novel A Fortunate Age. Photo by Şahin Sezer Dinçer on Unsplash  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 7amnovelist.substack.com

We hear from a short story writer today dipping her toes into her first novel and having trouble getting her characters to commit. How is character development different between a novel and short story? And how can you wrangle with a character who suffers from a short attention span? We've got authors Christine Murphy, Emily Ross, and Joanna Rakoff to help us out.Watch a recording of our live webinar here. The audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform.Christine Murphy is a graduate of Grubstreet's Novel Incubator program. Her novel, Notes on Surviving the Fire, is forthcoming in Spring 2025. Emily Ross is the author of Half in Love with Death, an International Thriller Writers Thriller Awards finalist for best young adult novel, and she's currently shopping her second novel The Black Sea, an adult mystery/thriller set in her hometown of Quincy MA.Johanna Rakoff is the author of the bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the novel A Fortunate Age.  Photo by Andrew Seaman on Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 7amnovelist.substack.com

D. J. Taylor, literary critic, novelist and Whitbread Prize-winning author of the definitive Orwell: The Life and its highly acclaimed sequel The New Life, and Masha Karp, Orwell scholar, former Russian features editor at the BBC World Service and author of George Orwell and Russia, join the Slightly Foxed team at the kitchen table in Hoxton Square to take a fresh and deeply personal look at the life and work of George Orwell.  The man who wrote Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four defies categorization. In this quarter's literary podcast David and Masha sift through newly discovered stashes of letters written by Orwell in the 1930s, and share personal recollections from his adopted son Richard and other living members of his inner circle to tease out fact from fiction and explore the legacy of Orwell's life and work.  We start with the chance discovery by a Bonham's auctioneer of nineteen letters from Orwell to a girlfriend, found in a tatty old handbag on the floor of a mouse-ridden woodshed (thrillingly packaged in a nondescript envelope labelled ‘Burn after my death'). Then we're off on a journey through the many-faceted romantic, literary, social and political aspects of Orwell's short life, from the years when he was flitting between jobs and relationships in the small coastal town of Southwold and living down and out in Paris, to his death from tuberculosis in 1950 via his life-altering experience in Spain as a Republican volunteer against Franco. David and Masha draw us deep into Orwell's world – a place of gangsters with gramophones, banned books, vanishing documents, encounters with KGB spies and yet more old girlfriends appearing out of the shadows with revelatory letters – and discuss the long reach of his influence on contemporary literature and political thinking. Books mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. Subscribe to Slightly Foxed magazine D. J. Taylor, Orwell: A New Life (0:30) George Orwell, A Homage to Catalonia (7:27) Masha Karp, George Orwell and Russia (15:10) George Orwell, Burmese Days (31:46) George Orwell, Animal Farm (31:47) George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (31:48) George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter (34:04) George Orwell, Why I Write (38:22) George Orwell, ‘Confessions of a Book Reviewer', Essays (39:56) George Orwell, ‘Dickens', Essays (43:45) George Orwell, ‘Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool', Essays (44:28) Nicholas Fisk, Pig Ignorant (45:25) Joanna Rakoff, My Salinger Year (45:42) James Aldred, Goshawk Summer (49:10) Edward Chisholm, A Waiter in Paris (51:38) George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (51:50) Emilé Zola, The Drinking Den (53:18) Claire Wilcox, Patch Work (55:11) Related Slightly Foxed articles The Nightmare of Room 101, Christopher Rush on George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Issue 69 Betrayals, Christopher Rush on George Orwell, Animal Farm, Issue 65 An Extraordinary Ordinary Bloke, Brandon Robshaw on George Orwell, Essays, Issue 56 Pox Britanica, Sue Gee on George Orwell, Burmese Days, Issue 40 All Washed Up, Christopher Robbins on George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Issue 21 The Road to Room 101, Gordon Bowker on George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Issue 11 Other links The Slightly Foxed Calendar 2024 Readers' Day 2023  The George Orwell Foundation Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major by Bach Produced by Podcastable

Joanna Rakoff discusses the first pages of her memoir, My Salinger Year, how she approached the writing through the vantage point of a novelist, her use of the royal we, her poetry background and how it influenced her sentences, and her advice to begin your book with what you're most passionate about, in whatever form that may be.Rakoff's first pages can be found here.Help local bookstores and our authors by buying this book on Bookshop.Click here for the audio/video version of this interview.The above link will be available for 48 hours. Missed it? The podcast version is always available, both here and on your favorite podcast platform.Here are Joanna's First Pages teaching notes (hint: they're great!)Joanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the bestselling novel A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction and the Elle Readers' Prize. Rakoff's books have been translated into twenty languages, and the film adaptation of My Salinger Year opened in theaters worldwide in 2021 and is now streaming. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Sewanee, Bread Loaf, Jerome Foundation, Authors' Guild, PEN, Ragdale Foundation, Art OMI/Ledig House, and Saltonstall; and has taught at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, and Aspen Words. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, O: The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, Elle, Porter, and elsewhere, and her new memoir, The Fifth Passenger, is forthcoming from Little, Brown in 2024. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 7amnovelist.substack.com

Good morning everyone. I just want to tell you about what we're doing next on the 7am novelist, which is something I'm lamely calling “Passages of Summer.” But the upcoming episodes this summer won't be so lame, because we're going to be talking about one of the most difficult parts of a story or novel or memoir to get right: The first pages. I'll be interviewing over forty writers as we read and analyze the beginning pages of their novels in hopes of helping you with your own. We'll have Idra Novey, Caroline Leavitt, Paul Rudnick, Amina Gautier, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, and many more. Take a look at our schedule below:PASSAGES OF SUMMER ‘23 RELEASE SCHEDULEAll episodes will be pre-recorded and released at 7am EST. They can be found on 7amnovelist.substack.com and your favorite podcast platforms.May 25: Elizabeth Graver on KantikaMay 29: Vanessa Hua on Forbidden CityMay 31: Marisa Crane on I Keep My Exoskeletons to MyselfJune 2: Jane Roper on Society of Shame~~~June 5: Nathaniel Miller on The Memoirs of Stockholm SvenJune 7: Juliette Fay on The Half of ItJune 9: VV Ganeshananthan on Brotherless Night~~~June 12: Jasmin Hakes on HulaJune 14: Julie Carrick Dalton on The Last BeekeeperJune 16: Amina Gautier on “Lost and Found” in The Loss of All Lost Things~~~June 19: Henriette Lazaridis on Terra NovaJune 21: Frances de Pontes Peebles on The Air You BreatheJune 23: BA Shapiro on Metropolis~~~June 26: Daphne Kalotay on “Relativity” in The Archivists: StoriesJune 28: Wanda Morris on Anywhere You RunJune 30: Idra Novey on Take What You Need~~~July 3: Aaron Hamburger on Hotel CubaJuly 5: Caroline Leavitt on Days of WonderJuly 7: Joanna Rakoff on My Salinger Year~~~July 10: Rachel Barenbaum on Atomic AnnaJuly 12: Alix Ohlin on Dual CitizensJuly 14: Maya Shanbhag Lang on What We Carry~~~July 17: Kirthana Ramisetti on Advika and the Hollywood WivesJuly 19: EB Moore on Loose in the Bright FantasticJuly 21: Allegra Goodman on Sam~~~July 24: Kelly Ford on The HuntJuly 26: Alta Ifland on Speaking to No. 4July 28: Suzanne Berne on The Blue Window~~~July 31: Neema Avashia on Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain PlaceAugust 2: Jessica Keener on Night SwimAugust 4: Hank Phillippi Ryan on The House Guest~~~August 7: Nancy Crochiere on GracelandAugust 9: Elizabeth Silver on The MajorityAugust 11: Alyssa Songsiridej on Little Rabbit~~~August 14: Sara Johnson Allen on Down Here We Come UpAugust 16: Julie Gerstenblatt on Daughters of NantucketAugust 18: Paul Rudnick on Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style~~~August 21: Rachel Kadish on The Weight of InkAugust 23: Angel Di Zhang on The Light of Eternal SpringAugust 25: Charlotte Rixon on The One That Got Away~~~August 28: Virginia Pye on The Literary Undoing of Victoria SwannAugust 30: Isa Arsén on Shoot the MoonSeptember 1: Shilpi Suneja on House of CaravansSeptember 4: David Heska Wanbli Weiden on Winter Counts This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 7amnovelist.substack.com

I loved connecting with guest Joanna Rakoff on today's Every Soul Has a Story episode. Joanna is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the bestselling novel A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction and the Elle Readers' Prize. Rakoff's books have been translated into twenty languages, and the film adaptation of My Salinger Year opened in theaters worldwide in 2021 and is now streaming. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Sewanee, Authors' Guild, PEN, Ragdale Foundation, Art, and Saltonstall; and has taught at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, and Aspen Words. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, O: The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, Elle, Porter, and elsewhere, and her new memoir, The Fifth Passenger, is forthcoming from Little, Brown in 2024.Joanna discusses her upcoming project, a memoir about her own family, and the revelation of a shocking, life-altering family secret. Listen to our conversation to hear about her background, including her experiences with being bullied as a child, family dynamics, motherhood, the concept of "replacement children," and much more.Thank you, Joanna, for sharing your evocative, inspiring story!Quotes:"I as a kid definitely did not envision this as my future. Not at all. I mean it didn't even occur to me.” “We existed kind of in radical opposition to each other.” “I think maybe replacement children may be prone to having some survivor's guilt.”

What happens if we immediately regret the single most important decision many of us will make in our lives? The day after writer Joanna Rakoff got married, she knew she had made a big mistake. But as a self-professed “good girl” and quasi-perfectionist, she stayed in the marriage for fifteen years. Her big wake up call came when at a conference, she spotted the man she had dated in college, not just any man, but the love of her life. Joanna shares how she overcame her fear of being judged by the world, and the relief that came when she finally let go and leapt into a new life. In this episode, the contract we're rewriting is one of expectations around romance, marriage, and motherhood. We're challenging the imaginary court of public opinion that we as women have been taught to fear so much. We discuss:Why a supposedly life-ending mistake can be a blessing in disguiseHow to challenge the notion that making a big change will lead to ridiculeSome of the reasons we make not-so-stellar choicesThe warning signs to notice in your body that reveal your true feelingsWhy you should stop wasting so much time caring and start changing your life todayOUR GUEST: Joanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the bestselling novel A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction and the Elle Readers' Prize. Rakoff's books have been translated into twenty languages, and the film adaptation of My Salinger Year, starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley, opened in theaters worldwide in 2021 and is now available on Amazon Prime, AppleTV, and everywhere you stream movies.Joanna's Website: www.joannarakoff.comBuy Joanna's Book “My Salinger Year”: https://www.amazon.com/My-Salinger-Year-Joanna-Rakoff/dp/030794798XWatch the feature film “My Salinger Year” on Apple TV, Amazon Prime or Youtube Joanna's Twitter: https://twitter.com/joannarakoff Joanna's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joannarakoff/ Follow Hotter Than Ever wherever you listen to podcasts - we're on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and more! That way you'll never miss an episode. We'd love to hear what you think about the show, too - it helps us know what stories are resonating with you. Head over to Apple Podcasts to write your review!Stay in the know with all things Hotter Than Ever! Sign up for our email list!Want more Hotter Than Ever? Find us online at https://www.hotterthaneverpod.com/Follow us on social @hotterthaneverpod!Instagram Facebook TikTok

Zibby speaks to author-editors Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters about Wanting: Women Writing About Desire, an intimate, daring, and impassioned collection of essays by award-winning and emerging female writers, such as Joanna Rakoff, Lisa Taddeo, Tara Conklin, and Michelle Wildgen (a Zibby Books author!!). The three discuss the origins of this project, the unique experience of editing and compiling an anthology, and the particular essays that Zibby cannot stop thinking about, from Joanna Rakoff's breathtaking encounter with an old love to Michelle Wildgen's mouthwatering descriptions of bread and cheese!(Oops! Zibby accidentally says that our April retreat is in Nashville -- it's actually in Charleston! And we would love it if you joined us. Visit zibbymag.com/zibby-retreats to get your weekend pass!)Purchase on Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3xlN1yESubscribe to Zibby's weekly newsletter here.Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch here. Now there's more! Subscribe to Acast+ and get exclusive access to the in-store author events at Zibby's Bookshop in Santa Monica, CA. Join today! https://plus.acast.com/s/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mr. Darcy finds Lizzy and hands her a letter in Chapters 35 and 36 of Pride and Prejudice. Vanessa and Lauren discuss the ‘romance' of Darcy's letter and the way in which it triggers a change in Lizzy. Joanna Rakoff joins us at the end of the episode to discuss coming-of-age novels and the history of letters in literature. Our next episode is on December 16th, when we'll be reading Chapters 37 through 39.---Don't spend your daughter's dowry, but if you can spare $2/month, we'd love to have your support on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joanna Rakoff has been a writer for as long as she can remember---even back to the days when people more routinely stated things like, "A career in the arts isn't realistic." That said, her journey has taken more than a few twists and turns. From believing she wanted to follow a specific writing journey that didn't exactly "pan out" as she expected to discovering what type of writing she's truly passionate about (and why one needn't ever utter the words "I thought it was 'bad' to want [fill in the blank]," her story offers no fewer than 973 lessons in perseverance, the value of self-awareness, and the rewards that come from following the unique beat of one's heart. On this episode of the Write the Damn Book Already podcast, we discussed: - Joanna's ultimately realization that she desired "to make art rather than comment on it" (having started out with a more journalistic pursuit) - The process of having her second book, My Salinger Year, optioned for film and the experience that resulted from choosing a producer with her heart, not her head. - Her thoughts on the publishing industry sometimes wildly underestimating what readers actually want, and how it plays into books that become an unexpected success What we think goes on behind the scenes of authors walking red carpets (not to mention what was involved in getting there to begin with) is often quite off-base, and a result of us trying to keep ourselves safe by thinking, "Well, that could never happen to me anyway because..." But when we realize that, just like Us magazine likes to tell us every week, celebrities are "just like us," we can actually begin to get curiously creative about telling ourselves a different story---one that supports amazing and unexpected opportunities. *** Connect with Joanna Author website Joanna Rakoff on Instagam Joanna Rakoff on Facebook Joanna Rakoff on Twitter Buy My Salinger Year Buy A Fortunate Age *** AMAZING UPGRADE to Book Writing Made Simple We now have pop-up co-writing containers! This is an opportunity for you to join a Zoom room for 60 minutes, where everyone will be on mute, writing their book or catching up on trainings (so they can efficiently and excitedly write their book!). My hope is that this will help to create a collective energy of "doing the damn thing" that ALL of us need from time to time! BOOK WRITING MADE SIMPLE is a 12-month program for writing powerful, thought-provoking non-fiction or memoir that readers can't put down. The book writing process I provide through Book Writing Made Simple is the result of 18+ years of writing 6 of my own books and helping hundreds of authors get their books written as well. It addresses the critical (and often overlooked) aspects of writing a book that:

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An interview with Joanna Rakoff, author of the memoir My Salinger Year (Vintage, 2014). Joanna and I discuss the power of a novelistic memoir, breaking open literary New York, what it was like replying to J.D. Salinger's fan mail, and working in true collaboration on the film adaptation of her memoir. Joanna Recommends: Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point Evan Hughes, The Hard Sell Sara Freeman, Tides Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An interview with Joanna Rakoff, author of the memoir My Salinger Year (Vintage, 2014). Joanna and I discuss the power of a novelistic memoir, breaking open literary New York, what it was like replying to J.D. Salinger's fan mail, and working in true collaboration on the film adaptation of her memoir. Joanna Recommends: Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point Evan Hughes, The Hard Sell Sara Freeman, Tides Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

An interview with Joanna Rakoff, author of the memoir My Salinger Year (Vintage, 2014). Joanna and I discuss the power of a novelistic memoir, breaking open literary New York, what it was like replying to J.D. Salinger's fan mail, and working in true collaboration on the film adaptation of her memoir. Joanna Recommends: Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point Evan Hughes, The Hard Sell Sara Freeman, Tides Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

An interview with Joanna Rakoff, author of the memoir My Salinger Year (Vintage, 2014). Joanna and I discuss the power of a novelistic memoir, breaking open literary New York, what it was like replying to J.D. Salinger's fan mail, and working in true collaboration on the film adaptation of her memoir. Joanna Recommends: Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point Evan Hughes, The Hard Sell Sara Freeman, Tides Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Joanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the novel A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction, the Elle Readers' Prize, and a San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller. 

CINEMA! E ANCORA CINEMA! Nuovo appuntamento con la mia rubrica "improvvisata" in cui esprimo opinioni su film visti da pochi minuti al Cinema per ricordarvi che il CINEMA è AL CINEMA! Esiste una giusta distanza tra le proprie aspirazioni e la necessità di sopravvivere? Oppure tra uno scrittore e i suoi ammiratori? Quesiti affrontati dalla giovane Joanna Rakoff alle prese con un futuro incerto, un sogno nel cassetto e un cliente di tutto rispetto come Mr. J.D. Salinger.

This week is the 100th episode celebration for And Then Everything Changed! I started the podcast on Halloween of 2019 with my first guest, Paul who took a chance on a new show and a new host, and we created one of my favorite episodes to date. Since then, I've gotten to interview people in recovery, survivors, social justice leaders, and so many talented authors. On my website ATECpodcast.com you can go check out and listen to my previous episodes, each categorized by topic, so you can listen to what moves you first! Thank you for tuning in and for being a part of the ATEC community! Below are links to the 15 most listened-to episodes: 1. A Living Person Among the Dead featuring Paul Boardman  36. From Downward Spiral to the Other Side featuring Ashlee Brown  3. Everybody Knew featuring Christine McLean The COVID-19 Experience- Surviving Coronavirus, Bonus Episode 3 59. Living Through the Loss of a Spouse featuring Mark Schutter 61. A Family Survival Story: Prosthesis, Recovery, and Resilience featuring Rosalie 93. My Salinger Year and a Second Chance at Love featuring Joanna Rakoff 58. Mother to a Child Born with Differences: From Pain to Advocacy featuring Jaclyn Greenberg 60. The Power of Advocacy After Childhood Trauma featuring Johnny Crowder 23. The Duality of the Gift of Coming to America Baktash Ahadi 27. Unschooling OUrselves Akilah Richards 45. The Toll of Mental Illness and Finding A Path Forward featuring Debbie Lechtman  40. Hollywood Park Mikel Jollett 97. Becoming the Person You're Meant to Be After Childhood Violence, Drugs, and Neglect ft. Treveal Lynch 90. A life of Meaning After Profound Loss Jacqueline Genovese     About Ronit‘s book When She Comes Back: https://ronitplank.com/book/   Connect With Ronit: For more about this episode click here! https://andtheneverythingchangedpodcast.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlankCreative/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAlSZFpcksgdHopmBLUXfLA

Other Books by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Show Notes Other author mentions/influences: Donna Tartt, Kate Atkinson, Pat Barker, Hilary Mantel My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff. The post MTTA 169: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore appeared first on Meet the Thriller Author.

Other Books by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Show Notes Other author mentions/influences: Donna Tartt, Kate Atkinson, Pat Barker, Hilary Mantel My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff. The post MTTA 169: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore appeared first on Meet the Thriller Author.

Calling all romantics, writers, and memoir lovers--this episode is for you! When Joanna Rakoff, best selling author of  A Fortunate Age and My Salinger Year (now also a movie starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley), took a job at a storied New York literary agency back in her twenties she had no idea her experience there answering letters addressed to J.D. Salinger about Catcher in the Rye and assisting the author himself would shape her life for decades to come. In this episode we dive deep into the book that would change everything for her career and Joanna tells the story of marrying the wrong man, reuniting with the right man, and how they found a life together long after she thought they had missed their chance.    Connect with Joanna: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joannarakoff/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/joannarakoff Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joanna.rakoff Website: http://www.joannarakoff.com/ Watch My Salinger Year here: https://www.amazon.com/My-Salinger-Year-Margaret-Qualley/dp/B08XST93XK/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=My+Salinger+Year&qid=1629149640&s=instant-video&sr=1-1   Connect With Ronit: For more about this episode click here! https://andtheneverythingchangedpodcast.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlankCreative/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAlSZFpcksgdHopmBLUXfLA

On this episode we are joined by internationally bestselling author and friend of the pod, Joanna Rakoff, to discuss Laura Dave's instant #1 New York Times bestseller and Reese Book Club Pick, The Last Thing He Told Me...a thriller rooted in hope! ** Complicated Woman. After an introduction to the book and our love of Laura Dave's backlist, we each share what we found remarkable about Hannah, who we declare a truly subversive female protagonist. (07:42) ** Killer Quotes. This book is filled with “killer quotes” but Carinn & Kate pick their favorites and discuss how they relate to the book's larger themes and questions. (28:33) ** What's Your Damage, Heather? This novel explores one of our favorites...mommy issues. Hannah was abandoned by her own mother and we chat about how that kind of trauma can imprint on a person for life. Joanna likens it to a memoir she loves, When She Comes Back, by Ronit Plank. (32:38) ** What She Said. We deep drive into Laura Dave, her ability to pivot, how she keeps getting better, and the decades long journey this book took to publication. (43:18) ** Takeaways. The book leaves us debating whether we could have done what Hannah did? And also wondering whether a woman can be the hero of her own story AND ALSO a true partner in a relationship. (54:30) ** Who Won The Book? For Kate it's the propulsive pacing and for Carinn it's Jake, the ex-fiance whose character jumps off the page! (67:25) ** Crystal Ball. Carinn looks into the future book she *wants* to read next, while Kate posits what she thinks Laura Dave may write should she actually pursue a potential sequel.  (74:30) Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @popfictionwomen and on Twitter @pop_women. To do a full deep dive, check out our website at http://www.popfictionwomen.com (www.popfictionwomen.com). Stay Complicated! We've launched a platform at patreon.com/popfictionwomen to keep making the podcast you love -- and to make it even better.  Support this podcast

For the seventh episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the wonderful Joanna Rakoff. Her first book, the charming memoir My Salinger Year, has recently been adapted to the big screen starring Sigourney Weaver.   You can read about Esther's original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:   The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton On Beauty by Zadie Smith Howard's End by E. M. Forster Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Passing by Nella Larsen Le Divorce by Diane Johnson Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin   Other books we spoke about included Joanna's books My Salinger Year and A Fortunate Age, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pychon, Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld, Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and Persian Nights by Diane Johnson.   If you'd like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you're based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice. To contact me, email lucy@thelitedit.com   Facebook The Literary Edit   Instagram: @the_litedit @joannarakoff   Twitter: @thelitedit @jrakoff  

Zibby is joined by Joanna Rakoff, author of the memoir My Salinger Year, which details the year she worked at the literary agency that represented J.D. Salinger. From responding to Salinger's fan mail to essentially running the agency when her boss suffered a personal tragedy, Joanna shares countless unbelievable stories — including one about the secrets her family kept hidden from her for decades. Purchase on Amazon or Bookshop.Amazon: https://amzn.to/3frWRqABookshop: https://bit.ly/3wXKSrx See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mary Jane: By Jessica Anya Blau Website: Https://gobookmart.com "I LOVED Jessica Anya Blau's novel. Mary Jane is about an oppressed teenager being given a jolt of life and joy by an eccentric found family of therapists, a child, a rock star and a movie star in the 1970s....If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45rpm." -- Nick Hornby "I dare you to find a more winning novel than Jessica Anya Blau's Mary Jane. Filled with humor and sharpness and so much light, this book introduces an amazing cast of characters, all so unique and finely observed, held together by the clarity of Mary Jane's voice. It evokes those rare moments when your world is on the precipice of change, almost a dream, and how thrilling it is to push your way toward something new." -- Kevin Wilson "Delightful...Blau is a deft hand with comic juxtaposition and domestic fantasy. She keeps it light, she keeps it moving and she's got terrific visuals...You can watch the movie in your mind. Lady Gaga as Sheba? I'm already casting it." -- New York Times Book Review "MARY JANE is that rare thing: An utterly charming, absurdly delightful novel that also makes you think deeply about the world around you. Jessica Anya Blau's clear-eyed wit reminded me of Curtis Sittenfeld and Laurie Colwin, and, of course, Jane Austen." -- Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year “The experience of reading Jessica Anya Blau's Mary Jane is a lot like eating quality candy: super enjoyable, crazy good. I am sad to have finished it.” -- Marcy Dermansky "Blau's intelligent, witty novel captures the essence of the '70s with humor and immensely appealing characters. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal (starred review) "Blau's coming-of-age charmer will hit all of the nostalgia notes." -- Parade "A charming and poignant tale of desire, image, Americana, and chosen family." -- Booklist --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gobookmart-review/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gobookmart-review/support

As the world switches to hybrid working, many of us are having to learn how to manage our space, time and demands now that we work from home. But authors have been doing it for decades. What is the secret to success? In this episode, we welcome Joanna Rakoff, the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the novel A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction, the Elle Readers' Prize, and a San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller. She has written frequently for The New York Times, Vogue, Marie Claire, O: The Oprah Magazine, and many other publications. In this episode we discuss: Her working environment and the habits which keep her on track What productivity means to her The impact of social media on writers and their work The film adaptation of My Salinger Year stars Margaret Qualley as Joanna and Sigourney Weaver as her boss. Directed by Oscar-nominee Philippe Falardeau, the film opens in theaters and streaming in North America on March 5, 2021 and in the UK on May 17, 2021. To find out more about Joanna (joannarakoff.com) To watch My Salinger Year (in the US): https://www.amazon.com/My-Salinger-Year-Margaret-Qualley/dp/B08XRXS8YB Host and Producer: Georgie Powell Music: Toccare

Joanna Rakoff (she/her) is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the novel A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction, the Elle Reader's Prize, and a San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller. Rakoff's books have been translated into twenty languages and nominated for major prizes in The Netherlands and France. She has written frequently for The New York Times, Vogue, Marie Claire, O: The Oprah Magazine, and many other publications. Follow Joanna on Instagram: @joannarakoff - be. (bewomn.com) is a newsletter & community here to empower women and non-binary people to step into their collective experience and share what makes theirs different and the same. We also have a new values-forward quarterly subscription box, which you can learn more about here: bewomn.com Subscribe to our newsletter here: https://campsite.bio/bewomn Follow us on Instagram: @be.womn Follow us on Twitter: @bewomn

We welcome internationally bestselling author, Joanna Rakoff, to discuss her memoir, My Salinger Year. Joanna tells the story of the year she worked as the assistant to the literary agent for JD Salinger. It's a beautiful coming of age story and now a major motion picture!   ** We start by discussing the exhilarating experience of seeing her story adapted for the big screen starring Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver, and the role she played in the adaptation. (02:55) ** The protagonist of My Salinger Year, who is a version of Joanna at 24 years old, is certainly complicated. We discuss a question she posed to herself at the time and love her answer about how she still struggles with this question even now at age 48: “was it possible that one could be complicated, intellectual, awake to the world, that one could be an artist and also be rosy and filled with light, was it possible that one could be all those things and also happy?” (08:10) ** Joanna discusses the fan mail of Salinger’s that she responded to, and in doing so, how she found her own voice. We are in awe of how wise she was at the age of 24! (16:03)  ** At the end of the memoir we find out that Joanna and her college boyfriend reconnect sixteen years later, which allowed us the perfect opportunity to deep dive into one of our favorite themes: the one that got away. You can actually hear Carinn’s lightbulb moment as she gets the idea: what if “the one” came into your life too soon? What if he would have hindered your personal growth? That’s a love worth waiting for! (20:27) ** Joanna is a writer at heart -- she has been a poet, a reporter, a novelist, a memoirist and a screenwriter -- but she refuses to be assigned to one box. We were so inspired by her “policy of saying yes” to the right things and “no” to the wrong things. She also gives us a glimpse into her future aspirations and we are giddy at her sustained ambition! (31:54). ** We discuss Joanna’s love of poetry, which she views now as a luxury as opposed to a necessity like it was in her twenties. It’s still a respite for her, and something we should all read right now.  (39:28) ** Listen to here how Joanna applied the principles of fiction writing in order to structure her real life events into a compelling narrative. (43:20) ** We can’t go without discussing astrology...Joanna is a “classic Taurus” who loves astrology, but is curious to know more about her sign, even though she was once gifted an astrological chart by an author. (49:08) ** Joanna shares information about her next book, The Fifth Passenger. (55:16) ** We end with what Joanna is loving right now in terms of books, movies and TV shows. (57:41) Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @popfictionwomen and on Twitter @pop_women. To do a full deep dive, check out our website at http://www.popfictionwomen.com (www.popfictionwomen.com). Stay Complicated! We’ve launched a platform at patreon.com/popfictionwomen to keep making the podcast you love -- and to make it even better. For a one time contribution to support this episode, use venmo @carinn-jade. Thank you for your support and enjoy the show!! Support this podcast

Kate and Doree add a little comfort and care to their lives in the form of pedicures and bra fittings, then welcome Joanna Rakoff (My Salinger Year) on the pod to talk about her extensive skin care collection, how to look your best on Zoom, the film adaptation of her memoir, and why she locks her phone up for 12 hours at a time.To leave a voicemail or text for a future episode, reach us at 781-591-0390. You can also email the podcast at forever35podcast@gmail.com.Visit forever35podcast.com for links to everything we mention on the show.Follow us on Twitter (@Forever35Pod) and Instagram (@Forever35Podcast) and join the Forever35 Facebook Group (Password: Serums). This week’s episode is sponsored by:PHARMACA - Go to Pharmaca.com/FOREVER35 to save TWENTY PERCENT off your first order. CALM - For 40% off a Calm Premium subscription, head to calm.com/forever35.PURPLE - Go to Purple.com/forever3510, and use promo code FOREVER3510. For a limited time, get 10% off any order of $200 or more!BETTER HELP - Get 10% off your first month with the discount code FOREVER35. Go to betterhelp.com/FOREVER35 to get started today.THIRDLOVE - Get 20% off your first purchase when you go to thirdlove.com/forever. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Philippe Falardeau and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his touching and thoughtful new film My Salinger Year, context and culture, risk taking, monsters and creativity and artists that move you.TrailerThe film is available to rent or buy on the Apple TV app/iTunes and other VOD platforms.Synopsis:New York in the 90s: After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-panelled office - where dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze off after three-martini lunches - and her nights in a sink-less Brooklyn apartment with her socialist boyfriend.Joanna’s main task is processing Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart- wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency’s impersonal standard letter and impulsively begins personalizing the responses. The results are both humorous and moving, as Joanna, while using the great writer’s voice, begins to discover her own.About Philippe:Falardeau was born and raised in Hull, Quebec and later studied political science at the University of Ottawa, before travelling around the world for the Quebec competitive television series Course Destination Monde, on which he emerged as the Grand Prize winner.His first feature film, The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge (La Moitié gauche du frigo) which won Best Canadian First Feature at the 2000Toronto International Film Festival and received a Best Screenplay nomination at the Quebec-based Jutra Awards.Falardeau received much press attention following the release of his 2011 film Monsieur Lazhar. The film premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award and the Variety Piazza Grande Award. The film was nominated for Best Foreign language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, and also won six Canadian Screen Awards. At Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a rating of 97%, based on 110 reviews and an average rating of 8.1/10.In 2014 he directed the film The Good Lie, which stars Reese Witherspoon and premiered at the 2014 Toronto Internaiotnl Film festival to positive reviews.My Salinger Year starring opened the 70th Berlin International Film Festival and stars Sigourney Weaver, Margaret Qualley and Colm Feore and is adapted from Joanna Rakoff’s memoirs about working in New York’s literary world during the late 1990s.Image Copyright and Credit: Microscope and Mongrel Media.F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A lot can happen in a year. Directed by Philippe Falardeau, MY SALINGER YEAR is a slice of the life of Joanna Rakoff, an aspiring young writer in 1990s New York. After taking a job as an agent’s assistant, Joanna finds herself responding to the fan mail of legendary author J.D. Salinger as she struggles to find a voice of her own. In this 1on1, we speak to Falardeau about the challenges of adapting a memoir and what it means to be chosen by the book.

Archétype du personnage avec Rafaële Germain; la célibataire. Qu'en pensent nos universitaires? avec Geneviève Péladeau, Laurence Tremblay et Gali Bonin qui ont lu Nègres blancs d'Amérique, de Pierre Vallières. Georges Leroux : La faiblesse du vrai. Ce que la post-vérité fait à notre monde commun, de Myriam Revault d'Allonnes. Une heure avec le scénariste et réalisateur Philippe Falardeau et le tournage au printemps de My Salinger Year, l'adaptation cinématographique du livre éponyme de Joanna Rakoff, avec entre autres, Sigourney Weaver.

L'actualité culturelle à Toronto avec Russell Smith. Entrevue avec le rappeur Lomepal et son 2e album Jeannine. Une entrevue avec Hassoun Camara pour Saisir sa chance : quand le sport rencontre l'entrepreneuriat, Logiques. Une heure avec le scénariste et réalisateur Philippe Falardeau et le tournage au printemps de My Salinger Year, l'adaptation cinématographique du livre éponyme de Joanna Rakoff, avec entre autres, Sigourney Weaver.

Startup (Little Brown and Company) Doree Shafrir’s hilarious, smart debut Startup is set in the heart of New York City’s tech industry, where 36 is considered past your prime and a pole-dancing workshop is an acceptable Thursday evening activity with your co-workers. A veteran online journalist, Doree has written a hilarious and sharply observed novel about the difficulties of real-life connection in our hyper-connected world. Startup assembles a cast of indelible characters: Mack, the it-boy visionary of the moment trying to take his app to the next level; Isabel, a social media hero working for him a bit too closely; Katya, an ambitious Russian emigre journalist desperate for a scoop; and Sabrina, an exhausted mother of two whose inattentive husband happens to be Katya's boss. When a scandal erupts in the lower Manhattan loft building where all four work, they quickly discover just how small a world the Big Apple's tech community can be. A senior culture writer at BuzzFeed, Doree was inspired to write this novel by the follies and foibles of the startup world, and also in part by some of the scandals that plagued the tech industry in the last few years. Camille Perri, author of The Assistants, notes Startup “is chock-full of strong women transcending the workplace drama, sexual politics, and all-around dumb stuff the men in their life are doing. It’s a novel that just might spark the official feministing of startup culture.” This debut, already praised by Rumaan Alam, Joanna Rakoff, and Nick Bilton, is a sharp, hugely entertaining story of youth, ambition, love, money and technology's inability to hack human nature. Praise for Startup  “Is there a satirist alive more brilliant—and more insightful—than Doree Shafrir? That I tore through Startup in a single day—ignoring the cries of my children and the dinging of my phone, laughing with recognition at her characters’ foibles—is perhaps not nearly as significant as the fact that this ridiculously compelling novel has haunted me, every minute, in the weeks that followed. If you have ever lived in New York or worked in an office, you will love this novel. If you love the novels of Tom Perotta, you will love this novel. But also: If you are a sentient human, you will love this novel.”--Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year "Don't buy this book. Don't open. Don't start reading it. Because if you do, I can assure you, you won't be able to put it down. I was hooked from the first page and found myself lost in a beautifully-written fiction that so succinctly echoes today's bizarre reality."— Nick Bilton, Special Correspondent, Vanity Fair and author of Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal “This funny, empowering debut is chock-full of strong women transcending the workplace drama, sexual politics, and all-around dumb stuff the men in their life are doing. It’s a novel that just might spark the official feministing of startup culture. If I were a tech bro, I’d be shaking in my hoodie.”–Camille Perri, author of The Assistants Doree Shafrir has also been on staff at Rolling Stone, the New York Observer, Gawker, and Philadelphia Weekly, and has contributed to publications including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Slate, The Awl, New York Magazine, Marie Claire, and Wired. She grew up outside of Boston, lived in New York for nine years, and now resides in Los Angeles with her husband Matt Mira, a comedy writer and podcaster. Jade Chang has covered arts and culture as a journalist and editor. She is the recipient of a Sundance Fellowship for Arts Journalism, the AIGA/Winterhouse Award for Design Criticism, and the James D. Houston Memorial scholarship from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. The Wangs VS. The World is her first book.

Tova Mirvis, author of the forthcoming memoir The Book of Separation (September 2017), talks with Hannah Harlow, Assistant Director of Marketing at HMH. The Book of Separation is the memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world. “To say that reading The Book of Separation made me feel less alone in the world would be a vast understatement. Tova Mirvis perfectly, beautifully, unsettlingly captures the particular horror—existential and otherwise—of dismantling a long marriage and starting one’s life anew. This is a heartbreaking, breathtaking, life-altering book.”—Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year “In The Book of Separation, Tova Mirvis brings us into her heart-wrenching decision to leave her marriage and the world of Orthodox Judaism behind. Her exploration of faith and self are truly miraculous. This book is a wonder!”—Ann Hood, author of The Book that Matters Most

J.D. Salinger & Me with Joanna Rakoff and host, Crystal-lee Quibell discuss what it was like to work for the infamous literary agency, sharing how she answered fan mail for J.D. Salinger and, how working in a literary agency can help develop your career as an author. Joanna Rakoff is the author of the novel A Fortunate Age, as well as the memoir My Salinger Year. She has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, and other publications. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Crystal-Lee Quibell is the host of Literary Speaking, a weekly podcast dedicated to helping writers learn from best-selling authors, literary agents, and publishers. Founder of The Magical Writers Group, a private teaching forum for writers specifically focused on memoir. She is a champion for the written word, student of publishing and an obsessive book collector with a serious case of wanderlust. A self-described mermaid and witchy woman for life, she believes that life is better with books, chocolate, and the occasional cheese board. Her upcoming essay is to be featured in the forthcoming book, The Magic Of Memoir: Inspiration for the Writer's Journey. 

Harriet Gilbert discusses JD Salinger's classic novel The Catcher in the Rye with a studio audience, including questions from BBC World Service listeners as far afield as Nepal and the Czech Republic. She's in New York's Algonquin Hotel, long-time hangout of our reclusive writer, and answers your questions with the help of authors David Gilbert and Joanna Rakoff. JD Salinger wrote the book in 1951, and died in 2010. (Photo: JD Salinger) (Credit: AP)

In this week's episode, I interview novelist and memoirsit Joanna Rakoff, Photo by David Ignaszewski and then talk once again with the poet Tony Hoagland, Photo by Ann Staveley plus Brittany McIntyre writes bravely about how a book I never expected to learn more about changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Carlton Melton's "Country Ways" accompanied Brittany McIntyre's essay. In Orlando, come hear me, Kimberly Lojewski, Robert Metcalf, and Tiffany Razzano read at There Will Be Words on January 13th. Learn more about J. Bradley's love poem workshop at the Orlando Public Library here. Check out the dreamy surf rock of The Bambi Molesters.

Two women, two memoirs, two extraordinary lives-the subjects of The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds, when Halli is joined at her table by award-winning writers Elizabeth Nunez author of NOT FOR EVERDAY USE and Joanna Rakoff author of MY SALINGER YEARS.Elizabeth Nunez, PhD, immigrated to the US from Trinidad after completing high school. She is the award-winning author of eight novels, four of them selected as New York Times Editors choice, among her books BOUNDARIES, nominated for the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Fiction and ANNA IN-BETWEEN awarded the PEN Oakland Award. Nunez is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, where she teaches fiction writing. Her latest book, the memoir NOT FOR EVERYDAY USE is an astonishing achievement. Tracing the four days from the moment she gets the call that every immigrant fears to the burial of her mother, Nunez tells the haunting story of her lifelong struggle to cope with the consequences of the “sterner stuff” of her parents' ambitions for their children, and her mother's seemingly unbreakable conviction that displays of affection are not for everyday use.Joanna Rakoff's novel A FORTUNATE AGE won the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers and the Elle Readers' Prize, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice and a San Francisco Chronicle best seller. She has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, and other publications. Hailed by critics, Rakoff's new memoir, MY SALINGER YEAR, is a poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny coming of age story of a girl who at twenty-three, after leaving graduate school, dared to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet. A move to New York City, a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger, a love affair -- well, sort of -- Joanna Rakoff's book MY SALINGER YEAR brilliant captures literary New York in the late nineties, the pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing. For more information on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show visit http://bit.ly/hcjshow

Joanna Rakoff reads from My Salinger Year and Edan Lepucki reads from California at Brookline Booksmith. Listen in as these two writers read from their work and answer questions about driving through LA during a blackout that seems to presage apocalypse, about the experience of working in J.D. Salinger's agency, and about the shift from novel to memoir, third-person to first.

Book cover cliches - do they sell? Why writers are opening up about finances, 37 books every creative person should read, how to become a prolific writer while holding down a day job, Writer in Residence Joanna Rakoff (and a giveaway!), the Qwerkywriter, author trademarks and more! Read the show notes.  Connect with Valerie, Allison and listeners in the podcast community on Facebook Visit WritersCentre.com.au | AllisonTait.com | ValerieKhoo.com

Joanna Rakoff ("My Salinger Year") joins the show. We discuss Joanna's experience working at a very respected, but albeit idiosyncratic, literary agency that housed one of the great twentieth century writers.

Joanna Rakoff spent 1996 working as an assistant for Harold Ober Associates, overhearing the likes of J.D. Salinger and Judy Blume talking shop. This 75 minute conversation, which discusses Rakoff's memoir MY SALINGER YEAR, gets into some of the underlying privilege and protective family dynamics which led Rakoff to get a later start as an adult.