Joanna Rakoff’s ‘My Salinger Year’ Belongs in the Canon of Coming-of-Age Books

By Elisabeth Donnelly on Jun 3, 2014 - Flavorwire

A slim, carefully observed memoir about her 23rd year, Joanna Rakoff’s new book My Salinger Year may be about the time she spent as an agent’s assistant in New York City, fielding calls from J.D. Salinger and answering his never-ending avalanche of fan mail, but it’s also a very good book about being young and unsure, making dumb decisions and figuring out how to be a person. … Read More