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Press

Profiles

JD Salinger and me: Joanna Rakoff on her extraordinary coming-of-age memoir of New York’s literary world, The Guardian

She answered J.D. Salinger’s fan mail, and now her memoir is a movie, The Boston Globe

Joanna Rakoff’s Best-Selling Memoir “My Salinger Year” Makes Film Debut, JewishBoston

9 Memoirs That Prove Jobs Go Beyond Cubicle Life, Bustle

‘My Salinger Year’ catches a woman — and world — on the cusp of metamorphosis, The Times of Israel

Joanna Rakoff: ‘You want the movie to be more like a poem and less like a novel’, Open Magazine

A Vanished World of Readers: On Joanna Rakoff’s My Salinger Year, The Millions

Joanna Rakoff: Finding the Courage, Confidence & Clarity of Mind to Become a Best-Selling Author, Freedom

The Footnote with Joanna Rakoff, Moms Don’t Have Time to Write

We Finally Get to See ‘My Salinger Year’, The Book and Film Globe

Film Interview 2021: Joanna Rakoff, The New Current

Author Spotlight: Joanna Rakoff, Pen2Paper

Video/Radio/Podcast

Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books with Zibby Owens
The Juggle, Modern Writers, and the Truth about Productivity on Freedom Matters
Forever 35 Ep. 160: A Balm of One’s Own with Kate Spencer and Doree Shafrir
And Then Everything Changed Ep. 93: My Salinger Year and a Second Chance at Love with Ronit Plank
Joanna Rakoff’s connection with reclusive author J.D. Salinger on Conversations with Richard Fidler
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Cooking the Books Episode 10 with Emily Gould
Boston Book Festival 2014 with Rebecca Mead, Max Tegmark, and Ethan Gilsdorf
Hey Mr. Salinger on BBC Radio 4
Books+ on ABC radio, Australia with Michael Cathcart
WritersCast, with David Wilk
The Bat Segundo Show Ep. 547 with Edward Champion
The Drunken Odyssey Ep. 146: A Roundtable Discussion of MFA vs. NYC with Tony Hoagland

Reviews of My Salinger Year

The Washington Post

The New York Times
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The Chicago Tribune
The Sunday Times
National Post
The London Magazine
SFGate
Seacoast Reads
Ploughshares
The Indiependent
Booklover Book Reviews
Lectito
The Terror of Knowing
Fiction Advocate
Sandra Ann Heath

Interviews

Salon

The Christian Science Monitor
The Baltimore Sun
Vox
LA WEEKLY
The Bookseller (UK)
Scroll (India)
The Economic Times
The Millions
Hippocampus Magazine
BookTrib
Flavorwire
FullStop
LiveMint
The Nervous Breakdown
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

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