Joanna Rakoff, MY SALINGER YEAR

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium, and we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there. And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens, and my website is Zibby Owens.com. Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. Joanna Rakoff is the author of
0:39.5	My Salinger Year. She's also the author of the bestselling novel, A Fortune Age, winner of the
0:44.6	Goldberg Prize for Fiction, and as I said, My Saling Year, which is an international best-selling
0:50.3	memoir, which has been adapted into a feature film starring Sigourney Weaver and
0:54.4	Margaret Qualey.
0:55.7	Joanna's books have been translated into 20 languages and nominated for major prizes in the
0:59.9	Netherlands and France.
1:01.3	She has written frequently for the New York Times, Vogue, Marie Claire, and many other
1:04.5	publications.
1:05.4	And we had the best time recording in person, which is always such a treat in this post-COVID
1:10.2	world.
1:11.0	Hi, Joanna.
1:13.1	Hi, I'm so happy to be here.
1:15.3	It's so nice to do this in person.
1:17.5	Yes, this is like the highlight of the spring.
1:22.4	I'm so glad you came back to New York that I could make an excuse for you to come back.
1:27.3	I know. It's so strange and exciting to be back here.
1:30.6	And so awesome.
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