Book review
My Salinger year
My Salinger year is Joanna Rakoff’s second book. It is a story, her story, of a young person becoming a writer. In the late 1990s having achieved a Master’s degree in English but aware that she must start at the bottom Joanna sets of to find a niche in the literary establishment.
Literary house situations in her home town, New York, were scarce however she eventually wins a position in a venerable writer’s agency on the strength of being able to use a typewriter – which she had fortunately been taught at college some years previously. It transpired that the manager had interviewed many for the position all of who failed on this requisite
Joanna was taken aback at what she discovered. The once thriving agency had not kept up with the times there were none of the now normal equipment such as computers, scanners and copiers. All writing was still carried out on Selectic typewriters and client’s details were all on card files. … Continue Reading
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