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Film review: in My Salinger Year, hope and optimism win out
In 2014, Joanna Rakoff published a memoir, My Salinger Year, recounting the events of the year she spent working as a “Girl Friday” in Harold Ober Associates – one of New York’s oldest and finest literary agencies.
Rakoff’s sole responsibility was to read the constant stream of fan mail sent to its most famous client, JD Salinger, and to write polite “brush off” letters to their authors.
- Anne Maxwell
- The Conversation
Rakoff enjoyed at least one encounter with Salinger…