The Drum

Joanna Rakoff’s novel A Fortunate Age won the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers and the Elle Readers’ Prize, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a San Francisco Chronicle best seller. She has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, and other publications. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her memoir My Salinger Year was published in June 2013.

Rakoff's reading with Edan Lepucki at Brookline Booksmith on July 24, 2013 appears in the July issue of The Drum.