A journalist, critic, and poet, with writing appearing in numerous publications--including The New York Times and Kenyon Review-- and recipient of the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Writers for her previous work, A Fortunate Age, Joanna Rakoff recalls her life in literary New York in the late nineties, when she became the assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger, with her poignant, keenly observed, and irresistibly funny memoir, My Salinger Year.