The Book Stall at Chestnut Court

JOANNA RAKOFF

         Friday, June 20 @6:30 pm
at The Book Stall

 

It's turned out to be one of the most buzzed-about books of the young summer -- My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff, and we're delighted the bestselling author is including The Book Stall on her very busy cross-country summer book tour.  

 

My Salinger Year is a spellbinding memoir about her job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger, where even in the mid-1990s she spent her days in an office where Dictaphones and typewriters still reigned and old-time agents dozed at their desks after martini lunches. Tasked with answering the volumes of letters written to Salinger, she found herself unable to type out the agency's decades-old form response. Instead, she abandoned the template and began writing back. 

Click here to find a great trailer for the book and here to read a rave review in The Guardian last week.