Sarah Jessica Parker about librarians fighting back against the rising tide of book bans.
For Vogue Hickson tagged ten "books that have indelibly shaped her life," including:
My Salinger Year by Joanna RakoffRead about the other entries on the list.
I first read J.D. Salinger’s frequently banned The Catcher in the Rye as a seventh grader. Holden Caulfield’s voice hooked me, and I spent my adolescence becoming a J.D. Salinger completist. Joanna Rakoff’s memoir about the year in her early 20s when she worked in the literary agency that represented Salinger offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the publishing world that he kept at arm’s length. Responsible for shielding Salinger from his incessant fan mail—gatekeeping that silenced readers in its own ironic form of censorship—Rakoff grows to love both the reclusive writer and his wounded correspondents. Her memoir captures that time of life, with one foot leaving adolescence and the other flailing for solid purchase in adulthood, when we begin trying on identities and careers. I loved this book and its forgiving look back at the challenge of finding one’s way.
My Salinger Year was one of Laura Lippman's four favorite reads of 2014.
--Marshal Zeringue
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