Joanna Rakoff
Former Staff
Joanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir "My Salinger Year" and the bestselling novel "A Fortunate Age," winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction and the Elle Readers’ Prize.
Recently published
'Gilmore Girls' is more than a comfort watch
Rory Gilmore is the first television character to traverse the world as an unapologetic reader, writes Joanna Rakoff. She’s also the first small screen heroine to be celebrated, rather than...
Someone you know relies on SNAP. They just don't talk about it
Two years before she went on public assistance, Joanna Rakoff had a best-selling novel that won literary awards. She presented like a middle class working mom. But in reality, she...
Diane Keaton and me
Diane Keaton possessed the comfort and grace to be herself -- to blithely accept her shortcomings as an integral part of her character, her persona. I wanted to do that...