S1, E7: The Literary Edit Podcast with Joanna Rakoff

For the seventh episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the wonderful Joanna Rakoff. Her first book, the charming memoir My Salinger Year, has recently been adapted to the big screen starring Sigourney Weaver.   You can read about Esther’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:   The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton On Beauty by Zadie Smith Howard’s End by E. M. Forster Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Passing by Nella Larsen Le Divorce by Diane Johnson Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin   Other books we spoke about included Joanna’s books My Salinger Year and A Fortunate Age, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pychon, Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld, Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and Persian Nights by Diane Johnson.   If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice. To contact me, email [email protected]   Facebook The Literary Edit   Instagram: @the_litedit @joannarakoff   Twitter: @thelitedit @jrakoff