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A Fortunate AgeA dazzling, instantly compelling first novel that tells the universal story of the starting-out years of six college friends living in Brooklyn.Read More
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National Post, November 14, 2009
...Turner Jason Kieffer Jason Loo Jason Turner Jay McInerney Jennifer Baichwal Jesse Patrick Ferguson Jim Ottaviani Joan Crate Joanna Smith Rakoff Jodi Picoult Joel Yanofsky Joey Comeau John Brady John Malloy John Metcalf John Wray Jose Villarrubia Joseph...
Guardian.co.uk, November 8, 2009
...female writers'. She doesn't exclude herself from this statement, either. Her visceral reaction to A Fortunate Age, Joanna Smith Rakoff's portrait of a post-college group in Brooklyn's hipsterland, leads her to realise that she might become that kind of...
New York Times, October 16, 2009
...in my garret with the blinds down. What have you been reading or recommending lately? I vastly enjoyed Joanna Smith Rakoff?s ?Fortunate Age,? which was smart and fleet and kept just enough surprise by not overstaying its welcome with any one...
Columbia Spectator, September 15, 2009
...From Ash? as part of a panel titled ?Next Texts: Four Debut Novelists.? Shanthi Sekaran, Marc Fitten, and Joanna Smith Rakoff also read from their first novels. The excerpt Mockett read chronicles the life of a mother and daughter in the small...
New York Times, September 9, 2009
...Joanna Smith Rakoff is the author of the novel My novel, ?A Fortunate Age,? starts in 1998, and my characters ? who graduated from college four years earlier ? are very...
The Detroit Free Press, May 24, 2009
...students who come together for a wedding four years after graduation and find their lives intersecting again in Joanna Smith Rakoff's first novel, 'A Fortunate Age.' Like the woman's remark, the book is varyingly smart, cynical and given to well-formed...
Health.com, May 23, 2009
...check out: Jodi Picoult?s new novel, Handle With Care (Atria, 2009; $27.95), A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff (Scribner, 2009; $26), or Love or Something Like It by Deirdre Shaw (Random House, 2009; $22). 3. Order the iced coffee Chill with three...
Newsday, May 6, 2009
...A FORTUNATE AGE, by Joanna Smith Rakoff. Scribner, 402 pp., $26. I've never met Joanna Smith Rakoff, but I would like to. Reading her debut novel, 'A Fortunate Age,' I became convinced she must...
Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2009
...A Fortunate Age A Novel Joanna Smith Rakoff Scribner: 402 pp., $26 I've never met Joanna Smith Rakoff, but I would like to. Reading her debut novel, 'A Fortunate Age,' I became convinced she must...
New York Times, April 10, 2009
...This week: Arthur Phillips on his new novel, ?The Song is You?; Liesl Schillinger on Joanna Smith Rakoff?s ?A Fortunate Age?; Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Charles McGrath is the host,...
Marie Claire, March 28, 2009
...s anchored by the persistent hope that tomorrow will bring relief. Katie Charles ** A FORTUNATE AGE BY JOANNA SMITH RAKOFF (SCRIBNER) Remember how in college you thought that by 35, you'd have your act together? Then you'll feel simpatico with the...
Marie Claire, March 26, 2009
...s anchored by the persistent hope that tomorrow will bring relief. -Katie Charles ** A FORTUNATE AGE BY JOANNA SMITH RAKOFF (SCRIBNER) Remember how in college you thought that by 35, you'd have your act together? Then you'll feel simpatico with the...
PowellsBooks.BLOG, October 15, 2009
...a group. I am a sucker for a book about a group. What reminded me of this was Joanna Smith Rakoff's A Fortunate Age , her homage to Mary McCarthy's endlessly re-readable The Group . And then, too, it makes me think of Couples by John Updike, in many...
New York NY | outside.in, September 13, 2009
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MountainX: Blogs, September 3, 2009
...Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep , Valerie Ann Leff’s Better Homes & Husbands or Elise Blackwell’s Grub , then Joanna Smith Rakoff’s debut novel, A Fortunate Age (Scribner, 2009) is your kind of book . Inspired by Mary McCarthy ‘s 1962 bestseller, The...
PowellsBooks.BLOG, May 22, 2009
...which HarperCollins will publish next year. The Washington Times looks at self-publishing in the digital age . NPR calls Joanna Smith Rakoff's debut novel A Fortunate Age "the long-awaited book that perfectly captures the '90s, that time of social and...
Hermenautic Circle blog, May 11, 2009
...This book is based on an utterly ludicrous premise but I read it through to the end anyway . Joanna Smith Rakoff's A Fortunate Age is addictively readable and I blame it for one (not all) of my recent late nights. (I am surprised the Amazon reviews are...
New York NY | outside.in, April 13, 2009
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Paper Cuts, April 10, 2009
...Book Review Podcast This week: Arthur Phillips on his new novel, “The Song is You”; Liesl Schillinger on Joanna Smith Rakoff’s “A Fortunate Age”; Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Charles...
Book Review, April 10, 2009
...This week: Arthur Phillips, author of “The Song is You”; Liesl Schillinger on Joanna Smith Rakoff’s “A Fortunate Age”; Motoko Rich with Notes From the Field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Charles McGrath is host, filling in for...
Southern California Writers' Conference, March 26, 2009
...publishing world it’s all about visibility. Regardless, it does speak well of the business savvy of author Joanna Smith Rakoff: From The New York Observer ’s Leon Neyfakh: Joanna Smith Rakoff had just turned in a major set of rewrites on her...
Bookninja, March 26, 2009
...for the midlist catalo—er, I mean, publicists to use.” That would suck, wouldn’t it? Hypothetically speaking ? Joanna Smith Rakoff had just turned in a major set of rewrites on her novel, Brooklyn , when her editor at Scribner broke the news to her...
Survival of the Book, February 19, 2009
...moving to Scribner , where she is an editor, in 2002. Her authors include Matt Bondurant, Adam Gollner, and Joanna Smith Rakoff. (The 2nd Scribner editor I've mentioned today, though the first is no longer there...) RICHARD NASH worked as a performance...
Jewish Book Council Blog, January 30, 2009
...Horn) April Rhyming Life & Death (Amos Oz) April Amos Oz Reader (Amos Oz) April A Fortunate Age (Joanna Smith Rakoff) April The Scenic Route (Binnie Kirshenbaum) May Soon…very soon… Posted in Jewish Books Tagged: A Fortunate Age, Aharon...
The Millions, November 25, 2008
...which is no doubt part of the reason why it inspired A Fortunate Age , a forthcoming debut by Joanna Smith Rakoff . From Booklist : Like the classic novel it so obviously pays homage to, Mary McCarthy's The Group , Rakoff's mesmerizing debut opens with a...
