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Joanna Smith Rakoff

Joanna Smith Rakoff
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Joanna Smith Rakoff

Joanna Smith Rakoff has written for The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Vogue, O: The Oprah Magazine, and other publications. She holds a B.A. from Oberlin College; an M.A. from University College, London; and an... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. I'm afraid I don't have one.
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My life in 8 words: "Happy, busy, overly full, well-considered, sometimes chaotic."
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Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. I'm afraid I don't have one. Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be? A. Again, my mind doesn't really work that way. I'm happy being myself. Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be? A. London, wandering around Bloomsbury or Neal's Yard. With plans to visit friends in Yorkshire the next day. Q. What is your biggest pet peeve? A. I really hate the unnecessary use of quotation marks. As in, menus that offer "roast" chicken. Why, why? Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero? A. This is too difficult. I love the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, in Sense and Sensibility, and Gwendolen Harleth from Daniel Deronda. Irene Heron from The Forsyte Saga. And, of course, Jane Eyre. Learn more about Joanna Smith Rakoff

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Robert Burns Celebration Held in Lower Manhattan 1/10
Broadway World, December 19, 2011
...10th 2012, at the Pen Parentis Literary Salon’s Robert Burns Celebration, join poets Marie Howe, Evan and JoAnna Smith Rakoff, Martin MacKinnon, and Tina Chang at the Libertine at Gild Hall (a Thompson Hotel at 15 Gold Street) as they read some of...
A Small Hotel - By Robert Olen Butler - Book Review
New York Times, October 7, 2011
...moment, that we are anything but, as Michael thinks of Kelly, a terrible, everlasting mystery to each other. Joanna Smith Rakoff is the author of the novel “A Fortunate Age...
A Small Hotel
New York Times, October 7, 2011
...moment, that we are anything but, as Michael thinks of Kelly, a terrible, everlasting mystery to each other. Joanna Smith Rakoff is the author of the novel “A Fortunate Age...
The writers who keep popular authors alive
Salon, August 7, 2011
...a well-paying residency is worth telling the truth about another writer's book. It's a dilemma critic Joanna Smith Rakoff has given a lot of thought to since her own first novel, "A Fortunate Age," came out in 2009. A prolific book journalist, she's...
Judge and jury
Salon, July 24, 2011
...a well-paying residency is worth telling the truth about another writer's book. It's a dilemma critic Joanna Smith Rakoff has given a lot of thought to since her own first novel, "A Fortunate Age," came out in 2009. A prolific book journalist, she's...
The Sunday Salon
Bookstack, September 25, 2011
...So we've managed just fine.I've yet to make the complete conversion to e-reading, and brought Joanna Smith Rakoff's A Fortunate Age with me in hardcover. I finished it last night, and started The Swimming Pool, which I had downloaded onto my iPad before...