Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where we spotlight upcoming releases that we are anticipating.

Nonfiction – Memoir
Release Date June 3, 2014
Publisher: Knopf
274 Pages
Affiliate Link: Buy from Amazon

My Salinger Year was Bookpage.com’s Nonfiction Top Pick for June 2014 and their review got me so excited to read this book! The prospect of another Miranda Priestley-type boss sounds deliciously juicy and I always love stories about young girls trying to “make it” in NYC. Not to mention the setting of the literary agency representing not only Salinger, but F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner.

Plot Summary from Amazon
A memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing, where a young woman finds herself entangled with one of the last great figures of the century.

At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-time agents doze at their desks after martini lunches. At night she goes home to the tiny, threadbare Williamsburg apartment she shares with her socialist boyfriend. Precariously balanced between glamour and poverty, surrounded by titanic personalities, and struggling to trust her own artistic instinct, Rakoff is tasked with answering Salinger’s voluminous fan mail. But as she reads the candid, heart-wrenching letters from his readers around the world, she finds herself unable to type out the agency’s decades-old form response. Instead, drawn inexorably into the emotional world of Salinger’s devotees, she abandons the template and begins writing back. Over the course of the year, she finds her own voice by acting as Salinger’s, on her own dangerous and liberating terms.

What book are you waiting for?