But what if my old boss is pissed? Episode 305: Workplace Memoir with Cate Doty

Y&#8217;all, it&#8217;s an uber-informative, down in the trenches episode about writing memoir when it feels like your topic is on the lighter side&#8212;but of course, no truly successful memoir ever stays on the surface. Cate Doty is the author of <a href="https://bit.ly/3mn44ZO">Mergers and Acquisitions: Or, Everything I Know About Love I Learned on the Wedding Pages</a>. She is a writer and former editor at The New York Times, where she covered the news of food, weddings, business, New York, and more. <br/><br/>To write Mergers and Acquisitions, Cate had to look at what was in some ways an obvious story&#8212;I fell in love at the NYT while working on the Wedding pages!&#8212;to the real story of growing up in an iconic newsroom and learning about what makes relationships get as far as the wedding pages&#8212;and then get past that one day. She had to find ways to dig into her past, and to write about real people she still loves and respects (and a few she doesn&#8217;t). And she had to accept that writing about the NYT probably means you&#8217;re not working there again.<br/><br/>And then she had to answer all my questions about it! You&#8217;re going to love it.<br/><br/>Links from the pod:<br/><br/>Jenny 8. Lee&#8217;s memoir <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780446698979">The Fortune Cookie Chronicles</a><br/><br/><a href="https://www.littlechurch.org/">The little church around the corner</a><br/><br/>#AmReading<br/><br/>Cate:<br/><br/>Kaye Gibbons: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781616203023">Ellen Foster</a>, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780945575337">A Cure for Dreams</a>, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780060760250">Charms for an Easy Life</a><br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780525537458">Having and Being Had</a>, Eula Biss<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780316428262">Learning in Public</a>, Courtney E. Martin<br/><br/>KJ:<br/><br/><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780593201671">Arsenic and Adobo</a>, Mia P. Manansala<br/><br/>Other books w