Working: Rebecca Mead on the Challenge of Writing About Herself

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🗓️ 13 February 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week, host June Thomas talks to New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead about her new memoir Home/Land, which traces her experience moving back to Britain after making a home for herself in New York and becoming a U.S. citizen. In the interview, Rebecca discusses the feelings she wanted to capture in the book and describes her impulse to document an important moment in her life. She also explains why Home/Land was more difficult to write than her previous books. After the interview, June and co-host Karen Han talk about the challenges Rebecca faced while writing her book and what we can learn from them. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, June asks Rebecca for some moving tips. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to [email protected] or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Big Mood, Little Mood—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you ready for a Monzo Business Bank account?
0:03.3	Heather from the Accountant's Growth Club was?
0:05.3	Knowing what cash I have is really important.
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0:09.8	It automatically puts 20% of my income into a tax pot.
0:14.0	When it's time to pay your VAT, I always know the money's there.
0:16.8	If you're ready for a Monzo Business account, apply today.
0:19.9	Just search Monzo Business.
0:21.5	Only sole traders or limited company directors in the UK can apply.
0:25.0	Get tax pots with Monzo Business Prove for £5 a month.
0:28.1	Keys and C's apply.
0:35.6	When you do a thing that you've done a lot of
0:37.6	and you have reached a certain level of competency at,
0:41.1	you have a certain pleasure in knowing that you can do what you can do.
0:46.6	And with this, I was constantly anxious and upset that I,
0:52.1	quote, didn't know what I was doing and didn't know whether I could do what I could do.
0:59.1	Hello, and welcome back to Working.
1:02.1	I'm your host, Karen Hahn.
1:04.1	And I'm your other host, June Thomas.
1:06.1	Hi, June.
1:07.1	Who did you talk to this week?
1:09.1	This week's guest is Rebecca Meade.
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