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WORK TITLE: SEE JANE WIN
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BIRTHDATE: 1984?
WEBSITE: www.caitlinmoscatello.com
CITY: New York
STATE: NY
COUNTRY: United States
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PERSONAL
Born c. 1984; married; children: one son.
EDUCATION:Boston University, B.S.; Columbia University, master’s degree.
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CAREER
Writer, journalist, and editorial consultant. Has worked for magazines as an editorial director and interim executive editor. Founder of the REPRO newsletter; United Nations press fellow.
AWARDS:Front Page Award, 2016; Media Excellence Award, Planned Parenthood.
WRITINGS
Contributor of articles to publications and websites, including the Cut, Refinery29, GQ, Elle, Salon, Slate, Conde Nast Traveler, Glamour, and Time.
SIDELIGHTS
Caitlin Moscatello is a writer, journalist, and editorial consultant. She has written articles that have appeared in publications and on websites, including the Cut, Refinery29, GQ, Elle, Salon, Slate, Conde Nast Traveler, Glamour, and Time. Moscatello is also the founder of the newsletter, REPRO, and has served as a press fellow at the United Nations. She has received awards for her work, including the Front Page Award and the Planned Parenthood Media Excellence Award.
Moscatello is the coauthor, with Elizabeth Meyer, of Meyer’s 2015 memoir, Good Mourning. In this volume, Meyer recalls her work in the funeral industry. She explains that she first became inspired to work in the industry after dealing with her own father’s death. The memoir focuses specifically on the time Meyer spent working at the posh Crawford Funeral Home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Her boss, Tony, could be brusque, but he saw Meyer’s value as a liaison with the well-heeled clients of the funeral parlor. She grew up in the same social circles, so she related to them better than some of the other staff members did. Meyer was quickly promoted and took on the job of planning lavish funerals for the rich and famous, and she dealt with her share of difficult situations during her tenure at the funeral home.
A reviewer on the Book’d Out website commented: “Good Mourning is a quick, interesting and entertaining read, and Elizabeth Meyer shares her story with honesty, humour, and compassion.” “Meyer injects a healthy dose of humor into what could otherwise be a morbid topic,” asserted a Publishers Weekly critic. The same critic added: “It’s a story well suited to the big screen.” Eloise Kinney, contributor to Booklist, suggested: “For a book about death and its attendant services, this is actually a sweet, touching, and funny read.”
See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics is a nonfiction volume by Moscatello, in which she focuses on the 2018 elections, during which many women were elected to political office. Among the women she profiles are London Lamar, Cataline Cruz, Anna Eskamni, and Abigail Spanberger. Meyer discusses the various challenges that women face and highlights ways and reasons many are becoming successful in politics.
A Publishers Weekly writer described See Jane Win as “rousing” and remarked: “This optimistic and well-reported look at the post-Trump blue wave will inspire progressive readers.” A contributor to Kirkus Reviews commented: “Moscatello optimistically and realistically balances a blend of demographics and anecdotes from the candidates and politicians, painting a provocative picture about the impact of equalizing representation in the American political world.”
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PERIODICALS
Booklist, June 1, 2015, Eloise Kinney, review of Good Mourning, p. 28.
Good Housekeeping, August, 2015, “True Stories about Loss, Resilience and Finding Peace in an Unlikely Place,” review of Good Mourning, p. 81.
Kirkus Reviews, June 15, 2019, review of See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics.
Publishers Weekly, May 25, 2015, review of Good Mourning, p. 48; June 3, 2019, review of See Jane Win, p. 54.
ONLINE
Book’d Out, https://bookdout.wordpress.com/ (August 21, 2015), review of Good Mourning.
Caitlin Moscatello website, https://caitlinmoscatello.com/ (July 22, 2019).
Caitlin Moscatello is a writer and journalist covering gender, politics, and reproductive health/rights.
Her forthcoming book about women running for office in the 2018 election, SEE JANE WIN, will be published by Penguin Random House’s Dutton imprint on August 27, 2019. Her writing has appeared in print and/or online versions of New York Magazine's The Cut, GQ, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Refinery29, Conde Nast Traveler, Salon, Slate, and TIME, among other outlets. In 2017, she was nominated for a National Magazine Award, and in 2016, she was the recipient of a Front Page Award. She was also selected as a United Nations press fellow, reporting on women's health issues.
A former magazine editor, Caitlin also does editorial consulting, and has held interim Executive Editor and Editorial Director positions at some of the largest media companies in the world, elevating online storytelling, expanding writer networks, and strategizing content across platforms. She's the founder of REPRO, a newsletter about reproductive rights restrictions at the state and federal levels. Caitlin has a B.S. from Boston University and a Master's in journalism from Columbia University, and lives in Manhattan with her husband, son, and dog.
optimistically and realistically balances a blend of demographics and anecdotes from the candidates and politicians, painting a provocative picture about the impact of equalizing representation in the American political world. Memorable stories and illustrative data combine in a pertinent political and cultural analysis.”–Kirkus (Starred)
“With the upcoming 2020 presidential race and other recent high-profile elections, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers, especially women and teen girls who are intrigued by the wave of female candidates who are changing the face of the American government.”
—Booklist
“In this rousing debut, journalist Moscatello follows left-wing women who ran for American public office for the first time in the 2018 midterms… This optimistic and well-reported look at the post-Trump blue wave will inspire progressive readers.”
—Publishers Weekly
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About the Author
Caitlin Moscatello is a journalist and writer covering gender, reproductive rights, and politics, who has been reporting on the surge of female candidates since it began in early 2017. In recent years, she has been nominated for a National Magazine Award; received a Front Page Award and a Planned Parenthood Media Excellence Award; and has been a United Nations press fellow reporting on women’s health issues. She’s also the founder of Repro, a newsletter about reproductive rights legislation at the state and federal levels. Moscatello’s writing has appeared in outlets including The Cut, Elle, Medium, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Glamour, Refinery29, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Sports Illustrated, Fast Company, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She lives in Manhattan.
Caitlin Moscatello is a journalist and writer covering gender, reproductive rights, and politics. In recent years, she has been nominated for a National Magazine Award; received a Front Page Award and Planned Parenthood's Media Excellence Award; and has been a United Nations Press Fellow reporting on women's health issues. She's also the founder of REPRO, a newsletter about reproductive rights legislation. Moscatello's writing has appeared in outlets such as The Cut, Elle, Medium, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Glamour, Refinery29, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Sports Illustrated, Fast Company, and O: The Oprah Magazine. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and son.
Caitlin Moscatello is a journalist and writer covering gender, reproductive rights, and politics, who has been reporting on the surge of female candidates since it began in early 2017. In recent years, she has been nominated for a National Magazine Award; received a Front Page Award and a Planned Parenthood Media Excellence Award; and has been a United Nations press fellow reporting on women’s health issues. She’s also the founder of Repro, a newsletter about reproductive rights legislation at the state and federal levels. Moscatello’s writing has appeared in outlets including The Cut, Elle, Medium, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Glamour, Refinery29, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Sports Illustrated, Fast Company, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She lives in Manhattan.
QUOTED: "Moscatello optimistically and realistically balances a blend of demographics and anecdotes from the candidates and politicians, painting a provocative picture about the impact of equalizing representation in the American political world."
Moscatello, Caitlin: SEE JANE WIN
Kirkus Reviews. (June 15, 2019):
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Moscatello, Caitlin SEE JANE WIN Dutton (Adult Nonfiction) $28.00 8, 27 ISBN: 978-1-5247-4292-8
Journalist Moscatello provides a close-up view of women's journeys from activists to candidates and politicians in recent U.S. elections.
Though she explores multiple political races, which she covered in articles for New York magazine's The Cut, Glamour, and Elle, the author goes deepest in her accounts of those involving Abigail Spanberger, Anna Eskamani, Catalina Cruz, and London Lamar. Noting the influx of Democratic voices and wins, Moscatello also attends to the ways in which Sarah Palin's candidacy may have influenced how women run for office. Centering on the 2018 blue wave of women, the author explores the challenges and benefits of political representation within an increasingly diverse nation. Her analysis of specific barriers and needs of women of color and, to a lesser extent, trans and queer women adds an important dimension to her critique. She squarely addresses multiple layers of intersectional biases women face, exposing how racism, homophobia, classism, and sexism may impact candidates. The result broadens conversations about political engagement and clarifies how diverse voices strengthen the political landscape regardless of party affiliation. Without situating trends as facts, Moscatello casts these changes as natural extensions of the work many women are doing already in resisting threats to health care, attacks on Planned Parenthood, political stagnation on gun control, and a host of other related issues. The author considers the numerous complexities of navigating male political norms and how to effectively acknowledge the importance of motherhood, disrupt the dress code, and address media hostility toward female voices, demeanors, and appearances. While the percent of women in office has been relatively static prior to the recent influx, Moscatello optimistically and realistically balances a blend of demographics and anecdotes from the candidates and politicians, painting a provocative picture about the impact of equalizing representation in the American political world.
Memorable stories and illustrative data combine in a pertinent political and cultural analysis.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Moscatello, Caitlin: SEE JANE WIN." Kirkus Reviews, 15 June 2019. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A588726897/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=47991d29. Accessed 13 July 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A588726897
QUOTED: "rousing."
"This optimistic and well-reported look at the post-Trump blue wave will inspire progressive readers."
See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics
Publishers Weekly. 266.22 (June 3, 2019): p54.
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See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics
Caitlin Moscatello. Dutton, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4292-8
In this rousing debut, journalist Moscatello follows left-wing women who ran for American public office for the first time in the 2018 midterms. She focuses mainly on four women: Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA agent, ousted the Republic incumbent in Virginia's seventh congressional district, flipping the district blue for the first time since the 1960s and becoming the first woman ever to hold the office. Pro-choice activist Anna Eskamani won a formerly Republican-held seat in Florida's House of Representatives. London Lamar, running for a seat in the Tennessee State House, filed anti-voter suppression lawsuits after she discovered that fewer sites than planned would be open during the early voting period. Lawyer Catalina Cruz became the first undocumented person ever elected to New York's State Assembly after taking down an incumbent supported by the Democratic Party. Moscatello follows these and other women candidates as they fund-raise, canvass, handle online trolling, work part-time, parent--and win. Along the way, she analyzes primaries, the effect of the #MeToo movement, and Brett Kavanaugh's rise to the Supreme Court. This optimistic and well-reported look at the post-Trump blue wave will inspire progressive readers. Agent: Daniel Greenberg, Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency. (Aug.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics." Publishers Weekly, 3 June 2019, p. 54. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A588990744/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=de7bcfce. Accessed 13 July 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A588990744
True stories about loss, resilience and finding peace in an unlikely place
Good Housekeeping. 261.2 (Aug. 2015): p81.
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Good Mourning by Elizabeth Meyer, with Caitlin Moscatello.
Still grieving her dad's death, Meyer got a job at a famed NYC funeral home (of all places). Oddly enough, as she charmingly reveals, it helped her heal. $25
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College track recruit Korra bravely recounts the brutal gang rape she endured near Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 2009. Read an excerpt at goodhouse keeping.com/korra. $25
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Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"True stories about loss, resilience and finding peace in an unlikely place." Good Housekeeping, Aug. 2015, p. 81. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A426765707/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=a454a820. Accessed 13 July 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A426765707
QUOTED: "For a book about death and its attendant services, this is actually a sweet, touching, and funny read."
Good Mourning
Eloise Kinney
Booklist. 111.19-20 (June 1, 2015): p28.
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Good Mourning. By Elizabeth Meyer and Caitlin Moscatello.
Aug. 2015.288p. Gallery, $24.99 (9781476783611); e-book (9781476783659). 363.7.
The untimely death of Meyer's beloved father got her thinking. Shortly thereafter, though she didn't need the money, she took a job as a secretary at Crawford, New York City's funeral home to the stars, discovering that she had "a gift for planning last hurrahs for the richest of the rich (and sometimes the craziest of the crazy)." Despite her friends' dismay, her mother's and brother's concern, and her socialite grandmother's unveiled disgust, Meyer finessed her job from answering the phone to helping out--party planning, in a way--for dead rock stars, politicians, the wealthy and elite, and more; as she points out, "We're all going to die." For a book about death and its attendant services, this is actually a sweet, touching, and funny read. Meyer is truly likable, a great storyteller (with coauthor Moscatello), and loves what she does. While her twentysomething friends are jetting to parties in London or tossing down thousands for bar bills, Meyer is comforting the bereaved and throwing their loved ones memorials they would have truly enjoyed. A lighthearted, moving glimpse into the almost beyond.--Eloise Kinney
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Kinney, Eloise. "Good Mourning." Booklist, 1 June 2015, p. 28. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A421080139/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=b1c5548f. Accessed 13 July 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A421080139
QUOTED: "Meyer injects a healthy dose of humor into what could otherwise be a morbid topic."
"It's a story well suited to the big screen."
Good Mourning: A Memoir
Publishers Weekly. 262.21 (May 25, 2015): p48+.
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* Good Mourning: A Memoir
Elizabeth Meyer, with Caitlin Moscatello.
S&S/Gallery, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-47678361-1
If Carrie Bradshaw worked in a funeral home a la Six Feet Under, her story would look something like Meyer's charming memoir about her tenure planning funerals at Crawford, an elite funeral parlor in Manhattan where the Upper East Side socialites she grew up around plan their ultimate farewell parties. After her father's death, she begins searching for meaning in her own life, and the path leads her, surprisingly, to a calling to work with the dead. At Crawford, she faces challenges as a child of privilege trying to fit in with the working-class staff: receptionists snub her and whisper about her behind her back. But she finds respite downstairs with the embalmer, Bill, and her kind if brusque boss, Tony, who soon offers her a promotion and an office of her own after she proves to be indispensable to Crawford's rich and famous clientele. Soon Meyer discovers her deep capacity for empathy and her desire to help people in their most difficult moments, along with the calling of making each funeral as amazing as any bash in the Hamptons. Meyer injects a healthy dose of humor into what could otherwise be a morbid topic. From saving the day when an important ambassador's body is lost in transit, to gracefully handling intense office drama when she is accused of having an affair with Tony, Meyer takes the high road and concentrates on what becomes a spiritual journey of healing and self-discovery: "I needed to know death. I needed to understand it. I needed to stop fearing it, and my way of doing that was to help other people who were grieving." It's a story well suited to the big screen. (Aug.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Good Mourning: A Memoir." Publishers Weekly, 25 May 2015, p. 48+. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A416116026/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=ac5f6f4a. Accessed 13 July 2019.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A416116026
QUOTED: "Good Mourning is a quick, interesting and entertaining read, and Elizabeth Meyer shares her story with honesty, humour, and compassion."
Review: Good Mourning by Elizabeth Meyer & Caitlin Moscatello
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2015
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by shelleyrae @ Book'd Out in ★★★1/2, Non-Fiction, Provided by Publisher/Author
Title: Good Mourning
Author: Elizabeth Meyer and Caitlin Moscatello
Published: Gallery Books August 2015
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Status: Read from August 19 to 20, 2015 — I own a copy {Courtesy the publisher/netgalley}
My Thoughts:
“When I was twenty-one and most of my friends were Daddy-do-you-know-someone?-ing their way into fancy banks and PR firms, I was grieving the loss of my father, who had just died of cancer. That’s how I found myself in the lobby of Crawford Funeral Home, one of several premier funeral homes in Manhattan, begging for a job one day.”
After finding satisfaction in taking charge of her beloved father’s funeral arrangements, young New York socialite Elizabeth Meyer joins the staff at Crawford Funeral Home despite the objections of family and friends. Though hired as a receptionist, Elizabeth’s curiosity about all aspects of the business, including the mortuary room, and her ability to relate to Crawford’s upscale clientele, soon sees her appointed as the Family Services Coordinator.
Unlike Caitlin Doughty’s memoir Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, published earlier this year, Meyer’s memoir has no real agenda, though she is sincere in her belief that mourners should have the opportunity to create a meaningful funeral experience that honours their loved one.
Good Mourning has a largely lighthearted tone as Meyer shares her experiences at Crawford. From body fluids leaking all over her Gucci shoes, to missing brains, to making arrangements for dozens of Lamborghini’s to line Madison Avenue. She is discrete as she describes the excesses of unnamed celebrity and society funerals, respectful as she tells of families grief, and is matter of fact about the more confronting aspects of the funeral industry.
Eventually tiring of the infighting and corporate ethos plaguing Crawford, Meyer left after a few years, and after further study started her own private consulting firm, helping people to navigate the funeral industry.
Authored with the assistance of freelance writer Caitlin Moscatello, Good Mourning is written in a conversational style. Elizabeth comes across charmingly enthusiastic, and genuinely passionate about her chosen career. Meyer’s instinct for dealing with grieving families is remarkably mature, but her youth is apparent in what she shares of personal life. She has a difficult relationship with her mother, doesn’t understand the hostility directed at her by her colleagues, and takes her wealth and privilege for granted.
Good Mourning is a quick, interesting and entertaining read, and Elizabeth Meyer shares her story with honesty, humour, and compassion.