Stay tuned for Katie’s new summer book series!
Next Question with Katie Couric
Katie Couric Media
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🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
It’s summer! And here on Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie’s celebrating the shortest season with a fun series on books! But not just any books — memoirs!. Katie just finished writing her own memoir (which comes out this October — stay tuned!), so she wanted to spend time with other people who have shared their stories and put themselves on the page. She has a huge range of guests from actors Sharon Stone and Justin Baldoni to business leaders and entrepreneurs like former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, Sarah Jakes and Amanda Kloots, and the memoir boss herself, Mary Karr. There’s so much to discuss, too: the pain of writing, the revelations of looking back on your life, and the triumphs of TMI. New episodes start July 1.
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| 0:00.0 | This summer on Next Question with me, Katie Correct, |
| 0:04.0 | I'm celebrating the shortest season with the fun summer series on books and not just any books. |
| 0:11.0 | I just love that single voice kind of crying out in the wilderness of life experience. |
| 0:18.0 | Memoirs! I just finished writing my own memoir, which comes out this October. |
| 0:24.0 | So I wanted to spend some time with other people who have shared their stories and put themselves on the page. |
| 0:31.0 | I have such an interesting range of guests. People you might know, like Sharon Stone. |
| 0:37.0 | I think the whole world is probably aware of how much I didn't have boundaries. |
| 0:42.0 | Or admire, like former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns. |
| 0:46.0 | I think that this is the dream of America embodied in my mother. She did it. |
| 0:51.0 | Or have followed from afar, like Amanda Clutz. |
| 0:55.0 | I didn't hug him, I didn't kiss him, I dropped him off at the corner of Cedar Sinai. |
| 0:59.0 | I don't even know if he said goodbye to Elvis. I mean, we really thought I'd pick him up in a couple hours. |
| 1:05.0 | And there's so much to talk about, the pain of writing. |
| 1:10.0 | It's not like making a movie or, you know, making a show. This is your life. This is you. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm not a writer, I don't pretend to even be one. And when this thing started, I could not believe that I had committed to do this. |
| 1:23.0 | There are sometimes I couldn't even see the keyboard or what I was typing because I was crying so hard. |
| 1:29.0 | The personal revelations. |
| 1:31.0 | It wasn't so strange to bring your kids to a commune like camp in the middle of Canada. |
| 1:38.0 | I was tired of hurting people and I was tired of hurting myself. |
| 1:41.0 | And the triumphs. |
| 1:43.0 | I have for five seconds the control of the narrative about me. |
| 1:48.0 | Whether you love memoirs or looking for some good reads for your much-deserved vacation or just want to escape without leaving your home, |
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