Balancing her vivacious, outgoing personality with her desire to be taken seriously, she overcame every obstacle in her way: insecurity, an eating disorder, being typecast, sexism.challenges, and how she dealt with them, setting the tone for the rest of her career.

This book is.”īeginning in early childhood, Couric was inspired by her journalist father to pursue the career he loved but couldn’t afford to stay in. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too. Of the medium she loves, the one that made her a household name, she says, “Television can put you in a box the flat-screen can flatten. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life - a story she’s never shared, until now. See /listener for privacy information.Heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest, Going There is the deeply personal life story of a girl next door turned household name.įor more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. You can also find out where Katie is stopping on her book tour and how to get tickets by going to /goingthere. You can buy “Going There,” by Katie Couric, on Amazon, your local bookstore or wherever you like to buy books. The three talk about how they all met, the writing and research process, holing up in Katie’s house during the pandemic and how some of the most personal (and controversial) moments of the book came to be. It’s finally here! To celebrate the release of Katie Couric’s memoir “Going There,” Next Question with Katie Couric is releasing the first of two very exciting, podcast exclusive, behind the book episodes! This week, part 1 of the making of “Going There.” Katie introduces you to her “Going There” team - Lucy Kaylin and Adriana Fazio - two incredibly thoughtful people so perfectly suited to this project, it’s almost weird.

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