In 'Going There,' Katie Couric lays out her life in intimate detail
"On TV, you are larger than life but somehow smaller, too, a neatly cropped version of who you are," writes Katie Couric in a new memoir, teasingly titled Going There. "Real life — the complications and contradictions, the messy parts— remains outside the frame."
Television, she writes, "is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. This book is."
Excerpts of the book, out on Tuesday, have been leaked to tabloids, which in past days have been running plenty of breathless coverage "torches" or "eviscerates" various celebrities and professional rivals. Much of this is quoted shamelessly out of context, but the "there" of does turn out to encompass a lot of intimate details of Couric's life: She's open about industry sexism, professional rivalries, the death of her first husband, and her relationship with former co-anchor Matt Lauer, who was fired after allegations of sexual misconduct.
