Speaker 1: This summer. On next Question with Me, Katie Couric, I'm
Speaker 1: celebrating the shortest season with the fun Summer series on books,
Speaker 1: and not just any books. I just love that single
Speaker 1: voice kind of crying out in the wilderness of life
Speaker 1: experience memoirs. I just finished writing my own memoir, which
Speaker 1: comes out this October, so I wanted to spend some
Speaker 1: time with other people who have shared their stories and
Speaker 1: put themselves on the page. And I have such an
Speaker 1: interesting range of guests, people you might know, like Sharon Stone.
Speaker 1: I think the whole world is probably aware of how
Speaker 1: much I didn't have boundaries or admire like former Xerox
Speaker 1: CEO or Sula Burns. I think that this is the
Speaker 1: dream of America embodied in my mother. She did it
Speaker 1: or have followed from Afar like Amanda Klutz. I didn't
Speaker 1: hug him, I didn't kiss him. I dropped him off
Speaker 1: at the corner of Cedar SINAI. I don't even know
Speaker 1: if he said goodbye to Elvis. I mean, we really
Speaker 1: thought i'd pick him up in a couple of hours.
Speaker 1: And there's so much to talk about the pain of writing.
Speaker 1: It's not like making a movie or you know, making
Speaker 1: a show, This is your life, this is you. I'm
Speaker 1: not a writer, I don't pretend to even be one,
Speaker 1: and when this thing started, I could not believe that
Speaker 1: I had committed to do this. There were sometimes I
Speaker 1: couldn't even see the keyboard or what I was typing
Speaker 1: because I was crying so hard. The personal revelations. It
Speaker 1: wasn't so strange to bring your kids to a commune
Speaker 1: like camp in the middle of Canada. I was tired
Speaker 1: of hurting people, and I was tired of hurting myself
Speaker 1: and the triumphs I have for five seconds the control
Speaker 1: of the narrative about me. Whether you love memoirs, are
Speaker 1: looking for some good reads for your much deserved vacation,
Speaker 1: or just want to escape without leaving your home, We've
Speaker 1: got it all for you right here on Next Question.
Speaker 1: New weekly episodes of my summer series launched July one.
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Speaker 1: Buckle up,