The Cut - Katie Couric Is Not for Everyone

In the weeks before the publication of her memoir, Going There, Katie Couric and I would play a dark little game called Funny or Fucked Up? Over coffee, lunch, and Zoom calls, I would bring up an anecdote from the book — like, say, the first sentence, which is about the time she ate so many carrots in the summer after college that her skin turned orange — and ask her what, exactly, her reader was supposed to make of it. The carrots were on account of the Scarsdale diet, the deprivational fad to which the 22-year-old Couric had committed because her plan “was to look as good as possible for my wet hot American summer” before “finding a job — maybe even a career — in TV news.”

Did you know that all New York City public school families are eligible for an internet service credit of up to $50 a month, plus a one-time discount of up to $100 on a computer? Get yours. Let’s write-in this local teen who launched a magazine promoting Brooklyn’s small businesses for mayor. Some of these crazy SATC reboot outfits have got to just be trolling us, right? This Texas school won’t let boys wear their hair long, so the ACLU is suing. The Little Lad (yes, this one) got the fashion treatment in Paper Mag and we don’t use this world lightly but … that’s insane? Harry Styles isn’t the leader of a fashion revolution, but neither is Billy Porter. And the always-highly-readable Arthur C. Brooks says that the meaning of life is actually surprisingly simple.

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