“I had to familiarize myself,” she explains. She’s talking about being an open book because we’re here to talk about her book, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History, a copy of which she pulls out of her pocket. “Confess? Attest? There’s the word I’m looking for!”Ĭandid, folksy, a little bit scrappy, a little bit cocky, and occasionally tongue-tied-this is peak Katy Tur. I’m a bit of an open book, as anyone who knows me would contest.” She tries again. Later, she admits: “I don’t hold a lot to the vest. “Do you ever wake up feeling like you’re hungover even though you haven’t had anything to drink?” she wonders, moments after sliding into the seat across from me at a restaurant on Rockefeller Center’s subterranean lower concourse, where we meet for breakfast one sunny late August morning, post- Harvey and pre- Irma, post- Charlottesville and pre- DACA. Within 10 minutes or so of my meeting MSNBC anchor Katy Tur, she’s divulged her current weight, recent digestive woes, a lifelong history of high cholesterol, and her special talent for handling men with strong personalities whom other people find off-putting.
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