Extensive research and an engaging narrative style untangle the myths and presuppositions surrounding the Oprah Book Club and reveal its complex and far-reaching cultural influence, confronting head-on how the club became a crucible for the heated clash between qhighq and qlowq literary taste, with the most extensive analysis yet of the Oprah Winfrey-Jonathan Franzen contretemps.... 20 books I would not have been ashamed of having my name attached to as a judgeaquot; (qtd. in Keller, aquot;Dear Oprahaquot; 1). ... Among them was Erik Wilska, co-owner of the thirty-year-old Bookloft in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, who argued, anbsp;...
Title | : | Reading with Oprah |
Author | : | Kathleen Rooney |
Publisher | : | University of Arkansas Press - 2005 |
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