The Oprah affect : critical essays on Oprah's book club /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Farr, Cecilia Konchar, 1958-, Harker, Jaime
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2008]
Subjects:	Book clubs (Discussion groups) > United States. Books and reading > United States. Literature and society > United States. Winfrey, Oprah > Influence. Oprah Winfrey show (Television program)

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr
Oprah in the public library / Juliette Wells and Virginia Wells
Talking readers / Cecilia Konchar Farr
Reading religiously : the ritual practices of Oprah's book club / Katherine Lofton
The romance of reading like Oprah / Yung-Hsing Wu
Oprah's book selections : teleliterature for the Oprah Winfrey Show / Mark Hall
Resisting Paradise : Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, and the middlebrow audience / Michael Perry
Oprah's book club and the politics of cross-racial empathy / Kimberly Chabot Davis
Beware the furrow of the middlebrow : searching for Paradise on the Oprah Winfrey show / Timothy Aubry
"Did Isabel Allende write this book for me?" : Oprah's book club reads Daughter of fortune / Ana Patricia Rodríquez
The trouble with happy endings : conflicting narratives in Oprah's book club / Kelley Penfield Lewis
Your book changed my life : everyday literary criticism and Oprah's book club / Kate Douglas
Correcting Oprah : Jonathan Franzen and the uses of literature in the therapeutic age / Kevin Quirk
The way we read now : Oprah Winfrey, intellectuals, and democracy / Simon Stow
Everything old is new again : Oprah's book club returns with the classics / Kathleen Rooney
Afterward : Oprah, James Frey, and the problem of the literary / Jaime Harker.