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Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America

Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America

by KathleenRooney (Author)

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    Hardcover 2005

    $35.10
Synopsis

Exploring the myths and presuppositions surrounding the Oprah Book Club, this text reveals its complex and far-reaching cultural influence, confronting head-on how the club became a crucible for the heated clash between 'high' and 'low' literary taste.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 234
 Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
Published: 15 Feb 2005
ISBN 10: 1557287821
ISBN 13: 9781557287823

Media Reviews
Rooney takes a steady, smart look at a situation that is both fascinating in its own right and deeply revealing about 'how it is' in our cultural life these days. --Sven Birkerts, author of The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In her lively, information-filled account of the club's history, Rooney . . . defends Oprah as a genuine 'intellectual force.' . . . Accurately captures the cultural unrest surrounding the Oprah Book Club and raises numerous thoughtful points about its significance. --Publishers Weekly Rooney's analysis of the Oprah Book Club is both incisive and sympathetic, both scholarly in its methodology and accessible in its presentation. Anyone interested in the multiple diversities which characterize twenty-first century American culture will find Reading with Oprah provocative and entertaining. --Tara Ghoshal Wallace, author of Jane Austen and Narrative Authority
Rooney takes a steady, smart look at a situation that is both fascinating in its own right and deeply revealing about how it is in our cultural life these days. Sven Birkerts, author of The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age In her lively, information-filled account of the club s history, Rooney . . . defends Oprah as a genuine intellectual force. . . . Accurately captures the cultural unrest surrounding the Oprah Book Club and raises numerous thoughtful points about its significance. Publishers Weekly Rooney s analysis of the Oprah Book Club is both incisive and sympathetic, both scholarly in its methodology and accessible in its presentation. Anyone interested in the multiple diversities which characterize twenty-first century American culture will find Reading with Oprah provocative and entertaining. Tara Ghoshal Wallace, author of Jane Austen and Narrative Authority
Author Bio
Kathleen Rooney photo by Jeff Wood Kathleen Rooney is a writing instructor at Emerson College. Winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize in 2004 and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine, she is editor of Redivider and has published a number of poems, articles, and reviews in the Nation, the Harvard Review, the Boston Review, Puerto Del Sol, and Cimarron Review. This book grew out of an article she wrote for the Nation about her visit to the show where Winfrey announced the end of the book club.