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...from Cormac McCarthy to Michael Crichton to Haruki Murakami. He is also a twice-published novelist, graphic designer, and comics fanatic - hence Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan. Kidd talked to TIME about his superhero obsession, why books will never die, and the almighty power of Oprah Winfrey...
...covers sell books?I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention to it. But in that sense, Oprah Winfrey is worth all the jackets in the world. A jacket is basically trying to do what she does all on her own. Click here for a gallery of Chip Kidd's greatest book jackets...
...time when modern-day luddites are blaming the decline of our society on the constant glow of computer screens and televisions, but I proudly wear my TV addiction as a badge of honor. Angry mothers ironically appear on Oprah claiming that television is taking away from their family’s quality time, but I remember fondly how TV brings my family together...
...Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees might have been written with the calculation of getting chosen for Oprah's Book Club. (It wasn't, though it did make Good Morning America's reading list.) The 2002 novel is a coming-of-age story about a white girl, Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning), who flees her abusive father and, in the company of her black nanny Rosaleen, finds refuge and surrogate motherhood with three Afro-angelic sisters who run a bee farm. Why did Kidd, a white woman, choose these heroines? "I grew up surrounded by black women," she told...
...Years of Solitude. Winfrey's picks boosted sales: Penguin ordered 800,000 more copies of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina after the 19th-Century Russian novel got the nod. But much of the publishing industry was dismayed at missing the chance to hitch their latest books - and their profits - to Oprah's train. It didn't help that the classics she picked didn't make for great television, the way contemporary authors did - who had the telegenic advantage of being alive...