Word: oprah
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...greatest force in publishing today, with the power to raise authors from the dead (Leo Tolstoy) or crucify them on the national stage (James Frey). The all-powerful Oprah Book Club is not so much a club as a ruthlessly influential marketing vehicle, with the power to fundamentally alter best-seller lists, Amazon rankings and royalty payments. Sure, the "club" has 2 million "members" and a web site that provides a space for users to share thoughts on featured titles, read excerpts and get advice like, "How to Read a Hard Book." But in the 12 years Oprah's Book...
...time Oprah Winfrey announced publicly on Sept. 19 that her club's newest title would be The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, a book about a mute boy and his dogs by a first-time novelist - albeit a critical darling - its publisher had already ordered 750,000 "Oprah versions" from the printers. Boxes of these freshly minted tomes, with the Oprah's Book Club seal affixed to the covers - and a unique ISBN number to ensure accurate tracking of sales - were already on their way to bookstores across the country. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by software designer David Wroblewski, debuted...
Novel about dogs is named next OPRAH book-club pick...
...book, Dewey: The Small-Town Library CAT Who Touched the World. But not Oprah...
...empty suit, a tax-and-spend liberal, an arugula-grazing élitist and a corrupt ward heeler, but the attacks that nearly derailed him involved the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, attacks designed to portray Obama as an angry black man. White America has embraced unthreatening African Americans like Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith and Colin Powell, but this is still a majority-white country, and Obama does not want to be stereotyped as a race man like Malcolm X. In a media climate in which "working class" and "small town" and "ordinary" voters still mean white voters, angry white candidates...