The Oprah Effect: Critical Essays on Oprah's Book Club

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 /; Kathryn 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 Rodríguez 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 Afterword: Oprah, James Frey, and the Problem of the Literary /; Jaime Harker Oprah's Book Club List