Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America
Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America
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与奥普拉一起读书：改变美国的读书俱乐部
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10.5860/choice.42-6321a
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2005
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Kathleen Rooney
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作者：
Kathleen Rooney
奥普拉读书俱乐部自 1996 年成立以来，既受到粉丝的喜爱，又受到评论家的谴责，一直处于有关文化权威和文学品味争论的中心。《与奥普拉一起阅读》探讨了该俱乐部将书籍、电视和商业的革命性融合，讲述了 OBC 现象引人入胜且深入的故事。凯瑟琳·鲁尼 (Kathleen Rooney) 将广泛的研究与充满活力的声音相结合，揭示了该俱乐部深远的文化影响及其作为严峻考验的角色。这本书内容全面且与时俱进，涵盖了俱乐部从 1996 年成立到乔纳森·弗兰岑 (Jonathan Franzen) 的意外事件、2002 年令人惊讶的暂停，以及俱乐部 2003 年回归后从“伟大的书籍”到回忆录的进展。新材料包括对詹姆斯·弗雷丑闻和奥普拉转向当代小说的广泛审视，其中包括《道路与米德尔塞克斯》。通过仔细审视温弗瑞的选择以及对读书俱乐部作者和读者的个人采访，鲁尼展示了芭芭拉·金索尔弗所说的“电视机的最佳用途之一”的俱乐部如何“让各个年龄段的人阅读，阅读更多，并广泛阅读。”
Adored by its fans, deplored by its critics, Oprah's Book Club has been at the center of arguments about cultural authority and literary taste since it began in 1996. "Reading with Oprah" explores the club's revolutionary fusion of books, television, and commerce and tells the engaging and in-depth story of the OBC phenomenon.Kathleen Rooney combines extensive research with a dynamic voice to reveal the club's far-reaching cultural impact and its role as crucible for the clash between "high" and "low" literary taste.Comprehensive and up-to-date, the book covers the club from its inception in 1996, through the Jonathan Franzen contretemps, the surprising suspension in 2002, and, after the club's return in 2003, the progression from "great books" to memoir. New material includes an extensive look at the James Frey scandal and Oprah's turn to contemporary fiction, including "The Road and Middlesex".Through close examination of Winfrey's picks and personal interviews with book club authors and readers, Rooney demonstrates how the club that Barbara Kingsolver calls "one of the best possible uses of a television set" has, according to Wally Lamb, "gotten people of all ages to read, to read more, and to read widely. "