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It started with Oprah. Here’s a look at 5 celebrity book clubs — and some of their top picks
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoCelebrity book clubs. Oprah book club. Reese Witherspoon book club. Jenna Bush Hager book club. Who...
What I Know for Sure: Oprah on How Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth” Changed Her Life
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhat I Know for SureHarpo, Inc./George Burns [Editor’s note: On the 15th anniversary of Oprah’s...
Leila Mottley on Jesmyn Ward, 'Song of Solomon,' and The Books That Everyone Should Read
Elle via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoShelf Life: Leila MottleyILLUSTRATION BY YOUSRA ATTIA Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books...
Oprah says her 100th book club pick 'Hello Beautiful' is 'one of the best books I've read'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt's been a while since Oprah Winfrey started her famous book club in 1996, when her first pick of Jacquelyn Mitchard's "The Deep End of the Ocean" led copies to fly off bookshelves. Now, the ...
Oprah selects SW FL author Nathan Hill for her latest book club pick. What to know
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA Southwest Florida author recently learned perhaps the best surprise in his writing career: Oprah...
'I have a lot of time': Oakland poet-novelist phenom Leila Mottley, 19, has just begun
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLeila Mottley, 2018 Oakland youth poet laureate, has just published her debut novel,...
Susan Cain Shares Her Bittersweet Playlist
The Oprah Magazine via AOL· 1 year agoSusan Cain, author of the 99th Oprah Book Club pick, "Bittersweet," shares the wistful, deeply emotional songs that connect us with each other in our...
Grammy would put Viola Davis in coveted ‘EGOT’ category if she wins for narrating memoir ‘Finding...
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoViola Davis’ first time up at the Grammys could land her in the EGOT pantheon. Already an Emmy, Oscar and Tony Award winner, the 57-year-old actress and producer garnered a Grammy Award nomination ...
The Iowa City Book Festival is a playground for literary minds
Iowa City Press-Citizen via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIowa City is widely known as a paradise for literature, whether for aspiring authors or published...
How Barbara Kingsolver makes literature topical — from climate change to opioids
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn 1988, a friend passed me her tub-bubbled copy of Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel, “The Bean Trees.” The book had me at Line 1. “I have been afraid of putting air in a tire,” Kingsolver wrote ...