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Jon Stewart returns from the break with new author interviews:
Wednesday, Dec. 2
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Thursday, Dec. 3
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Spector recently appeared on a CBS Sunday Morning feature about the safety of flu vaccine. He’s also been interviewed on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday and the book was reviewed in the New York Times as well as in the NYT Book Review. Holds continue to be heavy in many libraries.
A tearful Oprah explained her decision to say “goodbye” live on her show Friday.
Well, not goodbye quite yet — the show continues through September 9, 2011; quite a long goodbye. The Oprah site is already featuring her “Top Twenty Moments” (a lot of weeping and, yes, the Book Club is one of the moments and, no, the Sarah Palin interview is not, nor is Tom Cruise’s).
Actually, we may be saying hello to even more Oprah in the future, as the Discovery Network Health channel morphs into the Oprah Winfrey cable network, OWN, in January 2011. Officially, Oprah has said she will not bring the Oprah Winfrey Show to the Oprah Winfrey Network, but news sources, such as the LA Times, are already predicting she will do a daily show on OWN.
It looks like it may be real this time. Oprah told her staff yesterday that her last show will be on Sept 9, 2011. She will make an official announcement on her show today.
According to reports, she wants to concentrate on her cable network, OWN (the Oprah Winfrey Network, natch), planned for launch in January, 2011. Variety reports,
Insiders said new episodes of The Oprah Winfrey Show won’t be moving to OWN, but Winfrey will have a daily presence on the channel via series, specials or promos.
At the very least, OWN will have the rights to the entire 25-year Oprah Winfrey Show catalog beginning in September 2011.
Book publicists around the city may be referring to today as “Black Friday.”
In case you missed it, here’s Oprah’s interview with Stephenie Meyer on Friday:
In this section, Bolivar Middle School librarian & kids, via Skype, say that Twilight has “created a culture of literacy” among the students:
You may have noticed that the promo to the last segment of the interview promises an answer to the burning question, “Will There Be a Fifth Twilight Book?” Oprah never asks that question (an oversight so great that Entertainment Weekly had to investigate).
Fortunately, in the following “Behind the Scenes” interview, Meyer answers the question, but with an unsatisfying “maybe.” Another completely different book is “itching” in the back of her head. Stephenie’s mom is on her daily to go back to Midnight Sun, which tells the Twilight story from Edward’s point of view. She abandoned it after a draft was leaked on the Web.
Earlier, Meyer told Oprah that her mother is a strong influence (she told her to change the ending of Twilight and “she was right, as usual”), so fans can hope.
Two names you may not have expected to hear in the same sentence — Glenn Beck and Oprah Winfrey. Nonetheless, Motoko Rich’s headline in the NYT today says that “Glenn Beck Is Becoming New Oprah.”
But a Beck book is quite different from an Oprah book. Beck likes thrillers, especially ones that reflect his own political stances (Brad Thor, James Rollins, Vince Flynn). He’s also picked some authors who, as Beck delicately puts it, are “on the liberal side of things, which is, you know fine.”
Andrew Gross, for instance, tells Rich that the Beck attention gives with one hand and takes away with the other; conservatives who bought the book based on Beck’s recommendation are angry that they were duped into buying a “bunch of lefty” garbage. Meanwhile, his liberal fans are suspicious of his association with Beck.
It doesn’t have the production values of a Ken Burns series. In fact, it looks like a 12-week Harvard course, which is, in fact, what it’s based on.
Nevertheless, the PBS series, Justice: What’s the Right Thing To Do has turned the companion book into a bestseller. It hits the NYT hardcover nonfiction bestseller list at #16 (tied with #15) this week, one spot below the tie-in to the Ken Burns series, The National Parks.
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