Posts Tagged ‘Oprah’s Book Club’
The Long and Ashy Road
Posted by: annieem on: November 29, 2009
Despite my ongoing interest in Oprah and her book club (you read it here first: she’ll return to it with a vengeance once she has her own cable network), I did not read her 2007 book selection, the Pulizer prize winning Cormac McCarthy novel The Road, until this weekend. During Thanksgiving dinner at a friend’s [...]
Multiple Blogiality Disorder
Posted by: annieem on: June 5, 2009
Last December I gave a lecture on Oprah’s Book Club, and based on my emphatically positive spin on the Oprah Effect, I was recruited by an eager colleague to assist in starting a faculty and staff blog: a public space for our rapidly growing institution to remind each other who we are and what we [...]
Why Does Literature Matter?
Posted by: annieem on: December 16, 2008
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My Oprah’s Book Club talk last week (discussed here) led to a 3-page conclusion on why her 12-year old book club encourages readers to address the question, why does literature matter? I quoted Morris Dickstein’s recent essay (also posted here). I always bring this question up in my literature classes (from introductory to senior seminars) and it [...]
Fall Term Reflections
Posted by: annieem on: December 14, 2008
Well, writing instructors often make their students write self reflections at the end of the term (Such as, How many hours did you spend on this class each week? Which of the course outcomes do you think you’ve best met and why?; and, the one they all, rightfully, groan at, If you were to revise [...]
Preaching the Gospel of Reading
Posted by: annieem on: December 8, 2008
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I just finished doing a run through of my presentation on Oprah’s Book Club that I’ve titled “Preaching the Gospel of Reading” (not exactly an original title considering all the essays on OBC that use variations on that title), practicing for the Wednesday morning presentation. I finally found a clear, and [...]
