December’s Chicago Magazine will carry a story called Bagging the Media Queen, looking at Kitty Kelley’s research and forthcoming book on Oprah Winfrey. The Sun-Times says the article “makes it pretty clear Kelley’s long-anticipated book about the TV queen will not be a puff piece. Kelley told all of the people she’s interviewed that her Oprah project will not be a hatchet job…. Yet the Chicago mag story points out that even after spending a hour or two listening to glowing tales about Oprah, Kelley eventually gets around to questions about sex, drugs and old boyfriends.”Sun-Times
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Oprah Book Club #62
Penguin’s had a long ride with Eckhart Tolle; now Oprah is finally ready to select another title for her Book Club, to be announced on September 19. The lucky publisher is HarperCollins, and for now, contrary to recent custom, both Amazon and BN.com are showing the new selection as a $25.95 hardcover. One other potentially meaningless clue: the collaborative filtering on Amazon tells me that customers who bought items like this also bought….almost all thrillers (Kathy Reichs; Jeffery Deaver; Tess Gerritsen; Nelson Demille; Robert Crais; James Patterson, etc…–plus an add assortment of Little Golden Books.)Amazon page