Introduction / Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr -- Oprah in the public library / Juliette Wells and Virginia Wells -- Talking readers / Cecilia Konchar Farr -- Reading religiously : the ritual practices of Oprah's Book Club / Kathryn Lofton -- The romance of reading like Oprah / Yung-Hsing Wu -- Oprah's book selections : teleliterature for The Oprah Winfrey Show / Mark Hall -- Resisting Paradise : Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, and the middlebrow audience / Michael Perry -- Oprah's Book Club and the politics of cross-racial empathy / Kimberly Chabot Davis -- Beware the furrow of the middlebrow : searching for Paradise on The Oprah Winfrey show / Timothy Aubry -- "Did Isabel Allende write this book for me?" : Oprah's Book Club reads Daughter of fortune / Ana Patricia Rodríguez -- The trouble with happy endings : conflicting narratives in Oprah's Book Club / Kelley Penfield Lewis -- Your book changed my life : everyday literary criticism and Oprah's Book Club / Kate Douglas -- Correcting Oprah : Jonathan Franzen and the uses of literature in the therapeutic age / Kevin Quirk -- The way we read now : Oprah Winfrey, intellectuals, and democracy / Simon Stow -- Everything old is new again : Oprah's Book Club returns with the classics / Kathleen Rooney -- Afterward : Oprah, James Frey, and the problem of the literary / Jaime Harker.
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