It’s OK if you missed this in the flood of Apple TV+ original series announcements: Oprah’s Book Club is being reborn on the platform, no doubt bringing with it a new list of culture things you need to catch up on because everybody else is talking about them.
The benevolent multimedia mogul’s lit picks are famously powerful, but the Club itself has been a bit intermittent, with only 10 books selected overall since its 2012 relaunch on her own channel, OWN. The last was Michelle Obama’s blockbuster memoir Becoming in November 2018.
Her latest fave likely wouldn’t have needed her stamp of approval to be a big damn deal, but it sure can’t hurt. Read more…
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