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Oprah Winfrey is on top again. When was she not on top you might ask? Well in the past few weeks Oprah has been denying that a book that she added to her book club was full of lies. James Frey’s book “A Million Little Pieces” caused all kinds of trouble for Oprah and for Frey. You can read about the story here.
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Last week, Oprah Winfrey designated Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitzer Prize-winning 2002 novel, Middlesex, as her summer book club pick. This week it's No. 7 on USA TODAY Best-Selling Books list. This week it's No. 7 on USA TODAY Best-Selling Books list. "It's a book about family and emigration and the American Dream," says Eugenides, who ... wrote 1993's The Virgin Suicides.
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The Oprah Winfrey Show has featured many celebrities over the years, but that´s only one side of it. There´s ... Oprah´s eternal quest to better herself, and to make the viewers change themselves. Oprah has started several organizations: Oprah´s angel network, Oprah´s book club, and O Magazine. For a couple of years now, the show frequently ends with a "Remember your spirit" segment.
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On February 9, 2006 it was announced that Winfrey signed a $55 million, three-year contract with XM Satellite Radio to establish a new radio channel. The channel will be called Oprah & Friends and will feature popular contributors to The Oprah Winfrey Show and O, The Oprah Magazine including Nate Berkus, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Bob Greene, Dr. Robin Smith and Marianne Williamson. Oprah & Friends airs 24/7 on XM Radio Channel 156. Winfrey's contract requires her to be on air 30 minutes a week, 39 weeks a year. The 30-minute weekly show will feature Winfrey with friend Gayle King. Winfrey's audience is extremely loyal and XM hopes that the "Oprah Effect" can have the same effect on XM subscription sales that she does on the New York Times Best Seller List, thanks to her book club.
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[One] one of Winfrey’s major goals through her TV show was to get America reading again – a surprising move coming from someone whose career was largely owed to the TV medium. She championed literacy and book sales by starting “Oprah's Book Club,†a popular once–a–month feature of her talk show that debuted in 1996. New books and classics became instant bestsellers, thanks to Winfrey’s influence. When she chose John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel East of Eden as the book of the month, it went up to the top of the book charts. Winfrey’s program was not without its controversies... when her selection of James Frey’s supposed memoir A Million Little Pieces was exposed by The Smoking Gun as a work of pure fiction. In 2006, an angered and disappointed Winfrey brought Frey to her talk show to apologize to the American public for his “novel†lies and leveled him with her admonishments of betrayal.
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Ever since coming to Chicago, Winfrey had given 10 percent of her income to charities, mostly having to do with youths, education, and books. In 1996 she began Oprah's Book Club to promote reading, for which she recommended a recently published book each month. One show each month would focus discussion on the book. Such was her influence that within minutes of her recommendations, booksellers would be swamped with orders for the books; sales for the books typically increased by 500,000 to one million copies, and previously obscure authors would become major literary figures. In 2000 Winfrey began O: The Oprah Magazine, which topped two million in circulation. In 2001 the magazine grossed over $140 million.
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