FollowThere’s been speculation going on all week that Oprah Winfrey would choose Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Freedom, as the inaugural selection for the final season of her talk show/book club. Well, it’s official: Freedom it is, as you can see from this email that just landed in my inbox:mensclub24
I’m not surprised at all by Winfrey’s decision. As you can see below, on Monday I Tweeted about this possibility, days before speculation about the selection broke out in earnest.Movie A Dog’s Purpose (2017)
How did I know this would happen? Because I know The Oprah Winfrey Show, and even more so I know Oprah’s Book Club. Both are about redemption, forgiveness, magnanimity, and healing (see Chapter 4 of The Late Age of Print). What better way to bring closure to one of the most notorious episodes in the history of the Book Club than by giving the author who’d snubbed Winfrey the opportunity, finally, to set things right during this, her final season on the air?
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