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☆ Winfrey Picks Nathan Hill's Novel 'Wellness' for Book Club
  + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Associated Press | Sept. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +2 min
A new box suddenly appears and there is Winfrey, holding Hill's novel in front of her. “I have an idea, why not choose it for Oprah's book club?” she says. Book!” Winfrey tells him, adding that the novel made her nostalgic for Chicago, where she used to film her talk show. OprahDaily.com, the online hub of Winfrey's book club, will include additional detail about Hill and his work. Her book club has been such a gift to readers, and includes some of my own literary idols.
Persons: Oprah Winfrey, Winfrey, Nathan Hill, Alfred A ., Hill, “, Abraham Verghese's “, Nix ”, she’d, ” Hill Organizations: Alfred A . Knopf, The Associated Press, Knopf, “ Wellness, 102nd, ”, Los Angeles Times Locations: Chicago
☆ Newton N. Minow, F.C.C. Chief Who Deemed TV a ‘Vast Wasteland,’ Dies at 97
  + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Newton N. Minow, who as President John F. Kennedy’s new F.C.C. chairman in 1961 sent shock waves through an industry and touched a nerve in a nation addicted to banality and mayhem by calling American television “a vast wasteland,” died on Saturday at his home in Chicago . His daughter Nell Minow said the cause was a heart attack. “Stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you, and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off,” Mr. Minow said. And endlessly, commercials — many screaming, cajoling and offending.
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