While Oprah’s Book Club boosted sales of its chosen books and got readers to try books they otherwise might not have known about, the club didn’t entice non-readers to become readers, or so says a critique of the Oprah effect on TheAtlantic.com by critic Sarah Fay. This new scrutiny of Oprah’s club comes just weeks [...]
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