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"It's the perfect book for the summer, I guarantee it," said Winfrey, who read the book last summer In the past, Winfrey's selection has guaranteed hundreds of thousands in sales You will not be able to turn the pages fast enough 1 on the fiction best seller lists of The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times Winfrey started the book club in 1996, with Jacquelyn Mitchard's "The Deep End of the Ocean" as her first pick " Others television shows, including "Today" and "Good Morning America," have launched their own clubs since Winfrey discontinued hers, but none has had the impact of Winfrey's The TV talk show host is expected to make three to five classic selections a year Steinbeck called it "a sort of autobiography of the Salinas Valley" in California Oprah Makes 'East of Eden' Her Club Pick Jun 18, 11:24 AM EST Oprah Winfrey resurrected her book club Wednesday by recommending her viewers read John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" â€â€? a move that could put the novel on best seller lists more than 50 years after its publication "It's a saga But she decided to relaunch it with a focus on the classics Winfrey made 46 picks before her final selection in April 2002: Toni Morrison's "Sula " Steinbeck is more famous for "The Grapes of Wrath," but Winfrey said she thinks this novel, published in 1952, might be even better The revived book club is good news for the publishing industry Winfrey discontinued her book club last year, saying she did not have enough time to keep up with monthly selections Steinbeck died in 1968 "East of Eden" tells the story of three generations of two families, from the Civil War to World War I The book was released with a printing of 100,000, but within a week of Winfrey's announcement 640,000 copies were in print and the book moved up to No She said "East of Eden" might be the best novel she had ever read When the book was published, it was a best seller Studs Terkel, 91, the oral historian and self-described champion of the "uncelebrated," received a lifetime achievement prize org/ Instead, he sent a letter to Simonoff, who duly left a complimentary message on Jones' answering machine bookcritics "I feel redeemed tonight, and I haven't seen Mel Gibson's film yet," joked Terkel, referring to "The Passion of the Christ He also had a computer incompatible with other online systems Finalists in nonfiction categories included William T The NBCC awards are prestigious, if not profitable, offering no cash prizes Rebecca Solnit's "River of Shadows," a study of high-speed photography and other 19th-century technology, won in the criticism category, and Susan Stewart's "Columbarium" was cited for poetry Jones, 53, won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 1993 and was a finalist for the National Book Award for his first book, "Lost in the City," a collection of short stories about life in 1950s-1970s Washington, where Jones grew up The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a not-for-profit organization of about 750 book editors and critics " "The Known World," the story of a black slave owner and the plantation's collapse after his death, was a finalist last fall for the National Book Awards and is now in its eighth printing, with 100,000 copies in print " Sontag's book is a partial refutation of her influential "On Photography," which won an NBCC award in 1978 and contended that repeated exposure to images of violence and suffering numb our emotions Jones, who ended a 10-year absence from publishing with his acclaimed novel "The Known World," won the fiction prize Thursday night from the National Book Critics Circle 'The Known World' Wins Fiction Prize Mar 4, 9:20 PM EST Edward P In accepting the award Thursday, Jones said he felt so embarrassed about the delay that when he finally finished he couldn't bear to tell his agent, Eric Simonoff, on the phone "I still have that message," Jones said But the author, a former proofreader for Tax Notes, a trade magazine, took years to get going on "The Known World " He acknowledges being a slow worker who doesn't like writing anything until he has the story constructed in his mind Vollman's seven-volume, 3,300-page "Rising Up and Rising Down" and Susan Sontag's "Regarding the Pain of Others And sometimes, frankly, he didn't feel like writing Monica Ali's "Brick Lane," Caryl Phillips' "A Distant Shore," Richard Powers' "The Time of Our Singing" and Tobias Wolff's "Old School" were the other fiction nominees â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? On the Net: NBCC: http://www "There were days I decided I wasn't in the mood, so I just put it off," he told The Associated Press last fall Other awards Thursday went to Paul Hendrickson's "Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy" for general nonfiction and William Taubman's "Khrushchev: The Man and His Era," for biography-autobiogra phy |
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