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 Winfrey, one of the most influential women in U.S. television,
chose “The Water Dancer” by critically acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi
Coates, his debut novel about slavery.
"It is one of the best books I have ever read in my entire
life," Winfrey said on CBS "This Morning." The inaugural
"Oprah's Book Club" will premiere on Apple TV+ <AAPL.O> on Nov.
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Winfrey said the new book club venture would feature interviews
with authors from Apple stores in world cities.
"It's the reason why I wanted to partner with Apple because you
can build an entire community around the world, and you can have
everyone in the world reading the same book," Winfrey told Ellen
DeGeneres in a separate interview on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show"
on Monday.
Winfrey is one of several big names, including Steven Spielberg
and Jennifer Aniston, who have partnered with Apple for its
venture into streaming original content.
Winfrey, however, ruled out any return to the kind of daily show
that she ended in 2011 after 25 years.
"I'm kinda done with the talk show," she told DeGeneres.
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"I can do whatever I want; that what's wonderful with Apple. I'm
going to be doing documentaries. I'll do interviews when something
comes along that feels like 'OG! I want to sit down and talk with
that person.' But I'm kinda done with the every day," she said.
Apple said a new episode of "Oprah's Book Club" will be available
every two months.
Coates, who won the 2015 National Book Award for his non-fiction
work "Between the World and Me" about race in the United States,
said on Monday that being picked was a "tremendous, tremendous
honor."
(Reporting by Barbara Goldberg in New York and Jill Serjeant in Los
Angeles; Editing by David Gregorio and Dan Grebler)
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