Oprah is a long-running daytime televisiontalk show, hosted, produced and owned by Oprah Winfrey. It runs the gamut from gossip to entertainment to health, frequently turning to personal revelations on the part of the host. One feature of the show, "Oprah's Book Club" made bestsellers of a number of novels and other works, including books by such writers as Isabel Allende, Joyce Carol Oates[?], and Toni Morrison.
... with the early sound heavily influenced by Kesey's LSD-soaked Trips Festivals[?]. This early period is covered in Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." ...