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Thanks, O-Dawg: Janet Fitch at the BPL tomorrow night

Yeah, yeah, we know that White Oleander was totally an Oprah’s Book Club read. Can we help loving it? No, we cannot. Not even Oprah can tarnish Janet Fitch's descriptive magic, although this interview with Ms. Winfrey makes us want to hurl. But doesn't Fitch look sort of regal sitting in that high-backed medieval chair?

Anyway, its taken Fitch seven years to give us a follow-up (she scrapped her original second novel, a work of historical fiction, right before publication), but it seems Paint It Black was worth the wait. The novel follows Josie Tyrell — art model, teen runaway, and LA punk-rock groupie — as she falls in love with the wrong boy and gripes with the aftermath. Hear why Ms. Remember Your Spirit Thang got this one right when Fitch reads tomorrow evening at the Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall, Copley Square, Boston | 6 pm | free | 617.536.5400.

 

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  • Amy said:

    this sounds fantabulous. i was just thinking of re-reading some of white oleander b/c i miss it so, but i think i'll just go for this instead. i'm assuming all these peeps are hitting the scene in la, too, but it's just so hard to navigate vs. copley to bpl. and thank you for acknowledging the foolish smugness of oprah. she and her james-frey-abusing, self-righteous-preaching, diamond-pinky-ring-wearing self are dead to me. mnkah.
    September 27, 2006 8:31 PM
  • Sharon said:

    Totes. After the Frey debacle, she's dunzo as far as I'm concerned. I used to be the one hiding in the back of barnes & noble, trying to peel the sticker screaming OPHAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK off the book I wanted to buy and hoping none of the store employees tried to arrest me. Only now, I can't do that anymore. Becasue some self-obsessed psycho, undoubtedly O-dawg herself (she's got friends in high places, and that includes printing presses), decided that stickers weren't good enough. AND THEY'RE PRINTED ON THE COVER IN COLD, HARD INK. GOD.
    September 27, 2006 11:45 PM

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