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Pulitzer Poet thinks out loud about the new face of literature, the Ipad, and //Slaughterhouse Five://[| Rita Dove]
 * THINKING ABOUT A NEW AGE FOR THE BOOK:**

Would you want Oprah to put her big "O" sticker on your book? What if it covered up your name on the front cover? If you took on Oprah, could she obliterate you or catapult you into superstardom? What does it mean for a media conglomerate like The Oprah Winfrey Show to brand a piece of writing?
 * OPRAH VS. AUTHOR**

Oprah picks Jonathan Franzen's new novel __Freedom__ as her new book club pick to kickoff her last season. Oprah and Franzen have a contentious past. Check out this multimedia NPR piece that offers links to radio interviews (Fresh Air is taped in Philly!), Franzen's Time magazine cover, and a whole history of media mogul versus the "great American author": [|Franzen vs Oprah]