Oprah Winfrey announces new book club pick and launches The Oprah Podcast

In partnership with Starbucks, The Oprah Podcast started with Winfrey’s latest book club pick, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

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Oprah Winfrey has launched “The Oprah Podcast”, a new weekly show on YouTube. In the first episode she presented her new book club pick, Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These. Photo: AP

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Published: 10:45am, 4 Dec 2024

Oprah Winfrey has a new book club pick and a new platform to talk about books and other topics of the day.

This week, Winfrey launched “The Oprah Podcast”, a weekly series airing on her YouTube channel that will feature book club authors and guests ranging from “global newsmakers” to “cultural changemakers”. Coming podcasts will feature author-chef Ina Garten and Dr Vivek Murthy, the US surgeon general, among others.

Winfrey began “The Oprah Podcast” with Irish author Claire Keegan, whose prize-winning historical novel Small Things Like These is her latest book club selection. Small Things Like These, published in 2021, was adapted into a film starring Cillian Murphy that came out this year.

“To know that Oprah Winfrey took pleasure in reading my book is the most exquisite compliment, which will last my lifetime,” Keegan said. “To be told that she has also recommended it for others to read and has chosen this novel for her book club is a tremendous honour. May her wonderful book club encourage people into reading for years and years to come.”

Oprah Winfrey interviews Irish author Claire Keegan about her novel Small Things Like These in a Starbucks in the first episode of “The Oprah Podcast”. Photo: YouTube/@Oprah

Winfrey’s interview with Keegan and other book club choices will be presented in partnership with Starbucks. Conversations will be filmed in various Starbucks cafes, starting with one in the Empire State Building, and the books will be paired with a Starbucks drink.