A Wizard of Their Age
(January 2015)
Critical Essays from the Harry Potter Generation Cecilia Konchar Farr - Editor
A collection of student essays that captures the passionate engagement their generation brings to the Harry Potter phenomenon.
A Wizard of Their Age began when the students in Cecilia Konchar Farr’s “Six Degrees of Harry Potter” course at St. Catherine University kept finding errors in the available scholarship. These students had been reading Harry Potter for their entire literate lives, a...(Read More)
The Oprah Affect
(October 2008)
Critical Essays on Oprah's Book Club Cecilia Konchar Farr - Editor Jaime Harker - Editor
Essays explore the broad cultural impact of Oprah’s Book Club.
The Oprah Affect explores the cultural impact of Oprah’s Book Club, particularly in light of debates about the definition and purpose of literature in American culture. For the critics collected here, Oprah’s Book Club stands, in the context of American literary history, not as an egregious undermining of who we are and what...(Read More)
Reading Oprah
(November 2004)
How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads Cecilia Konchar Farr - Author
An analysis of how Oprah's Book Club has changed America's reading habits.
Oprah's Book Club sparked a revolution among readers by bringing serious contemporary novels to the attention of a wider audience.The Oprah's Book Club seal on a book led to instant fame and bestseller status for authors—but, how did Oprah change the way America reads and values books? Reading Oprah s...(Read More)
