December 2019 • Macworld 67interview the writer of one of the books she features
in her club, giving fans plenty of time to read the
story and think it over. In other words, spoiler-
haters, beware – it’s assumed that anyone who
watches this show has read the book.
For the pilot, Oprah chats with journalist Ta-
Nehisi Coates, whose new novel The Water Dancer
centres on a slave who’s gifted with a photographic
memory but can’t recall a thing about his mother.
Oprah spends the hour candidly chatting with
Coates about her delight and frustrations – she
says she had to read the first paragraph three times
- and then takes questions from online fans and
readers in the audience. Just steel yourself for a
thick slathering of Apple praise. Oprah’s first show