Growing up in the Midwest in the ’80s, I watched a lot of Oprah. In her early shows she was a Phil Donahue wannabe, taking phone calls over a loudspeaker and moving around her studio audience, holding a mic out to let them vent their opinions. Later she did more one-on-one interviews from a leatherContinue reading “Pick Me Oprah”
Tag Archives: Topical fiction
Ripped from the Headlines
Some books aim for originality while others take a topical premise and explore it in a variety of ways. I think of the latter as “ripped from the headlines” novels. If you watched classic Law & Order, you will remember their tendency to build plots from recent newsworthy events, often switching secondary elements to keepContinue reading “Ripped from the Headlines”
Descent from Donahue
Growing up in the ’80s I watched a fair number of daytime talk shows. The genre has almost completely disappeared, as rare these days as a soap opera, replaced by chat shows, cooking demos, and DIY home projects. The emphasis in the last twenty years has been on selling: actors hawk movies, lifestyle gurus sellContinue reading “Descent from Donahue”
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