Oprah's choice
Cormac McCarthy
Oprah Winfrey announced today that novelist Cormac McCarthy is her choice for her next Oprah's Book Club selection, for his novel "The Road." He'll appear on the daytime TV doyenne's show on an unannounced future date.
This will be an interesting show, because McCarthy is extremely publicity-shy. In fact, the Winfrey announcement said it's his first-ever TV interview. There are all sorts of anecdotes about McCarthy's quirks. One I remember -- perhaps apocryphal -- is that he carries a supply of 100-watt lightbulbs with him when he travels, and when he checks into a hotel, he changes the bulbs in the lamps in his room so that he can see to read.
Presumably, the lights on the Oprah stage-set will be bright enough for reading. The question is whether they will be so bright that they ruin his privacy.
