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Thanks to interviews in the past 40 years, with Don DeLillo, Philip Roth Winfrey, that total should increase by hundreds of thouNEW YORK (AP) Before but she has taken on a novel with and Thomas Pynchon. "That shows good taste on her sands. Wednesday, few could have little of the uplifting spirit she A paperback was not planned part," Bloom said of Winfrey's imagined the names "Oprah often favors. until September, but Vintage Winfrey" and "Cormac "The Road," published last choice. Winfrey has taken on harsher Books, understandably, is pubMcCarthy" appearing in the September by Knopf, is a sparely same sentence. written story of a father and son stories before, such as Elie lishing one now, with a massive Holocaust classic, first printing of 950,000 copies. McCarthy, one of the coun- trying to survive as they wander WiesePs "It's going to be a big year for try's most revered and press-shy through a burned and bare, post- "Night," and, notoriously, James authors - a man only slightly nuclear landscape. Praised Frey's "A Million Little Pieces," Cormac," said Mehta, noting the more accessible than J.D. almost universally by reviewers, a memoir of addiction and recov- planned release later this year of Salinger - will give his first ever it was a finalist for the National ery that turned out to be largely the Coen brothers film, "No Country for Old Men," based on television interview, lured by the Book Critics Circle prize and is fabricated. In the coming weeks, the the McCarthy novel of the same long arm of Winfrey, publishing's considered a leading contender reclusive McCarthy, who did not name. biggest hit-maker and a media for the Pulitzer Prize. Winfrey's choice also marks superstar. "It's unlike anything I've ever appear on Wednesday's show and Winfrey announced chosen as a book club selection who lives in Santa Fe, N.M., will the first time in five years that Wednesday op her Chicago- before because it's post-apoca- conduct his "first television inter- she has picked a work of contemporary fiction. based TV show that McCarthy's lyptic. (It is) very unusual for me view ever," Winfrey said. "It's a bit of a surprise, but a In 2002, she suspended the "The Road" was her new book to select this book, but it's fasciclub pick. nating," Winfrey said on her wonderful surprise," McCarthy's club for a year and revived it with editor. Knopf president Sonny an emphasis on "classics," such "Mr. McCarthy respects her show. work, admires what she has McCarthy. 73, is known" for Mehta, told the AP. "This is good as John Steinbeck's "East of accomplished, has an awareness novels such as "All the Pretty news for those of us who have Eden" and Faulkner's "As I Lay before of her book club, and thought it Horses" and "Blood Meridian," been in the Cormac McCarthy Dying." Her pick McCarthy was Sidney Poitier's would be interesting to partici- and has been widely cited as an business for a very long time." "The Road" is one of memoir, "The Measure of a pate in the conversation with heir to William Faulkner for his Oprah," McCarthy's publicist, biblical prose and rural settings, McCarthy's most popular books, Man." Paul Bogaards of Alfred A. yearning back to a time when telKnopf, told The Associated evision itself, much less TV talk 'Lookout' finds real characters at its heart work, and that's nothing but high compliment. The film is also blessed with three solid star turns. Joseph Gordon-Levitt continues his string of ever-better indie movie roles here ("Mysterious Skin" to "Brick" and on), showing once By TOM LONG and for all he is one of the most MedidNews Group Wire Service promising actors of his generation. Crackling with good ideas, per- Yes, he was the kid on TV's "Third formances and energy, "The Rock from the Sun"; don't forget Lookout" is the best crime film of Leonardo DiCaprio was once a the year so far, a movie that man- kid on "Growing Pains." This ages to be intriguing, sensitive and guy's the real deal. funny while still keeping its edge Playing the role of unlikely paper-cut sharp. mentor is Jeff Daniels, contained The film is the directorial debut and winning as ever playing both of Scott Frank, the much-sought- cynical and sympathetic. And Isla after screenwriter who turned Fisher, who nearly stole "The Elmore Leonard novels into "Out Wedding Crashers," brings far of Sight" and "Get Shorty"; and more brass and heart to her role it's obvious that some of Leonard's than Frank had any reason to gritty underground eccentricity expect. took hold of Frank's spirit. Gordon-Levitt plays Chris "The Lookout" is filled with Pratt. 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