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Sep 11, 2026
Christina YoungHOST
He has this talent for placing a modern microscope over middle-class anxiety, family dynamics and ethical grey areas.
Christina YoungHOST
His latest novel, Culpability, was published in July 2025 and it vaulted straight into the cultural spotlight when Oprah Winfrey selected it as an official Oprah's Book Club pick, almost immediately upon release, and it's easy to see why.
Christina YoungHOST
The story itself centres on the Cassidy Shaw family.
Christina YoungHOST
Noah is a lawyer and his wife, Lorelei, is a top-tier AI researcher specialising in computational morality, which is literally writing the mathematical algorithms that attempt to dictate ethical decision-making for machines.
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She lives and writes in Nova Scotia, where she is an associate professor in English and theater at Acadia University.
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Sherry is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, including Bitterroot Landing and The Rapture of Canaan, which was an Oprah Book Club selection.
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Her most recent novel, The Tender Grave, won first place in regional fiction at the Independent Publishers Book Awards.
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Sherry teaches at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Tina SpanglerHOST
But anyways, I just find when I have a subject that I want to do, I look in here and see if they've got anything that ties in with it, and then I've been using that too, just for fun, just to change it up a little bit.
Tina SpanglerHOST
So anyhow, you know, I've been doing book, I like an Oprah Books book club, so I try to recommend books that I like, like Bible study and I've used other books too so anyways let's see here embrace failing and acknowledge small wins so number one let's see if you are perfect and correct at one speed awesome but then maybe the next speed that's not happening you know maybe you're perfect at a walk and trot but everything falls apart at a lope or you're perfect at a lope but it falls apart at a run and Or at a high low or a run low, you know.
Tina SpanglerHOST
So that is called embracing failing.
Tina SpanglerHOST
That's education with speed.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
So we think of this as not a progression, right? This is a holistic experience that's happening all the time.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
This book, for us, Rebecca, is a kind of totem of a moment in literary history, early internet, Oprah's Book Club, and the figure of the great white male novelist as something that the culture maybe wants to go out and ha- Ahab, right? Go out and skewer-
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
Yes
Jeff O'NeillHOST
... and watch it bleed in the ocean.
Larry LepardGUEST
And so sure enough, he canceled the safari, turned around, got on a plane, flew to Chicago.
Larry LepardGUEST
And he did the Oprah Book Club, which in the day was the book club to do, right? And Oprah Winfrey was the...
Larry LepardGUEST
radio personality who did it.
Larry LepardGUEST
And he went and did that and the show ended and she looked at him and she said, I bet I just sold you a couple million books.
Nadine MathesonHOST
Because it's a secret.
Nadine MathesonHOST
yeah I know but you know this is the well this is the thing isn't it we're watching it from this side when I'm scrolling through I'm saying I'm scrolling through Instagram and scrolling through somewhere and it's Tiare Jones's new book in as an Oprah book club plug and you're thinking oh cool but you're not thinking about the machinery beside it yeah and the logistics of it I'm just thinking Tiare Jones got picked by Oprah twice like exactly I'm like I've got my book I'm just going to indulge in it and you're thinking well done you but you're not but you know listening to you and talking to you you're not thinking about the logistics behind it and what it entails because it's not just it's just a new book being released there's more there's in a sense there's more to it now
Tayari JonesGUEST
and well also There is the thing about having a huge secret that you have not told the people in your life, the people whom you tell everything.
Tayari JonesGUEST
Then on your
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Yes, this one is terrifying.
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In August 2025, they optioned Bruce Holsinger's novel Culpability, which was originally an Oprah's Book Club pick.
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Culpability represents the perfect marriage of an emotional family drama and a deeply provocative near-future tech thriller.
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What's the setup?
Sullivan SommerHOST
Here we go.
Sullivan SommerHOST
A Kirkus Best Book of the 21st Century, an instant New York Times, an instant New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today bestseller, an Oprah's Book Club selection, one of Atlantic's Great American Novels, one of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Oprah Daily, People, The Boston Globe, Book Page, Booklist, Kirkus, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Chicago Public Library, a finalist for PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, a nominee for the NAACP Image Award.
Sullivan SommerHOST
And this August, as we are recording, celebrating its fifth anniversary, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by scholar, poet, essayist, and yes, novelist, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
Sullivan SommerHOST
Honorée, welcome back to the podcast.
Sullivan SommerHOST
Here we go.
Sullivan SommerHOST
A Kirkus Best Book of the 21st Century, an instant New York Times, an instant New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today bestseller, an Oprah's Book Club selection, one of Atlantic's Great American Novels, one of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Oprah Daily, People, The Boston Globe, Book Page, Booklist, Kirkus, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Chicago Public Library, a finalist for PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, a nominee for the NAACP Image Award.
Sullivan SommerHOST
And this August, as we are recording, celebrating its fifth anniversary, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by scholar, poet, essayist, and yes, novelist, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
Sullivan SommerHOST
Honorée, welcome back to the podcast.
Sullivan SummerHOST
Here we go.
Sullivan SummerHOST
A Kirkus Best Book of the 21st Century, an instant New York Times, an instant New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today bestseller, an Oprah's Book Club selection, one of Atlantic's Great American novels, one of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Oprah Daily, People, The Boston Globe, Book Page, Booklist, Kirkus, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Chicago Public Library, a finalist for PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, long-listed for the National Book Award for Fiction, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, a nominee for the NAACP Image Award.
Sullivan SummerHOST
And this August, as we are recording, celebrating its fifth anniversary, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by scholar, poet, essayist, and yes, novelist, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
Sullivan SummerHOST
Honorée, welcome back to the podcast.
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