Poets & Writers Theater

In this Oprah’s Book Club event, Douglas Stuart talks about his novel John of John (Grove Press, 2026), which he wrote over the course of six years after spending weeks researching the Outer Hebrides Isles on the coast of Scotland and interviewing their locals. For more from Stuart, read his installment of our Ten Questions series.

In this CBS Mornings segment with cohost Gayle King, Oprah Winfrey announces her latest book club pick, A Guardian and a Thief (Knopf, 2025), and speaks with author Megha Majumbar about the themes of her novel and how becoming a parent changed how she viewed her characters. Read Majumbar’s installment of our Ten Questions series.

In this CBS Mornings video, Oprah Winfrey announces her new book club pick The Covenant of Water (Grove Press, 2023) by Abraham Verghese, who speaks about his writing process, how his work as a physician feeds into his writing, and how his family’s history inspired his new novel. For more, read “The Great Lie That Tells the Truth: A Q&A With Abraham Verghese” by Naheed Phiroze Patel.

Colson Whitehead, whose new novel, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday, 2016), is featured in Page One of the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, speaks with Oprah Winfrey about the inspiration behind the book.