He started the first running club in America and wrote a book about jogging for fitness.

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It's huge. There is no more powerful marketing force in contemporary fiction than Oprah's Book Club.

这很可观，就现代小说而言,没有能与奥普拉的书友会相提并论的营销力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

She's thinking about putting it on her book club, and--if any of you know anything getting on Oprah's Book Club makes your sales for the next 20 years.

她在考虑把你的书放到她的书友会里，如果你们中有人知道一些关于现代文学的事情的话,进入奥普拉书友会的书在,以后的二十年都会有好销路的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Book of the Month Club was a mail-order book club that started in 1926 and it became an incredibly powerful engine for selling books, just as Oprah's Book Club is today.

月读书友会是一个创立于1926年的邮购书友会6,是图书销售的强大引擎，正如今天的奥普拉书友会一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So this is what he asked them to do: Select four answers to the question 'What should a reader be to be a good reader?' "The reader should belong to a book club."

这就是他要求学生们做的：,从以下四个选项中选取问题,“读者如何才能成为好读者”的答案：,“读者应该是书友会的成员“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It even does wonders for Tolstoy when Tolstoy gets on So you get on Oprah's Book Club. Oprah asks for the proofs for your novel She takes them. She says, "This is great, but you know what?

当托尔斯泰的书进了书友会,所以你进入了书友会，奥普拉要预读你的小说,她拿到书，说，“很不错，但知道吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And in later letters in this series between her and Richard, and also in the review that she wrote up for the Book of the Month Club newsletter), she invokes the Nazis specifically as a comparison to the kind of oppression that Richard was trying to escape in the South.

她在之后与理查的通信中，把理查在南方,与德国纳粹做比较，当时社会的主流思想,就是在为了美国式的理想,为了自由而战。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选