oprah weighs in

Bookslut has a link to an article in The Orlando Sentinel, in which Oprah discusses the upcoming TV movie Their Eyes Were Watching God (discussed earlier here).

"Occasionally, I'm still surprised how many people are not aware of her or haven't read [Hurston's] books," Valerie Boyd [a Hurston biographer] says. "This TV adaptation will change all that. It catapults her into pop culture, into the mainstream. What's more mainstream than ABC and Oprah Winfrey and Halle Berry?"