---
title: 'Back from the Undead'
date: '2003-02-27T16:14:18-05:00'
permalink: /back-from-the-undead/
tags:
    - networks
---

Well, almost.

Oprah’s back, that is; she announced today that the book club will soon be [back](http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2301008 "Reuters") from the dead. Interestingly, Oprah’s Book Club, Take Two will focus on the much-maligned Dead White Men of the world of “literary classics.” Says Oprah, she “cannot imagine a world where the great works of literature are not read.”

Is it a coincidence that a mere 24 hours earlier, another cultural phenomenon announced the imminent [death](http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2302077 "Reuters") of its undead realm?