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LIANE HANSEN
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
08-10-2003
Profile: Popularity of book clubs across America

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Long before Oprah Winfrey started her book club, readers around the country were regularly getting together to talk about novels, biographies and all sorts of other books, some groups for a very long time. One hundred twenty-five years ago today, a Methodist minister in the village of Chautauqua, New York, began what now claims to be America's oldest continuous book club, the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. From member ...

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