{"id":391781,"date":"2026-04-14T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/391781\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:12:07","slug":"oprah-winfrey-names-maria-semples-go-gentle-as-her-latest-book-club-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/391781\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Winfrey names Maria Semple\u2019s &#8216;Go Gentle&#8217; as her latest book club pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5I5CBWR3ENGPHA67QSL4K7ZKGE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">NEW YORK \u2014 Maria Semple\u2019s \u201cGo Gentle,\u201d a comic novel about a Stoic philosopher and single mother in Manhattan who finds herself caught up in events that challenge her capacity for acceptance, is <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/oprah-winfrey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s<\/a> new book club pick.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QKONT74YFRC6TO42CEA7OSMYSE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cFor all those who crave a good <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/books-and-literature\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">page turner<\/a> , this is one wild ride of a story that carries equal parts wit and wisdom,\u201d Winfrey said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cI learned so much about Stoicism \u2014 I laughed out loud for real. And underneath the humor there was always something tender \u2026 a quiet truth about relationships, identity, and what it means to find peace with yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Maria Semple\u2019s \u201cGo Gentle,\u201d a comic novel about a Stoic philosopher and single mother in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5927,186504,146,6570,85,46],"class_list":["post-391781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-books-and-literature","tag-ent-books-winfrey","tag-entertainment","tag-fiction","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}