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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo i s the latest author to be welcomed into the inner circle of Oprah Winfrey<\/a> book club picks. <\/p>\n Winfrey announced Tuesday that she had selected Russo’s \u201cBridge of Sighs,\u201d a 2007 novel centered in a rural New York<\/a> community. Russo has set much of his work in small, Northeastern towns, including \u201cNobody’s Fool,\u201d later adapted into a movie of the same name that starred Paul Newman; and \u201cEmpire Falls,\u201d winner of the Pulitzer in 2002 and the basis for an Emmy-winning HBO series that featured Newman and his wife, Joanne Woodward. <\/p>\n Winfrey often chooses new books for her club, but has at times looked to older releases, from Toni Morrison’s \u201cThe Bluest Eye\u201d to John Steinbeck’s \u201cEast of Eden.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt is, of course, a profound honor to be chosen for Oprah\u2019s Book Club,\u201d Russo said in a statement. \u201cBut to be chosen for a novel written two decades earlier? A book that will introduce a whole new generation of readers to my work? How special is that?\u201d<\/p>\n