A midtown Manhattan pop-in: Oprah Winfrey delivers Tayari Jones' 'Kin' news face-to-face

For decades, Winfrey has broken the news to her chosen authors by cold-calling them or popping up on video during Zoom meetings. For Jones and her novel “Kin,” she decided to communicate more directly, showing up at the Penguin Random House offices in midtown Manhattan while Jones was speaking with her publisher.

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