Oprah gives Faulkner a boost

Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey propelled Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner up the bestseller list Saturday.

Within 24 hours of being chosen as the summer reading pick for Oprah’s Book Club, a boxed set of the three novels “As I Lay Dying,” “The Sound and the Fury” and “Light in August” was the No. 2 seller on Amazon.com, second only to J.K. Rowling’s next Harry Potter book, which hits the shelves in July.