This year's Library of Congress National Book Festival at the Washington Convention Center on September 5 will have additional media attention. The Washington Post reported that in addition to C-SPAN's Book TV, a live-stream broadcast by PBS's Book View Now will be available. Produced by Detroit Public Television and hosted by Jeffrey Brown, senior correspondent and chief arts correspondent of PBS NewsHour, and Rich Fahle of the Detroit station's Book View Now, the coverage will follow events from noon until 6 p.m. Viewers can watch live at PBS.org, at many PBS station websites and at WorldChannel.org.
The expanded coverage "is the brainchild of executive producer Fahle, who was a manager at Kramerbooks in Washington during the late 1980s and early '90s and later worked at C-SPAN, where he helped launch BookTV," the Post wrote. Now living in the Ann Arbor area, he has teamed up with Detroit Public TV to cover the Miami Book Fair, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, BookExpo America and BookCon.
