Book TV airs on C-Span 2 from 8 a.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Monday and
focuses on political and historical books as well as the book industry.
The following are highlights for this coming weekend. For more
information, go to Book TV's Web site.
Saturday, November 19
11:15 a.m. Miami Book Fair International live coverage. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.)
7 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a segment first aired in 2002, Zig Ziglar, president of Zig Ziglar Corporations and author of Zig: The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar, among other titles, sketches the zigs and zags of his career path from a struggling direct salesman to head of his own companies and international motivational speaker.
8 p.m. After Words. Andrew Carroll, director of the Legacy Project and author of Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters--and One Man's Search to Find Them (Scribner, $30, 0743256166), interviews former Marine Corps Captain Nathaniel Fick, a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq whose new memoir is One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer (Houghton Mifflin, $25, 0618556133). (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
9 p.m. The National Book Awards ceremony from Wednesday evening. (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
Sunday, November 20
11 a.m. More Miami Book Fair International live coverage.
Saturday, November 19
11:15 a.m. Miami Book Fair International live coverage. (Re-airs Sunday at 12 a.m.)
7 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a segment first aired in 2002, Zig Ziglar, president of Zig Ziglar Corporations and author of Zig: The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar, among other titles, sketches the zigs and zags of his career path from a struggling direct salesman to head of his own companies and international motivational speaker.
8 p.m. After Words. Andrew Carroll, director of the Legacy Project and author of Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters--and One Man's Search to Find Them (Scribner, $30, 0743256166), interviews former Marine Corps Captain Nathaniel Fick, a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq whose new memoir is One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer (Houghton Mifflin, $25, 0618556133). (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.)
9 p.m. The National Book Awards ceremony from Wednesday evening. (Re-airs Monday at 12 a.m.)
Sunday, November 20
11 a.m. More Miami Book Fair International live coverage.