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 website.
Saturday, November 22
8 a.m. For an event hosted by the Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, Vt., Greg Melville, author of Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-oil-powered Car, and a Cross Country Search for a Greener Future (Algonquin, $15.95, 9781565125957/1565125959), recounts his 3,900-mile trip across the U.S. in a 1985 Mercedes station wagon retrofitted to run on vegetable oil. (Re-airs Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2:30 a.m. and Monday at 6 a.m.)
9 a.m. Marie Arana, editor of the Washington Post BookWorld, and Robert Weil, executive editor at Norton, discuss the current state of the publishing industry and the future of books. (Re-airs Sunday at 4:15 p.m.)
6 p.m. Encore Booknotes. For a segment that first aired in 1992, Robert Bartley, author of The Seven Fat Years and How to Do it Again, claimed that the years of recession in the early 1990s were not a result of the greed of the '80s but of economists of the '90s abandoning the practices of the '80s.
7 p.m. Cherie Blair, wife of former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, discusses her memoir, Speaking for Myself: My Life from Liverpool to Downing Street (Little, Brown, $30, 9780316031455/0316031453). (Re-airs Sunday at 1:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., and Monday at 7 a.m.)
10 p.m. After Words. Adrian Wooldridge, Washington bureau chief for the Economist, interviews Niall Ferguson, author of The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Penguin, $29.95, 9781594201929/1594201927). Ferguson contends that financial systems are responsible for human progress. (Re-airs Sunday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m., and Sunday, November 30, at 12 p.m.)
11 p.m. Gustavo Arellano, author of Orange County: A Personal History (Scribner, $24, 9781416540045/1416540040, argues that popular culture's image of the region is far different from reality. (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m. and Monday at 4 a.m.)
Sunday, November 23
10 p.m. Book TV coverage of the 2008 National Book Awards Ceremony, held Thursday, November 19, in New York City.