Book TV airs on C-Span 2 this weekend 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, January 21
3:15 p.m. William Cross, author of Winslow Homer: American Passage (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $50, 9780374603793). (Re-airs Sunday at 3:15 a.m.)
6 p.m. Stephanie Schorow, author of The Great Boston Fire: The Inferno That Nearly Incinerated the City (Globe Pequot, $24.95, 9781493054985). (Re-airs Sunday at 6 a.m.)
7:05 p.m. Steve Wiegand, author of 1876: Year of the Gun (Bancroft Press, $33, 9781610885805). (Re-airs Sunday at 7:05 a.m.)
Sunday, January 22
10 a.m. Philip Bump, author of The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America (Viking, $30, 9780593489697). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 p.m. Boyah Farah, author of America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir (Harper, $26.99, 9780063073357). (Re-airs Monday at 2 a.m.)
3:45 p.m. Dipo Faloyin, author of Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent (Norton, $30, 9780393881530). (Re-airs Monday at 3:45 a.m.)
4:25 p.m. Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives (Harper, $27.99, 9780063135390). (Re-airs Monday at 4:25 a.m.)
