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, November 16
9:10 a.m. Natalie Lampert, author of The Big Freeze: A Reporter's Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility (Ballantine, $30, 9781524799380). (Re-airs Saturday at 9:10 p.m.)
10 a.m. Elliot Cosgrove, author of For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today (Harvest, $29, 9780063417472). (Re-airs Saturday at 10 p.m.)
11:15 a.m. to 6 p.m. Live coverage of the 2024 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Tex. Highlights include:
- 11:15 a.m. Ernesto Londoño, author of Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics, and Eugenia Bone, author of Have a Good Trip: Exploring the Magic Mushroom Experience.
- 12:15 p.m. Paola Ramos, author of Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America, and Isaac Arnsdorf, author of Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement's Ground War to End Democracy.
- 1:15 p.m. Mónica Jiménez, author of Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico, and Ray Suarez, author of We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century.
- 2:15 p.m. Elyse Graham, author of Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II, and Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA.
- 3:15 p.m. Glenn Fine, author of Watchdogs: Inspectors General and the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government.
- 4:15 p.m. Sarah Smarsh, author of Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class, and Alice Driver, author of Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company.
- 5:15 p.m. Jonathan Blitzer, author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, and Javier Auyero, author of Portraits of Persistence: Inequality and Hope in Latin America.
Sunday, November 17
8 a.m. John Mackey, author of The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism (Matt Holt, $35, 9781637745120). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9:05 a.m. Pamela Toler, author of The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany (Beacon Press, $29.95, 9780807063064). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:05 p.m.)
10 a.m. Vince Beiser, author of Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future (Riverhead, $32, 9780593541708). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
12:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. Live coverage of the 2024 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Tex. Highlights include:
- 12:15 p.m. Elizabeth Dias, author of The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America, and Shefali Luthra, author of Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America.
- 1:15 p.m. Brea Baker, author of Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership, and Rebecca Nagle, author of By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land.
- 2:15 p.m. Michael Sierra-Arévalo, author of The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing.
- 3:15 p.m. Ebony Reed and Louise Story, authors of Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap.
- 4:15 p.m. Frank Guridy, author of The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play, and Megan Kimble, author of City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways.
7:30 p.m. James Patterson, co-author of American Heroes (Little, Brown, $32.50, 9780316407205).