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 23
8:55 a.m. Sarah Smarsh, author of Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class (Scribner, $29.99, 9781668055601), at Watermark Books & Cafe in Wichita, Kan. (Re-airs Saturday at 8:55 p.m.)
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Live coverage of the 2024 Miami Book Fair. Highlights include:
- 11 a.m. Stacey Abrams, author of Stacey Speaks Up (HarperCollins, $19.99, 9780063271876).
- 12 p.m. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering (Little, Brown, $32, 9780316575805).
- 1 p.m. Kara Swisher, author of Burn Book: A Tech Love Story (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781982163891).
- 4 p.m. Frank Bruni, author of The Age of Grievance (Avid Reader Press, $28.99, 9781668016435).
- 5 p.m. Patrick J. Kennedy, co-author of Profiles in Mental Health Courage (Dutton, $30, 9780593471760).
6 p.m. James S. Burling, author of Nowhere to Live: The Hidden Story of America's Housing Crisis (Skyhorse, $32.99, 9781510781535).
7:05 p.m. Meghan Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli, authors of The Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change (Rowman & Littlefield, $26, 9781538179697).
Sunday, November 24
8 a.m. Mario Livio, author of Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest for Cosmic Life (Basic Books, $32, 9781541602960). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
10 a.m. Stephanie Gorton, author of The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America (Ecco, $32, 9780063036291). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
3 p.m. Griffin Dunne, author of The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir (Penguin Press, $30, 9780593652824), at the Miami Book Fair.
4 p.m. Joy Buolamwini, author of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines (Random House, $22, 9780593241844), at the Miami Book Fair.
5 p.m. Ben Macintyre, author of The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World (Crown, $32, 9780593728093).