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, December 7
10:25 a.m. Debra Bruno, author of A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family (Three Hills, $32.95, 9781501776564), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Saturday at 10:25 p.m.)
Sunday, December 8
9:15 a.m. Coverage of the 11th annual Kirkus Prize, given by Kirkus to authors of nonfiction, fiction, and young readers' books. (Re-airs Sunday at 9:15 p.m.)
10 a.m. T.J. English, author of The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced America (Morrow, $32.50, 9780063265530). (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
2 to 6:55 p.m. Coverage of the 2024 Wisconsin Book Festival in Madison, Wis. Highlights include:
- 2 p.m. Nicola Twilley, author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves.
- 3 p.m. Mark Daley, author of Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family.
- 3:56 p.m. Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz, author of The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America.
- 4:55 p.m. Bill Adair, author of Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy.
- 5:57 p.m. Barbara McQuade, author of Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America.
6:55 p.m. Nicole Gelinas, author of Movement: New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car (Empire State Editions, $44.95, 9781531508210).