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, August 30
3:25 p.m. Sarah Gold McBride, author of Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America (Harvard University Press, $32.95, 9780674249295), at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, Wash.
4:30 p.m. Hannah Wunsch, author of The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care (Greystone Books, $19.95, 9781778402135).
Sunday, August 31
8 a.m. Kathryn Harkup, author of V Is for Venom: Agatha Christie's Chemicals of Death (Bloomsbury Sigma, $28, 9781399413077). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9:35 a.m. Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI (Penguin Press, $32, 9780593657508). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:35 p.m.)
10:50 a.m. Megan Greenwell, author of Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream (Dey Street, $29.99, 9780063299351), at Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts bookstore in Berkeley, Calif. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:50 p.m.)
11:55 a.m. Robert George, author of Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment (Encounter Books, $34.99, 9781641774215).
1 p.m. Chris Sweeney, author of The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne (Avid Reader Press, $30, 9781668025840), at Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, Mass.
1:50 p.m. Laura Poppick, author of Strata: Stories from Deep Time (W.W. Norton, $29.99, 978-1324021605), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
2:45 p.m. Emily M. Bender, co-author of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want (Harper, $32, 9780063418561), at Third Place Books in Lake Forest, Wash.
3:50 p.m. Adam Aleksic, author of Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (Knopf, $29, 9780593804070).
6:55 p.m. Gianno Caldwell, author of The Day My Brother Was Murdered: My Journey Through America's Violent Crime Crisis (Broadside Books, $32, 9780063375253).
