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, September 6
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Live coverage of the 2025 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Authors appearing include Kwame Alexander, Leigh Bardugo, Katherine Applegate, Ron Chernow, John Green, Stephen Graham Jones, Nnedi Okorafor, V.E. Schwab, and R.L. Stine, among many others.
Sunday, September 7
9 a.m. George Takei, author of It Rhymes With Takei (Top Shelf Productions, $29.99, 9781603095747). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
10 a.m. Tim Weiner, author of The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century (Mariner, $35, 9780063270183), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 10 p.m.)
11:10 a.m. Katie Mitchell, author of Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores (Clarkson Potter, $26.99, 9780593581346).
12:20 p.m. Michael Grunwald, author of We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate (Simon & Schuster, $29.99, 9781982160074).
