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.
Sunday, November 16
8 a.m. Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding (Random House, $31, 9780593449929), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. (Re-airs Sunday at 8:15 p.m.)
10:50 a.m. Caleb Gayle, author of Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State (Riverhead, $33, 9780593543795), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:30 p.m.)
11:50 a.m. Kenneth P. Vogel, author of Devils' Advocates: The Hidden Story of Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden, and the Washington Insiders on the Payrolls of Corrupt Foreign Interests (Morrow, $30, 9780063341210). (Re-airs Sunday at 11:40 p.m.)
12:55 to 7 p.m. Coverage of the 2025 Brooklyn Book Festival. Highlights include:
- 12:55 p.m. Clay Risen, author of Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, and Anne Applebaum, author of Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World.
- 1:46 p.m. Saeed Jones, author of The People's Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward, Scaachi Koul, author of Sucker Punch: Essays, and Maris Kreizman, author of I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays.
- 2:36 p.m. Pria Anand, author of The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains, Susannah Cahalan, author of The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, and Olga Khazan, author of Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change.
- 3:30 p.m. Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, and Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity.
- 4:16 p.m. Molly Jong-Fast, author of How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir, Amanda Hess, author of Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age, and Hala Alyan, author of I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir.
- 5:09 p.m. Deborah Archer, author of Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality, and Susan Sturm, author of What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions.
- 6:02 p.m. Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, Emily Raboteau, author of Lessons for Survival, and Eric Dean Wilson, author of After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort.