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, April 25
8:08 p.m. Robert P. Watson, author of Declaration: The Story of American Independence (Bloomsbury Academic, $35, 9798216371557).
Sunday, April 26
8 a.m. Buck Sexton, author of Manufacturing Delusion (Sentinel, $32, 9780593716588). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:13 p.m.)
10:45 a.m. Ellen Carol Dubois, author of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary Life (Basic Books, $35, 9781541647510). (Re-airs Sunday at 10:54 p.m.)
11:45 a.m. Jenna Nicholas, author of Enlightened Bottom Line: Exploring the Intersection of Spirituality, Business, and Investing (Amplify Publishing, $19.99, 9798900261546).
3:05 p.m. Geoff Bennett, author of Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to '90s Sitcoms (Harper, $32.99, 9780063418172).
4:10-7 p.m. At the National Black Writers Conference at Medgar Evers College in New York City
- 4:10 p.m. A discussion on climate change and Black authors with Trymaine Lee, author of A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America; Cebo Campbell, author of Sky Full of Elephants: A Novel; Chelsea Frazier, co-author of All These Liberations: Women Artists in the Eileen Harris Norton Collection; and Natalie Baszile, author of We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy.
- 5:39 p.m. A discussion on censorship with Amistad Books editorial director Abby West; Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Happy Land; Ayo Sekai, author of A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse; and Clarence A. Haynes, author of The Legacy of Jim Crow.