LCV

Book TV & Publishing News on Twitter

Recently on Book TV

"Dangerous Ambition, Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power"
Susan Hertog
"Dangerous Ambition, Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power"
In Depth: Tom Brokaw
In Depth: Tom Brokaw
"The Death of Liberalism"
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
"The Death of Liberalism"
"The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government"
Eric Liu
"The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government"
"James Madison and the Making of America"
Kevin Gutzman
"James Madison and the Making of America"
"Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power"
Rachel Maddow
"Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power"
"The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed"
Josh Meyer
"The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed"
Encore Booknotes: Stephanie Gutmann, "The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?"
Stephanie Gutmann
Encore Booknotes: Stephanie Gutmann, "The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?"
"Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency"
Mark Updegrove
"Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency"
"Permanent Emergency: The Truth About the TSA and the Fight for the Future of American Security"
Kip Hawley
"Permanent Emergency: The Truth About the TSA and the Fight for the Future of American Security"
After Words: Van Jones, "Rebuild the Dream," hosted by Jackie Kucinich, USA Today
After Words: Van Jones, "Rebuild the Dream," hosted by Jackie Kucinich, USA Today
A Tribute to Christopher Hitchens
Multiple Speakers
A Tribute to Christopher Hitchens
2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Interview with Elizabeth Price Foley, "The Tea Party: Three Principles"
Elizabeth Price Foley
2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Interview with Elizabeth Price Foley, "The Tea Party: Three Principles"
"The Social Conquest of Earth"
E.O. Wilson
"The Social Conquest of Earth"
"Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics"
Ross Douthat
"Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics"
"The Riot Within: My Journey From Rebellion to Redemption"
Rodney King
"The Riot Within: My Journey From Rebellion to Redemption"
"Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism"
Christopher Daly
"Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism"
Panel discussion of Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Ruby Dee; Sonia Sanchez; Alice Walker
Panel discussion of Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
"The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption"
Clay Johnson
"The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption"
After Words: Seth Jones, "Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11," hosted by Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press Intelligence Reporter
After Words: Seth Jones, "Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11," hosted by Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press Intelligence Reporter
Book TV at University of Virginia: Brian Balogh, "A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America"
Brian Balogh
Book TV at University of Virginia: Brian Balogh, "A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America"
Book TV at University of Virginia: Larry Sabato, "Pendulum Swing"
Larry Sabato
Book TV at University of Virginia: Larry Sabato, "Pendulum Swing"
"Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest To Clean Up Sin-Loving New York"
Richard Zacks
"Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest To Clean Up Sin-Loving New York"
"Richard G. Lugar: Statesman of the Senate: Crafting Foreign Policy From Capitol Hill"
John Shaw
"Richard G. Lugar: Statesman of the Senate: Crafting Foreign Policy From Capitol Hill"
Invading Mexico: America's Continental Dream And The Mexican War, 1846-1848
Joseph Wheelan
Invading Mexico: America's Continental Dream And The Mexican War, 1846-1848
"Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11"
Jack Goldsmith
"Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11"
2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Panel on The American Century
John Farrell; Jim Newton; Richard Reeves
2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Panel on The American Century

News About Books

C-SPAN Radio's iPhone App

This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights
LIVE 2012 Gaithersburg Book Festival LIVE
various authors
Next air time: Saturday, May 19th, at 10:15am (ET)
Approx. 7 hr.
After Words: Jay Nordlinger, "Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, The Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World," hosted by Matt Murphy, Wall Street Journal International Editor
Next air time: Saturday, May 19th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyages: The Titanic's First Class Passengers and Their World"
Hugh Brewster
Next air time: Saturday, May 19th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 33 min.
"Grace and Grit: My Fight For Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond"
Lilly Ledbetter
Next air time: Saturday, May 19th, at 8:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources"
Michael Klare
Next air time: Saturday, May 19th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"Bay and Her Boys: Unexpected Lessons I Learned as a (Single) Mom"
Bay Buchanan
Next air time: Saturday, May 19th, at 9:15am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Multiplication is for White People: Raising Expectations For Other People's Children"
Lisa Delpit
Next air time: Sunday, May 20th, at 8pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines"
Michael Mann
Next air time: Sunday, May 20th, at 7am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It"
Amy Gutmann; Dennis Thompson
Next air time: Sunday, May 20th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, May 19th
8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"King's Counsel: A Memoir of War, Espionage, and Diplomacy in the Middle East"
Vernon Loeb
9:15am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Bay and Her Boys: Unexpected Lessons I Learned as a (Single) Mom"
Bay Buchanan
LIVE 10:15am (ET)
Approx. 7 hr.
2012 Gaithersburg Book Festival LIVE
various authors
5:15pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee"
Jeff Himmelman
6pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
Encore Booknotes: Deborah Shapley, "Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara"
Deborah Shapley
7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 33 min.
"Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyages: The Titanic's First Class Passengers and Their World"
Hugh Brewster
8:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Grace and Grit: My Fight For Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond"
Lilly Ledbetter
10pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
After Words: Jay Nordlinger, "Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, The Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World," hosted by Matt Murphy, Wall Street Journal International Editor
11pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources"
Michael Klare

Sunday, May 20th
12am (ET)
Approx. 7 hr.
2012 Gaithersburg Book Festival LIVE
various authors
7am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines"
Michael Mann
8am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the Nation"
Scott Farris
9am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 17 min.
"Latin Lessons: How South America Stopped Listening to the United States and Started Prospering"
Hal Weitzman
10:15am (ET)
Approx. 33 min.
"Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us"
Maggie Koerth-Baker
11am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers - and the Coming Cashless Society"
David Wolman
12pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Van Jones, "Rebuild the Dream," hosted by Jackie Kucinich, USA Today
1pm (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
Book TV at University of Virginia: J.C.A. Stagg, "The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent"
J.C.A. Stagg
1:25pm (ET)
Approx. 22 min.
Book TV at University of Virginia: Farzaneh Milani, "Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement"
Farzaneh Milani
1:50pm (ET)
Approx. 10 min.
Book TV at University of Virginia: Allen Lynch, "Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft"
Allen Lynch
2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Grace and Grit: My Fight For Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond"
Lilly Ledbetter
3:15pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency after 9/11"
Jack Goldsmith
4:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"The Emergency State: America's Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs"
David Unger
5:15pm (ET)
Approx. 33 min.
"Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us"
Maggie Koerth-Baker
6pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Charles Lindbergh and The Spirit of St. Louis"
Dominick Pisano; Robert van der Linden
7pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Bay and Her Boys: Unexpected Lessons I Learned as a (Single) Mom"
Bay Buchanan
8pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"Multiplication is for White People: Raising Expectations For Other People's Children"
Lisa Delpit
9pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
After Words: Jay Nordlinger, "Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, The Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World," hosted by Matt Murphy, Wall Street Journal International Editor
10pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines"
Michael Mann
11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It"
Amy Gutmann; Dennis Thompson

Monday, May 21st
12am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
After Words: Jay Nordlinger, "Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, The Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World," hosted by Matt Murphy, Wall Street Journal International Editor
1am (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
Book TV at University of Virginia: J.C.A. Stagg, "The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent"
J.C.A. Stagg
1:25am (ET)
Approx. 22 min.
Book TV at University of Virginia: Farzaneh Milani, "Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement"
Farzaneh Milani
1:50am (ET)
Approx. 10 min.
Book TV at University of Virginia: Allen Lynch, "Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft"
Allen Lynch
2am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
A Discussion on U.S. Foreign Policy in Pakistan and Afghanistan with Ahmed Rashid and Steve Coll
Steve Coll; Ahmed Rashid
3am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
After Words: Jay Nordlinger, "Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, The Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World," hosted by Matt Murphy, Wall Street Journal International Editor
4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 33 min.
"Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyages: The Titanic's First Class Passengers and Their World"
Hugh Brewster
5:45am (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Dangerous Ambition, Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power"
Susan Hertog
6:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery"
Noam Scheiber

Upcoming Programs

IN DEPTH

In Depth is Book TV's monthly interview/call-in program with an author featuring his or her body of work.  It's LIVE on the first Sunday of every month.   
In 2012...Chris Hedges was our guest on January 1st, and Mark Steyn appeared on February 5, 2012.  Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law was our March 2012 guest.  National Review's Richard Brookhiser appreared in April.  Tom Brokaw was our May guest.  Here are some upcoming In Depths:
 
JUNE 3 Anna Quindlen

 You can watch all past In Depths online by using the "Search" function in the upper left hand corner of this website.

FAIRS AND FESTIVALS

Book TV covers many book festivals each year, many of them LIVE.  In 2012, our festival coverage will include book festivals in Tucson, Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlottesville, New York, Freedom Fest in Vegas, Brooklyn, the Roosevelt Reading Festival in Hyde Park, NY, the Texas Book Festival and Miami Book Fair International in November.  You can watch those we've already covered online.  Find them using the "Search" button in the upper lefthand corner of this homepage.

For a complete list of upcoming book festivals, click on the BOOK FAIRS tab at the top of the page.