Book Fairs

Savannah Book Festival

Fair starts: Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Fair ends: Sunday, February 19, 2012

Location: Savannah, Georgia
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Tucson Festival of Books

Fair starts: Saturday, March 10, 2012
Fair ends: Sunday, March 11, 2012

Location: Tucson, Arizona
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Virginia Festival of the Book

Fair starts: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Fair ends: Sunday, March 25, 2012

Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
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Philadelphia Book Festival

Fair starts: Monday, April 16, 2012
Fair ends: Saturday, April 21, 2012

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Annapolis Book Festival

Fair date: Saturday, April 21, 2012
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
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Alabama Book Festival

Fair date: Saturday, April 21, 2012
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
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Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Fair starts: Saturday, April 21, 2012
Fair ends: Sunday, April 22, 2012

Location: Los Angeles, California
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Harlem Book Fair

Fair starts: Friday, April 27, 2012
Fair ends: Saturday, April 28, 2012

Location: Newark, New Jersey
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South Carolina Book Festival

Fair starts: Friday, May 18, 2012
Fair ends: Sunday, May 20, 2012

Location: Columbia, South Carolina
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Gaithersburg Book Festival

Fair date: Saturday, May 19, 2012
Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland
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Book Expo America

Fair starts: Monday, June 4, 2012
Fair ends: Thursday, June 7, 2012

Location: New York, New York
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Printers Row Lit Fest

Fair starts: Saturday, June 9, 2012
Fair ends: Sunday, June 10, 2012

Location: Chicago, Illinois
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AJC Decatur Book Festival

Fair starts: Saturday, September 1, 2012
Fair ends: Monday, September 3, 2012

Location: Decatur, Georgia
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Brooklyn Book Festival

Fair date: Sunday, September 23, 2012
Location: Brooklyn, New York
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Baltimore Book Festival

Fair starts: Friday, September 28, 2012
Fair ends: Sunday, September 30, 2012

Location: Baltimore, Maryland
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South Dakota Festival of Books

Fair starts: Friday, September 28, 2012
Fair ends: Sunday, September 30, 2012

Location: Deadwood, South Dakota
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West Virginia Book Festival

Fair starts: Saturday, October 13, 2012
Fair ends: Sunday, October 14, 2012

Location: Charleston, West Virginia
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Southern Festival of Books

Fair starts: Sunday, October 14, 2012
Fair ends: Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Location: Nashville, Tennessee
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Texas Book Festival

Fair starts: Saturday, October 27, 2012
Fair ends: Sunday, October 28, 2012

Location: Austin, Texas
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Miami Book Fair International

Fair starts: Sunday, November 11, 2012
Fair ends: Sunday, November 18, 2012

Location: Miami, Florida
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This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights

"Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, From the Courtroom to the Kill Zones"
Connie Rice

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism"
Carl Bogus

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse"
Sen. Jim DeMint

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 8pm (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
"American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination"
Barry Sanders

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Big-Time Sports in American Universities"
Charles Clotfelter

Next air time: Sunday, February 12th, at 12am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful"
Glenn Greenwald

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
Book TV at Georgetown University: Bonnie Morris, “Revenge of the Women’s Studies Professor”
Bonnie Morris

Next air time: Sunday, February 12th, at 1pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"Roger Williams and The Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty"
John Barry

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th, at 2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 12 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, February 11th

8am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941"
Stanley Weintraub
9am (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
In Depth: Mark Steyn
3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"1812: The Navy's War"
George Daughan
4:15pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"No Animals Were Harmed" and "Calexico!"
Peter Laufer
5pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941"
Stanley Weintraub
8pm (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
"Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse"
Sen. Jim DeMint
11pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination"
Barry Sanders

Sunday, February 12th

12am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Big-Time Sports in American Universities"
Charles Clotfelter
4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 27 min.
"No Fear: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA"
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
8am (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941"
Stanley Weintraub
9am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination"
Barry Sanders
10am (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"No Animals Were Harmed" and "Calexico!"
Peter Laufer
11am (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
"Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse"
Sen. Jim DeMint
2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Our Time: Breaking the Silence of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
Josh Seefried
5:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"Milosevic: A Biography"
Adam LeBor
10pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Big-Time Sports in American Universities"
Charles Clotfelter

Monday, February 13th

2am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Elizabeth The Queen"
Sally Bedell Smith
4am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Big-Time Sports in American Universities"
Charles Clotfelter
5am (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
"Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse"
Sen. Jim DeMint
6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Our Time: Breaking the Silence of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
Josh Seefried

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 January 2011, Phyllis Bennis was our guest.  R. Emmett Tyrrell was our February 2011 guest, and MIT historian Pauline Maier appeared in March.  Ishmael Reed appeared in April, Tibor Machan in May from Los Angeles, and law professor and author Eric Posner from Chicago in June.  Native American Writer and Pulitzer finalist Linda Hogan joined us in July 2011. Bestselling author and columnist Ann Coulter was our guest in August; Ellis Cose in September.  Michael Moore joined us in October, Ben Mezrich in November, and David Brooks in December.  In 2012...Chris Hedges was our guest on January 1st.
 
FEB 5  Mark Steyn

MAR 4  Randall Kennedy

MAY 6  Tom Brokaw

 

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 2011, we covered 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.

Our next planned festival coverage will be the Savannah Book Festival LIVE on February 18, 2012, followed by Tucson's Book Festival on March 17, 2012.

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