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Penguin Settles Price-Fixing Charges

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Stephen King's Next Book Will Be Paper Format Only

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Justice Department Accuses Apple of E-book Price Fixing

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Bestselling Author Pat Conroy Named Chief of U of S. Carolina Press

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Excerpt from Robert Kaiser's new book, "Act of Congress"

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NYT's Mark Leibovich's New Book Looks at Insider Washington, "This Town" Coming July 2013

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David Axelrod Book Planned for 2014

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Thatcher Biography Due Out After Funeral

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Authors Guild President Scott Turow on The Slow Death of the American Author

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"The End Of Everything" as Book Title

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Hillary Clinton's Book on American Foreign Policy due out Next Year

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Opinions on the Current State of Publishing

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Washington Post Book review of "The Great Deformation" by David Stockman

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Fed Chair's Speeches Made Into Book

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Condoleezza Rice Writing New Book

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren Plans Book on Middle Class

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Washington Post Recommends Ten Books About the Iraq War

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Read Excerpt of Soon-To-Be Published Biography of Fox News President Roger Ailes

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Former Treasury Secretary Geithner Writing Memoir of Time in Cabinet

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Hillary Clinton to Write State Dept. Memoir

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The Nation: "The Amazon Effect" on Book Publishing

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Jason Epstein on How Books Will Survive Amazon

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Overview of U.S. Dept. of Justice Lawsuit against Apple & Publishers

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The New York Times: Do Books Have Any Impact on Policy in Washington?

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E-Books:"The New Pamphleteers"

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Amazon Proposes Digital Library

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Chicago Slated to Host American Writers Museum

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What is a Book Today?

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Publishers Develop 'One-Stop' Book Site

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Book TV Schedule

Highlights
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
Book TV at Stanford University: William B. Gould IV, "Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil"
William B. Gould IV
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 1pm (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
Book TV in London: Virginia Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 6pm (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
Book TV in London: Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
"Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married"
Nancy Rubin Stuart
Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order"
Richard Haass
Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 8pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution"
Marcia Coyle
Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life"
Donald Rumsfeld
Next air time: Saturday, May 25th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation"
Paul Farmer
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq"
Victor Davis Hanson
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 1:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
2013 PEN World Voices Festival Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Author of "My Beloved World"
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Looking at Iran: The Rise & Fall of Iran in Public Opinion"
James Zogby
Next air time: Sunday, May 26th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
"Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients"
Ben Goldacre
Next air time: Monday, May 27th, at 8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 26 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Scott Atlas, "In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care"
Scott Atlas
Next air time: Monday, May 27th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
"Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It"
Rosemary Gibson
Next air time: Monday, May 27th, at 10:45pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, May 25th
3pm (ET)
Approx. 2 hr.
2013 William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium: Panel on "Coming Home: The Hopes, Fears, and Challenges of Veterans Returning from War"
Col. Jon Coffin (Ret.); Karl Marlantes; Dave McIntyre; James Wright
5pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Many Unhappy Returns: One Man's Quest to Turn Around the Most Unpopular Organization in America"
Charles Rossotti
6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Encore Booknotes: Tom Philpott, "Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest Held Prisoner of War"
Tom Philpott
7pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married"
Nancy Rubin Stuart
8pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order"
Richard Haass
9pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution"
Marcia Coyle
10pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
11pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life"
Donald Rumsfeld

Sunday, May 26th
12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation"
Paul Farmer
1:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq"
Victor Davis Hanson
2:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away with Siphoning Off America's Wealth"
Les Leopold
4am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President"
Charles Johnson
5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"In the Body of the World: A Memoir"
Eve Ensler
6:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 21 min.
"Payback: The Case for Revenge"
Thane Rosenbaum
7:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation"
Eric Deggans
9am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life"
Donald Rumsfeld
10am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married"
Nancy Rubin Stuart
11am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"If You Knew Me You Would Care"
Rennio Maifredi (Photographer); Zainab Salbi
12pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Diana West, "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character"
1pm (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Book TV at Stanford University: William B. Gould IV, "Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil"
William B. Gould IV
1:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
Panel on Good Wars, Bad Wars with Dale Maharidge and Nick Turse
Dale Maharidge; Nick Turse
3pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II"
John Geoghegan
3:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
"Obsessed: America's Food Addiction - And My Own"
Mika Brzezinski
5pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
Book Party for John Guntzelman, "The Civil War in Color: A Photographic Reenactment of the War Between the States"
John Guntzelman
6pm (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
Book TV in London: Virginia Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson
6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
Book TV in London: Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
2013 PEN World Voices Festival Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Author of "My Beloved World"
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
9pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
10pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick
11pm (ET)
Approx. 50 min.
"Looking at Iran: The Rise & Fall of Iran in Public Opinion"
James Zogby

Monday, May 27th
12am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
1am (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell
1:30am (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Book TV at Stanford University: William B. Gould IV, "Bargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil"
William B. Gould IV
2am (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
Book TV in London: Virginia Nicholson
Virginia Nicholson
2:30am (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
Book TV in London: Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
3am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Olympia Snowe, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress," hosted by A.B. Stoddard, The Hill
4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement"
David Graeber
5:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order"
Richard Haass
6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 7 min.
2013 PEN World Voices Festival Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Author of "My Beloved World"
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
8:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"The Black Russian"
Vladimir Alexandrov
9:45am (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
"In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America"
Laurie Edwards
10:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
"The Martian's Daughter: A Memoir"
Marina von Neumann Whitman
12pm (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power"
Victor Navasky
1pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
After Words: Moises Naim, "The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be," hosted by Lillian Cunningham
2pm (ET)
Approx. 37 min.
Book Party for David Stockman, Author of "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America"
David Stockman
2:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum"
Temple Grandin
4pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Call-in with Larry Elder, author of "Dear Father, Dear Son"
Larry Elder
5pm (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
In Depth: Amy Goodman
8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 26 min.
"Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients"
Ben Goldacre
10pm (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Scott Atlas, "In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care"
Scott Atlas
10:45pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"Medicare Meltdown: How Wall Street and Washington are Ruining Medicare and How to Fix It"
Rosemary Gibson
11:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"In the Body of the World: A Memoir"
Eve Ensler

Tuesday, May 28th
1am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President"
Charles Johnson
2am (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 3 min.
A Celebration of the Life and Work of Philip Roth
Philip Roth et al.
4:15am (ET)
Approx. 32 min.
Book TV in London: Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee
4:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 35 min.
A Conversation with Edward Jay Epstein and Errol Morris
Edward Jay Epstein; Errol Morris
6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 23 min.
"Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward Levi"
Jack Fuller

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.   

Jun 2 Rick Atkinson     http://liberationtrilogy.com/
July 7  Mary Roach       www.maryroach.net
Aug 4  Dr. Ben Carson www.carsonschholars.org
 

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 2013, 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, Harlem Book Festival, 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.