Book Parties and Festivals

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Each year, Book TV attends and tapes events at fairs, festivals and book parties. These programs can be searched and viewed here.

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2012 Savannah Book Festival
Event Coverage

Next air time: Saturday, February 18th at 9:30am (ET)

Archived Programs

Programs shown in this archive cover the past year. To search for programs in earlier years, please use the search functionality above.

BOOK TV In Beaumont, Texas
Book TV Visits Beaumont, Texas

Last aired: February 4, 2012

BOOK TV In Beaumont, Texas
2011 Texas Book Festival: Panel on the Arab Spring with Robin Wright, James Zogby, and Austin Bay
Austin Bay; Robin Wright; James Zogby

Last aired: January 15, 2012

2011 Texas Book Festival: Panel on the Arab Spring with Robin Wright, James Zogby, and Austin Bay
2011 Texas Book Festival: Panel on American Debt with H. W. Brands and David Graeber
H.W. Brands; David Graeber

Last aired: January 3, 2012

2011 Texas Book Festival: Panel on American Debt with H. W. Brands and David Graeber
2011 Harlem Book Fair - Panel: African American Economic History
Carol Jenkins; Julianne Malveaux

Last aired: January 2, 2012

"Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America"
Ann Coulter

Last aired: January 1, 2012

"Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America"
2011 National Book Festival: Maya Jasanoff, "Liberty's Exiles"
Maya Jasanoff

Last aired: December 26, 2011

2011 National Book Festival: Maya Jasanoff, "Liberty's Exiles"
2011 National Book Festival: Edmund Morris, "Colonel Roosevelt"
Edmund Morris

Last aired: December 25, 2011

2011 National Book Festival: Edmund Morris, "Colonel Roosevelt"
Fall for the Book Mason Award Presentation to Stephen King
Stephen King

Last aired: November 27, 2011

Fall for the Book Mason Award Presentation to Stephen King
2011 Miami Book Fair International: SUNDAY Coverage
Multiple Authors

Last aired: November 21, 2011

2011 Miami Book Fair International: SUNDAY Coverage
2011 Miami Book Fair International: SATURDAY Coverage
Multiple Authors

Last aired: November 20, 2011

2011 Miami Book Fair International: SATURDAY Coverage
2011 Brooklyn Book Festival - Labor Panel
William Adler; Brian Purnell; Clarence Taylor

Last aired: November 6, 2011

2011 Brooklyn Book Festival - Labor Panel
2011 Brooklyn Book Festival - Politics Panel
Major Owens

Last aired: November 6, 2011

2011 Brooklyn Book Festival - "Arab Spring and the Seasons Ahead"
Sinan Antoon; Yasmine El Rashidi; Lucette Lagnado; Hisham Matar

Last aired: November 5, 2011

2011 Brooklyn Book Festival - "Arab Spring and the Seasons Ahead"
2011 Texas Book Festival: LIVE Sunday Coverage
2011 Texas Book Festival

Last aired: October 24, 2011

2011 Texas Book Festival: LIVE Sunday Coverage
2011 Texas Book Festival: LIVE Saturday Coverage
2011 Texas Book Festival

Last aired: October 23, 2011

2011 Texas Book Festival: LIVE Saturday Coverage
2011 Harlem Book Fair - Panel: Manning Marable's Malcolm X
Zaheer Ali; Herb Boyd; Peniel Joseph; Sonia Sanchez; Yohuru Williams

Last aired: October 10, 2011

2011 Harlem Book Fair - Panel: Manning Marable's Malcolm X
2011 National Book Festival - Sunday
All Day Coverage

Last aired: September 26, 2011

2011 National Book Festival - Sunday
2011 National Book Festival - Saturday
All Day Coverage

Last aired: September 25, 2011

"Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans"
Alison Owings

Last aired: September 17, 2011

"Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans"
"Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy"
Carrie Pitzulo

Last aired: September 6, 2011

"Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy"
FreedomFest 2011: The Big Debate - Public Unions: Good or Bad for America?
Thea Lee; Stephen Moore

Last aired: September 6, 2011

FreedomFest 2011: The Big Debate - Public Unions: Good or Bad for America?
"Reawakening Virtues: Restoring What Makes America Great"
Armstrong Williams

Last aired: September 6, 2011

"Reawakening Virtues: Restoring What Makes America Great"
"Muzzled: The Assault On Honest Debate"
Juan Williams

Last aired: August 28, 2011

"Muzzled: The Assault On Honest Debate"
2011 Harlem Book Fair - Panel: History of African-American Humor
Carlton Brown; Jam Donaldson; Sabrina Lamb; Mel Watkins; Larry Wilmore

Last aired: August 27, 2011

"Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir"
Oscar Hijuelos

Last aired: August 21, 2011

2011 Tucson Festival of Books - Astronomy Panel
Doug Isbell; Stephen Strom

Last aired: August 20, 2011

"Shock of Gray"
Ted Fishman

Last aired: August 15, 2011

"Shock of Gray"
Book Expo America: Panel on Feminism in Writing Today
Julie Otsuka; Francine Prose; Karen Russell

Last aired: August 1, 2011

Book Expo America: Panel on Feminism in Writing Today
2011 Tucson Festival of Books - Panel on Women in Leadership
Gloria Feldt; Connie Mariano

Last aired: July 24, 2011

2011 Tucson Festival of Books - Panel on Women in Leadership
2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Panel: "American History: Blood & Back Rooms"
Susan Dunn; Jim Newton; Thomas Powers

Last aired: July 23, 2011

2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Panel: "Obama: Two Years In"
Eric Alterman; Garrett Graff; Katrina vanden Heuvel

Last aired: July 18, 2011

2011 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards
Alex Tizon; Isabel Wilkerson

Last aired: July 17, 2011

2011 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards
Book Expo America: The Education Debate
Steve Perry

Last aired: July 11, 2011

Book Expo America: The Education Debate
2011 Gaithersburg Book Festival - State of the Book Panel
Mark LaFramboise; Jed Lyons; Gail Ross; Geoff Shandler

Last aired: July 11, 2011

2011 Gaithersburg Book Festival - State of the Book Panel
"A Moment in the Sun"
John Sayles

Last aired: July 10, 2011

"A Moment in the Sun"
Book Expo America: Madison v. Monroe Debate
Chris DeRose

Last aired: June 19, 2011

Book Expo America: Madison v. Monroe Debate
2011 Tucson Festival of Books - Panel on Human Rights and the Border
Kathryn Ferguson; Ted Parks; Norma Price; Sam Quinones; Margaret Regan

Last aired: June 12, 2011

2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Panel: "Inconvenient Truths"
Erik Conway; Timothy Ferris; Seth Mnookin; Naomi Oreskes

Last aired: June 12, 2011

2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Panel: "Inconvenient Truths"
2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Panel: "Publishing in the 21st Century"
Cary Goldstein; Kim Robinson; Johnny Temple; Robert Weil

Last aired: June 12, 2011

2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Panel: "Publishing in the 21st Century"
Book Expo America: Digital Ebook and Bookstores Discussion
Michael Norris

Last aired: June 12, 2011

Book Expo America: Digital Ebook and Bookstores Discussion
2011 BEA Floor Interviews: Cary Goldstein
Cary Goldstein

Last aired: June 11, 2011

2011 BEA Floor Interviews: Cary Goldstein
Book Expo America: Michael Moore
Michael Moore

Last aired: May 30, 2011

Book Expo America: Michael Moore
Book Expo America: 3rd Annual Librarian Shout and Share
various various

Last aired: May 30, 2011

Book Expo America: 3rd Annual Librarian Shout and Share
Book Expo America: Book and Author Breakfast
Roger Ebert; Anne Enright; Erik Larson; Jim Lehrer

Last aired: May 30, 2011

Book Expo America: Book and Author Breakfast
2011 Tucson Festival of Books - Politics Panel
Kevin Coe; Kate Kenski

Last aired: May 29, 2011

2011 Tucson Festival of Books - Politics Panel
2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Panel: "History, Identity & Purpose: California, Chicanos, & Beyond"
Sal Castro; Mario Garcia; Daniel Hernandez; Miriam Pawel

Last aired: May 22, 2011

2011 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Panel: "History, Identity & Purpose: California, Chicanos, & Beyond"
2011 Gaithersburg Book Festival
Multiple Authors

Last aired: May 22, 2011

2008 Harlem Book Fair: Mississippi Freedom Riders
Eric Etheridge; Helen Singleton; Robert Singleton; Lewis Zuchman

Last aired: May 15, 2011

2008 Harlem Book Fair:  Mississippi Freedom Riders
2011 Tucson Festival of Books - Panel on the 1960's
Martha Tod Dudman; Joyce Maynard; Mark Rudd

Last aired: April 25, 2011

2011 Tucson Festival of Books - Panel on the 1960's
2011 Tucson Festival of Books - Panel on Immigration Memoirs
Chiquis Barron; Ishmael Beah; Raul Castro; Paula Fass

Last aired: April 24, 2011

2011 Tucson Festival of Books - Panel on Immigration Memoirs
2011 Tucson Festival of Books - History and the American West Panel
Stephen Fried; Jeff Guinn; Michael Hiltzik

Last aired: April 17, 2011

2011 Tucson Festival of Books - History and the American West Panel
LIVE from the 2011 Annapolis Book Festival
multiple authors; Author Panels Event Coverage

Last aired: April 10, 2011

2011 Virginia Festival of the Book Panel: "Voices from the Middle East"
Laila El-Haddad; Joshua Foust; Chas Freeman

Last aired: March 28, 2011

2011 Virginia Festival of the Book Panel: "Voices from the Middle East"
2011 Tucson Festival of Books
Event Coverage

Last aired: March 14, 2011

2011 Tucson Festival of Books
Event Coverage

Last aired: March 13, 2011

2009 Key West Literary Seminar: Ivy Meeropol and Michael Meeropol
David Levering Lewis; Ivy Meeropol; Michael Meeropol

Last aired: March 6, 2011

2009 Key West Literary Seminar: Ivy Meeropol and Michael Meeropol

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.