Encore Booknotes

About Encore Booknotes

Encore Booknotes are hour-long interviews from the archives of one of the network's long-running programs, Booknotes. Encore Booknotes airs each weekend on Saturday at 6pm (ET).

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Coming Up on Book TV

Encore Booknotes: "The Nixon Years: 1969-1974 Whitehouse to Watergate"
Fred Maroon

Next air time: Saturday, February 4th at 6pm (ET)

Encore Booknotes: Lerone Bennett Jr., "Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream"
Lerone Bennett, Jr.

Next air time: Saturday, February 11th at 6pm (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.

Encore Booknotes: Jill Krementz, "The Writer's Desk"
Jill Krementz

Last aired: January 28, 2012

Encore Booknotes:  Jill Krementz, "The Writer's Desk"
The Downing Street Years
Margaret Thatcher

Last aired: December 31, 2011

The Downing Street Years
Encore Booknotes: Why Read?
Mark Edmundson

Last aired: November 26, 2011

Encore Booknotes: Why Read?
Encore Booknotes: Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt

Last aired: November 12, 2011

Encore Booknotes: Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Encore Booknotes: Susan Eisenhower, "Breaking Free"
Susan Eisenhower

Last aired: November 5, 2011

Encore Booknotes: Susan Eisenhower, "Breaking Free"
Encore Booknotes: Norman Rockwell: A Life
Laura Claridge

Last aired: October 29, 2011

Encore Booknotes: Norman Rockwell: A Life
Encore Booknotes: A World Transformed
George H. W. Bush; Brent Scowcroft

Last aired: October 8, 2011

Encore Booknotes: A World Transformed
Encore Booknotes: Liz Carpenter, "Unplanned Parenthood "
Liz Carpenter

Last aired: September 17, 2011

Encore Booknotes: Liz Carpenter, "Unplanned Parenthood "
Encore Booknotes: Eleanor Clift and Tom Brazaitis "War Without Bloodshed"
Tom Brazaitis; Eleanor Clift

Last aired: August 6, 2011

Encore Booknotes: Eleanor Clift and Tom Brazaitis "War Without Bloodshed"
Encore Booknotes: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt

Last aired: June 27, 2011

Encore Booknotes: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Encore Booknotes: Useful Idiots
Mona Charen

Last aired: June 18, 2011

Encore Booknotes: Useful Idiots
Encore Booknotes: Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June
Harrison Salisbury

Last aired: June 4, 2011

Encore Booknotes: Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June
Encore Booknotes: Peter Jennings "The Century"
Peter Jennings

Last aired: May 28, 2011

Encore Booknotes: Peter Jennings "The Century"
Encore Booknotes: The Father of Spin
Larry Tye

Last aired: May 14, 2011

Encore Booknotes: The Father of Spin
Encore Booknotes: Elizabeth Norman "We Band of Angels"
Elizabeth Norman

Last aired: April 23, 2011

Encore Booknotes: Elizabeth Norman "We Band of Angels"
Encore Booknotes: Henry Louis Gates, "Colored People: A Memoir"
Henry Louis Gates

Last aired: April 9, 2011

Encore Booknotes: Henry Louis Gates, "Colored People: A Memoir"
Encore Booknotes: James Bradley, "Flags of Our Fathers"
James Bradley

Last aired: February 19, 2011

Encore Booknotes: James Bradley, "Flags of Our Fathers"
Encore Booknotes: "In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade"
Robin Wright

Last aired: February 5, 2011

Encore Booknotes: "In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade"

This Weekend's TV Schedule

Beginning Saturdays at 8am (ET)

Highlights

LIVE In Depth: Mark Steyn
Next air time: Sunday, February 5th, at 12pm (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
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After Words: Deborah Scroggins, "Wanted Women," hosted by Akbar Ahmed, American University
Next air time: Saturday, February 4th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America"
David Pietrusza

Next air time: Saturday, February 4th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Elizabeth The Queen"
Sally Bedell Smith

Next air time: Saturday, February 4th, at 10am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right"
Thomas Frank

Next air time: Saturday, February 4th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores"
Greg Palast

Next air time: Saturday, February 4th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
"Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America"
David Kennedy

Next air time: Saturday, February 4th, at 11am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World"
Kati Marton (Author of Introduction); Strobe Talbott (Contributor)

Next air time: Sunday, February 5th, at 4am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
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Book TV Visits Beaumont, Texas

Next air time: Saturday, February 4th, at 12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.

Also Airing...

Saturday, February 4th

10am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Elizabeth The Queen"
Sally Bedell Smith
12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
BOOK TV In Beaumont, Texas
Book TV Visits Beaumont, Texas
1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears"
Daniel Blake Smith
3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847"
Winston Groom
8pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Elizabeth The Queen"
Sally Bedell Smith

Sunday, February 5th

4am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World"
Kati Marton (Author of Introduction); Strobe Talbott (Contributor)
5am (ET)
Approx. 40 min.
"Life Upon These Shores: Looking At African American History 1500-2008"
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
7am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
"Our Time: Breaking the Silence of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"
Josh Seefried
9am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World"
Kati Marton (Author of Introduction); Strobe Talbott (Contributor)
10am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Elizabeth The Queen"
Sally Bedell Smith
5pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Elizabeth The Queen"
Sally Bedell Smith
11pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World"
Kati Marton (Author of Introduction); Strobe Talbott (Contributor)

Monday, February 6th

12am (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
In Depth: Mark Steyn
5am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847"
Winston Groom

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

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 on February 18, 2012.

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