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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Encore Booknotes, "Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer"
Richard Rhodes

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd 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: "My American Journey"
Colin Powell

Last aired: May 11, 2013

Encore Booknotes: "My American Journey"
Encore Booknotes: Margaret Thatcher, "The Downing Street Years"
Margaret Thatcher

Last aired: April 13, 2013

Encore Booknotes:  Margaret Thatcher, "The Downing Street Years"
First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents
Bonnie Angelo

Last aired: April 6, 2013

First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents
Encore Booknotes: Denis Brian, "Einstein: A Life"
Denis Brian

Last aired: March 2, 2013

Encore Booknotes: Denis Brian, "Einstein: A Life"
Encore Booknotes: Elizabeth Norman "We Band of Angels"
Elizabeth Norman

Last aired: February 9, 2013

Encore Booknotes: Elizabeth Norman "We Band of Angels"
Encore Booknotes: Richard Ben Cramer, "What It Takes: The Way to the White House"
Richard Ben Cramer (1950-2013)

Last aired: January 12, 2013

Encore Booknotes: Richard Ben Cramer, "What It Takes: The Way to the White House"
Encore Booknotes: Jean Strouse, "Morgan: American Financier"
Jean Strouse

Last aired: December 15, 2012

Encore Booknotes: Jean Strouse, "Morgan: American Financier"
Encore Booknotes: "Nixon Off The Record"
Monica Crowley

Last aired: November 24, 2012

Encore Booknotes: "Nixon Off The Record"
Encore Booknotes: Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
Chris Wallace

Last aired: November 17, 2012

Encore Booknotes: Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
"Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race"
Arthur Grace

Last aired: November 3, 2012

"Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race"
Encore Booknotes: "Buddha's Child: My Fight to Save Vietnam"
Nguyen Cao Ky

Last aired: September 29, 2012

Encore Booknotes: "Buddha's Child: My Fight to Save Vietnam"
Encore Booknotes: Jimmy Breslin, "Damon Runyon: A Life"
Jimmy Breslin

Last aired: August 18, 2012

Encore Booknotes: Jimmy Breslin, "Damon Runyon: A Life"
Encore Booknotes: "Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children"
Dorie McCullough Lawson

Last aired: August 4, 2012

Encore Booknotes: "Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children"

Book TV Schedule

Highlights

Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Morris Fiorina, "Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America"
Morris Fiorina

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 17 min.
Book TV in London: Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 6pm (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
Book TV in London: Robert McCrum
Robert McCrum

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 29 min.
The National Security Agency Before and After 9/11
Multiple Authors

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
2013 Book Expo America: Interview with Scott Turow, President of the Authors Guild
Scott Turow

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 12pm (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Book and Author Breakfast
Helen Fielding; Diana Gabaldon; John Lewis; Chris Matthews

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 12:15pm (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Fall Book Preview with Ishmael Beah, "Radiance of Tomorrow"
Ishmael Beah

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 1pm (ET)
Approx. 15 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Panel - "Self-Publishing: Disruptor or Defender of the Book Business?"
Angela James; Christopher Kenneally; James McQuivey; Keith Ogorek

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 1:15pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Fall Book Preview with Wendy Lower, "Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields"
Wendy Lower

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 2:15pm (ET)
Approx. 18 min.
Book TV Interview: Conrad Black, "Flight of the Eagle"
Conrad Black

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"Told You So: The Big Book of Weekly Columns"
Ralph Nader

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 7:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization"
Mary Eberstadt

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Thomas Sowell, "Intellectuals and Race"
Thomas Sowell

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
"Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield"
Jeremy Scahill

Next air time: Saturday, June 22nd, at 11:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
"Immigration Stories"
Various Authors

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't"
Robert Kaiser

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 41 min.
"A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg"
Jeff Shaara

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 4:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"When Armies Divide: The Security of Nuclear Arsenals During Revolts, Coups, and Civil Wars"
Brian Michael Jenkins

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 2 hr. 34 min.
"Chinese Girl in the Ghetto"
Ying Ma

Next air time: Sunday, June 23rd, at 10:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.

Also Airing...

Saturday, June 22nd

8am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973"
Kathleen Frydl
9am (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"And the Mountains Echoed"
Khaled Hosseini
10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
The National Security Agency Before and After 9/11
Multiple Authors
12:15pm (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Book and Author Breakfast
Helen Fielding; Diana Gabaldon; John Lewis; Chris Matthews
1:15pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Panel - "Self-Publishing: Disruptor or Defender of the Book Business?"
Angela James; Christopher Kenneally; James McQuivey; Keith Ogorek
7pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
Book TV Interview: Conrad Black, "Flight of the Eagle"
Conrad Black
7:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 8 min.
"Told You So: The Big Book of Weekly Columns"
Ralph Nader
9pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization"
Mary Eberstadt
11:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
"Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield"
Jeremy Scahill

Sunday, June 23rd

12:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
"Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream"
Deepak Chopra; Sanjiv Chopra
2am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
Book TV in London: Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong
3:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum"
Temple Grandin
5am (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution"
Nathaniel Philbrick
6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
"Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal"
Michael D'Antonio
8:15am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"Hammarskjold: A Life"
Roger Lipsey
10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"Immigration Stories"
Various Authors
4:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg"
Jeff Shaara
6pm (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
Book TV in London: Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin
6:30pm (ET)
Approx. 29 min.
Book TV in London: Robert McCrum
Robert McCrum
10pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
Book TV Interview: Conrad Black, "Flight of the Eagle"
Conrad Black
10:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"Chinese Girl in the Ghetto"
Ying Ma

Monday, June 24th

2am (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
Book TV in London: Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin
2:30am (ET)
Approx. 29 min.
Book TV in London: Robert McCrum
Robert McCrum
4am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization"
Mary Eberstadt

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.   

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.