About the Program
Book TV will be LIVE at the 2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books over the April 21-22 weekend. We will be bring you LIVE event coverage and also give you a chance to talk to several of the authors attending the festival.
Schedule for Sunday, April 22nd
2pm ET: Interview/Call-in: Eric Alterman, “The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama”
2:45pm ET: Interview/Call-in: Lori Andrews, “I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy”
3:30pm ET: Panel – “Disposable Nation: Trash & Consequences”
Edward Humes, “Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash”
Kendra Pierre-Louis, “Green Washed: Why We Can’t Buy Our Way to a Green Planet”
Anna Sklar, “Brown Acres: An Intimate History of Los Angeles Sewers”
4:30pm ET: Interview/Call-in: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, "What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors"
5pm ET: Panel – “Surveillance & Secrets”
Lori Andrews, “I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did”
Annie Jacobsen, “Area 51”
Michael Shermer, “The Believing Brain”
6pm ET: Interview/Call-in: Nancy Cohen, “Delirium: How the Sexual Counterrevolution Is Polarizing America”
6:30pm ET: Panel – “The Port Huron Statement: 50 Years Later”
Tom Hayden, “The Long Sixties”
Abe Peck, “Uncovering the Sixties”
Robert Scheer, author and former editor of Ramparts magazine