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Texas Book Festival Continues Live on Book TV

Austin, Texas
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Book TV is LIVE this weekend at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas.  We will be covering several author talks and panel discussions.  Visit BookTV.org for a complete schedule 

Today's highlights include Robert Morgan on his book “Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion," plus a panel discussion on Mexican Drug Cartels with Ioan Grillo, author of “El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency” and Sylvia Longmire, who wrote the book “Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico’s Drug Wars.”

Later today, panel discussions on the Art of Nonfiction and the Arab Spring; plus Adam Winkler talks about “Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America.”

Updated: Monday, October 24, 2011 at 12:13pm (ET)

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