Book TV is LIVE at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas this weekend and C-SPAN is covering several author talks and panel discussions. Complete coverage and a full schedule can be found on BookTV.org. Sunday's program begins at 12:00 pm (ET).
Saturday's highlights included authors Juan Williams on his book "Muzzled" and Sally Jacobs on “Obama’s Father” and a panel discussion on American Debt with H.W. Brands, author of “Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It” and David Graeber, who wrote “Debt: The First 5,000 Years.”
A group of authors discussed relations between India & Pakistan, including John Schmidt (“The Unraveling: Pakistan in the Age of Jihad,”) Siddhartha Deb (“The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India,”) and Steve Inskeep (“Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi”)
The day ended wish Alex Prud’homme on “The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the 21st Century” and Dana Priest on her book “Top Secret America.”