Book TV Schedule

• Sunday

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  5:15PM ESTA Torch Kept LitJames Rosen and Christopher Buckley talk about William F. Buckley Jr.'s…
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  6:15PM ESTKingdom of the UnjustMedea Benjamin looks at the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi…
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  7:28PM ESTInterview with Cyd ZeiglerCyd Zeigler, co-founder of online magazine Outsports, reports on LGBTQ…
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  7:45PM ESTOpen to DebateHeather Hendershot, film and media professor at MIT, looks at William F. Buckley’s…
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  9:00PM ESTAfter Words with Ellen SilbergeldJohns Hopkins professor Ellen Silbergeld looks at new farming methods and…
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  10:00PM ESTThe White House ChandeliersBookTV interviews Stewart Stevens, a former chandelier and window cleaner…
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  10:45PM ESTChurchill's TrialHillsdale College president Larry Arnn talks about his book, Churchill’s Trial:…
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  11:15PM ESTLet Me Tell You About Jasper...Fox News host and former Bush administration official Dana Perino…

• Monday

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  12:00AM ESTAfter Words with Ellen SilbergeldJohns Hopkins professor Ellen Silbergeld looks at new farming methods and…
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  1:00AM ESTSettle for MoreFox News Anchor Megyn Kelly discusses her life and career as a journalist.…
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  2:00AM ESTA Torch Kept LitJames Rosen and Christopher Buckley talk about William F. Buckley Jr.'s…
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  3:00AM ESTAfter Words with Ellen SilbergeldJohns Hopkins professor Ellen Silbergeld looks at new farming methods and…
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  4:00AM ESTThe Underground RailroadColson Whitehead discusses his novel that re-imagines the Underground…
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  5:00AM ESTIn Depth on Pearl HarborAuthors Steve Twomey, Eri Hotta, and Craig Nelson discuss the December…
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  8:30AM ESTThe Permission SocietyTimothy Sandefur examines the difference between rights and privileges.
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  10:00AM ESTJFK and the Reagan RevolutionCNBC’s Lawrence Kudlow and Brian Domitrovic, senior associate at the…
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  11:00AM ESTChaos MonkeysAntonio Garcia Martinez discusses his book, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and…
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  12:00PM ESTBlood at the Root and Hanging BridgePatrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America and…
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  1:00PM ESTAl CaponeNational Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair recalls the life of…
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  2:00PM ESTThe Spy Who Couldn't SpellYudhijit Bhattacharjee, former staff writer for Science, talks about Brian Regan,…
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  3:00PM ESTBorn a CrimeDaily Show host Trevor Noah recalls his upbringing in apartheid-era South…
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  4:00PM ESTOpen to DebateHeather Hendershot, film and media professor at MIT, looks at William F. Buckley’s…
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  5:15PM ESTOur RevolutionSenator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) shares his experiences from the Democratic…
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  6:45PM ESTThe General vs. the PresidentHistorian H.W. Brands examines the contentious relationship between…
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  8:30PM ESTWelcome to the UniverseThree leading astrophysicists, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss,…
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  10:30PM ESTOpen to DebateHeather Hendershot, film and media professor at MIT, looks at William F. Buckley’s…
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  11:45PM ESTThe New Better OffJournalist Courtney Martin examines what the term “better off” means to…

• Tuesday

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  1:00AM ESTTrue BelieverFormer news correspondent Kati Marton remembers the life of Noel Field, an…
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  2:00AM ESTJFK and the Reagan RevolutionCNBC’s Lawrence Kudlow and Brian Domitrovic, senior associate at the…
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  3:00AM ESTChaos MonkeysAntonio Garcia Martinez discusses his book, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and…
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  4:00AM ESTBlood at the Root and Hanging BridgePatrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America and…
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  5:00AM ESTAl CaponeNational Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair recalls the life of…
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  6:00AM ESTThe Spy Who Couldn't SpellYudhijit Bhattacharjee, former staff writer for Science, talks about Brian Regan,…
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  6:54AM ESTWater in Plain SightJournalist Judith Schwartz examines the world’s water supply and efforts…
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  7:00AM ESTBorn a CrimeDaily Show host Trevor Noah recalls his upbringing in apartheid-era South…
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  8:02PM ESTIn a Different KeyABC News journalists John Donvan and Caren Zucker provide a history of…
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  8:49PM ESTThe Firebrand and the First LadyPatricia Bell-Scott, professor emerita of Women’s Studies at the…
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  9:58PM ESTAlmightyWashington Post reporter Dan Zak provides a history of America’s nuclear…
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  11:15PM ESTHero of the EmpireFrom the 16th annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., Candice…

• Wednesday

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  8:00PM ESTBlood at the RootPatrick Phillips recalls the murder of a young girl in Forsyth County,…
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  9:10PM ESTPanel Discussion on Viruses and MicrobesFrom the 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival, authors talk about viruses and…
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  10:11PM ESTHidden FiguresMargot Lee Shetterly recalls a group of African-American women, who,…
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  11:16PM ESTAfter Words with Gary YoungeJournalist Gary Younge looks at gun deaths in America over a 24-hour…

• Thursday

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  8:00PM ESTValiant AmbitionNational Book Award-winner Nathaniel Philbrick examines the relationship…
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  9:06PM ESTGruntMary Roach talks about the science that is used to improve the effectiveness and…
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  9:51PM ESTChaos MonkeysAntonio Garcia Martinez discusses his book, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and…
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  10:49PM ESTAfter Words with Eric FairEric Fair talks about his experiences serving as an interrogator at Abu…

• Friday

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  8:00PM ESTTruevineBeth Macy discusses her book, Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a…
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  8:51PM ESTThe GeneSiddhartha Mukherjee details the history of genetic code and how it will…
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  9:56PM ESTAfter Words with Michael HaydenFormer CIA Director Michael Hayden discusses his book Playing to the Edge:…
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  10:55PM ESTWhite RageProfessor Carol Anderson discusses when in history black progress has been met by what…

• Saturday

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  9:00AM ESTInterview with Steven JohnsonScience and technology author Steven Johnson argues that throughout…
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  9:45AM ESTForty AutumnsFormer U.S. Army intelligence officer Nina Willner recalls her mother’s…
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  10:30AM ESTPlaying Through the WhistleS.L. Price, senior writer at Sports Illustrated, looks at the death of the…
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  11:45AM ESTThe Polygamist KingJohn Miller talks about his book, The Polygamist King: A True Story of…
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  12:00PM ESTTroubled RefugeHistorian Chandra Manning recalls the Union Army’s slave-refugee camps, which,…
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  1:00PM ESTJames BaldwinJules Farber leads a discussion on James Baldwin’s life and writing career…
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  2:00PM ESTOpen Phones with Andrew BacevichAndrew Bacevich talked about his book, America’s War for the Greater…
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  2:45PM EST2016 American Book AwardsThe Before Columbus Foundation presents the annual American Book Awards that recognize…
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  5:15PM ESTAndy Warhol Was a HoarderClaudia Kalb, former senior writer for Newsweek, talks about the evolution of…
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  6:20PM ESTOpen Phones with Dana PerinoFox News host and former Bush administration official Dana Perino…
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  7:00PM ESTIn the DarkroomPulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Susan Faludi remembers her…
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  7:45PM ESTHero of the EmpireFrom the 16th annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., Candice…
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  8:30PM ESTCity of DreamsTyler Anbinder, history professor at George Washington University, recalls…
• 10:00PM ESTAfter Words with Joann LublinWall Street Journal editor Joann Lublin looks at over 50 top women leaders…
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  11:00PM ESTUnprecedentedCNN contributors and reporters discuss journalist Thomas Lake’s book, Unprecedented. They…

• Sunday

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  12:00AM ESTCampus PoliticsProfessor Jonathan Zimmerman talks about increasing pressure to curtail…
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  1:30AM ESTAtlas ObscuraElla Morton looks at some of the most peculiar and intriguing places in the world in…
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  2:15AM ESTImperfect UnionChuck Raasch, chief Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post…
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  3:30AM ESTThe Bureaucrat KingsProfessor Paul Moreno talks about his book, The Bureaucrat Kings: The Origins…
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  3:45AM ESTA House of My OwnSandra Cisneros, author of A House of My Own, delivers a talk after…
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  5:15AM ESTEleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3John Jay College history professor Blanche Wiesen Cook completes her three…
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  6:30AM ESTSettle for MoreFox News Anchor Megyn Kelly discusses her life and career as a journalist.…
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  7:30AM ESTMen Without WorkNicholas Eberstadt argues that the collapse of work among American men…
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  8:30AM ESTThe Millionaire and the BardAndrea Mays discusses Henry Folger’s pursuit of William Shakespeare’s…
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  9:30AM ESTThe Electrifying Fall of Rainbow CityMargaret Creighton, history professor at Bates College, recalls the…
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  10:15AM ESTBest. State. Ever.Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry reflects on the social and…
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  11:00AM ESTAfter Words with Ellen SilbergeldJohns Hopkins professor Ellen Silbergeld looks at new farming methods and…
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  12:00PM ESTLiveIn Depth on the Obama PresidencyAuthors April Ryan, Eddie Glaude, and David Maraniss talk about the…
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  3:00PM ESTCampus PoliticsProfessor Jonathan Zimmerman talks about increasing pressure to curtail…
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  4:30PM ESTUnprecedentedCNN contributors and reporters discuss journalist Thomas Lake’s book, Unprecedented. They…
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  5:30PM ESTAtlas ObscuraElla Morton looks at some of the most peculiar and intriguing places in the world in…
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  6:15PM ESTInterview with Steven JohnsonScience and technology author Steven Johnson argues that throughout…
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  7:00PM ESTTrue Faith and AllegianceFormer Attorney General Alberto Gonzales talks about his book, True Faith…
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  7:45PM ESTThe Bureaucrat KingsProfessor Paul Moreno talks about his book, The Bureaucrat Kings: The Origins…
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  8:00PM ESTTroubled RefugeHistorian Chandra Manning recalls the Union Army’s slave-refugee camps, which,…
• 9:00PM ESTAfter Words with Joann LublinWall Street Journal editor Joann Lublin looks at over 50 top women leaders…
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  10:00PM ESTPlaying Through the WhistleS.L. Price, senior writer at Sports Illustrated, looks at the death of the…
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  11:15PM ESTHero of the EmpireFrom the 16th annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., Candice…

• Monday

• 3:00AM ESTAfter Words with Joann LublinWall Street Journal editor Joann Lublin looks at over 50 top women leaders…
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  4:00AM EST2016 American Book AwardsThe Before Columbus Foundation presents the annual American Book Awards that recognize…
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  6:30AM ESTCampus PoliticsProfessor Jonathan Zimmerman talks about increasing pressure to curtail…