Book TV airs on C-Span 2 this weekend from 8 a.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Monday and focuses on political and historical books as well as the book industry. The following are highlights for this coming weekend. For more information, go to Book TV's website.
Saturday, March 21
12 p.m. C-SPAN visits local authors and literary sites in San Antonio, Texas. (Re-airs Sunday at 10 a.m.)
12:45 p.m. An interview with Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books & Books in Coral Gables, Fla., about the impacts of coronavirus on bookstores. (Re-airs Sunday at 10:45 a.m.)
4 p.m. Serena Zabin, author of The Boston Massacre: A Family History (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780544911154). (Re-airs Sunday at 7 p.m.)
6 p.m. Alexis Coe, author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington (Viking, $27, 9780735224100), at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
7 p.m. Jonathan Horn, author of Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle (Scribner, $30, 9781501154232). (Re-airs Sunday at 11 p.m.)
8 p.m. Cyntoia Brown-Long, author of Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System (Atria, $26, 9781982141103). (Re-airs Monday at 2 a.m.)
9 p.m. David Kilcullen, author of The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West (Oxford University Press, $27.95, 9780190265687). (Re-airs Sunday at 2:15 p.m.)
10 p.m. Jennifer Steinhauer, author of The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress (Algonquin, $27.95, 9781616209995). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m. and Monday at 12 a.m. and 3 a.m.)
10:55 p.m. Coverage of the 2020 Audie Awards, given by the Audio Publishers Association to recognize "distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment." (Re-airs Sunday at 5:30 p.m.)
Sunday, March 22
12:30 a.m. Michael Strain, author of The American Dream Is Not Dead (Templeton Press, $12.95, 9781599475578). (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
1:30 a.m. Tim Bakken, author of The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military (Bloomsbury, $28, 9781632868985).
2:40 a.m. Joanne McNeil, author of Lurking: How a Person Became a User (MCD, $28, 9780374194338), at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.
9:55 p.m. Richard Frank, author of Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942 (Norton, $40, 9781324002109).
