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.
Sunday, October 26
8 a.m. Kevin Sack, author of Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church (Crown, $35, 9781524761301). (Re-airs Sunday at 8:30 p.m.)
9:15 a.m. Sean Oliver and Ricardo Morales, Jr., authors of Monkey Morales: The True Story of a Mythic Cuban Exile, Assassin, CIA Operative, FBI Informant, Smuggler, and Dad (Post Hill Press, $22, 9798888458594). (Re-airs Sunday at 9:45 p.m.)
1 to 7 p.m. Coverage of the 2025 Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago, which took place in September. Highlights include:
- 1 p.m. Gioia Diliberto, author of Firebrands: The Untold Story of Four Women Who Made and Unmade Prohibition, and Dawn Tripp, author of Jackie: A Novel.
- 1:43 p.m. Bill Ayers, Keisa Reynolds, Anya Tanyavutti, and Maya Schenwar, co-authors of We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition (Haymarket Books, $19.95, 9798888902554).
- 2:28 p.m. Gloria Browne-Marshall, author of A Protest History of the United States, Cedric De Leon, author of Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity, and Elizabeth Todd-Breland, author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s.
- 3:14 p.m. Maureen Dowd, author of Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech.
- 4 p.m. Edda Fields-Black, author of Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.
- 5:25 p.m. Bill Adair, author of Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy, and Barbara McQuade, author of Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America.
- 6:12 p.m. Andrea Freeman, author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch.