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, November 1
8 a.m. Aaron Mahnke, author of Exhumed: Unearthing the History of the American Vampire (Running Press Adult, $30, 9798894141817), at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C. (Re-airs Sunday at 8 p.m.)
9 a.m. Sam Roberts, author of Are They Dead Yet?: The Art of the Obit (Bloomsbury, $29, 9781639733651). (Re-airs Sunday at 9 p.m.)
12 to 7 p.m. Coverage of the 2026 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tenn. Highlights include:
- 12 p.m. Lamar Alexander, author of The Education of a Senator: From JFK to Trump.
- 12:50 p.m. Radley Balko, author of Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces.
- 1:30 p.m. Jim Emison, author of Murder on the Hatchie: The NAACP's First Martyr.
- 2:22 p.m. W. Jason Miller, author of Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood: Nina Simone, Langston Hughes, and the Birth of Black Power.
- 2:38 p.m. Lindsay Owens, author of Gouged: The End of a Fair Price--and What That Means for Your Wallet.
- 3:26 p.m. Emily Yellin, author of Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love.
- 4 p.m. Colin Asher, author of The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music.
- 4:53 p.m. Alex Wright, author of Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper.
- 5:23 p.m. Varina Buntin Willse, author of Beneath and Between: And Other Overlooked Words That Illuminate God.
- 6:15 p.m. Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.