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 8
9 a.m. Martha Raddatz, author of The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose (Avid Reader Press, $32, 9781668093801).
10 a.m. Aaron Burns, co-author of Finding Wonderful: Hopeful Lessons from Jimmy Stewart and It's a Wonderful Life (Running Press Adult, $22, 9798894144115).
1 to 7 p.m. Coverage of the 2026 Printers Row Lit Fest, which took place in Chicago in September. Highlights include:
- 1 p.m. John West, author of The Internet Will Die, and So Will You: On Learning to Live in Our Digital Age.
- 1:41 p.m. Eve L. Ewing, author of Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism; and Daisy Hernandez, author of Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth.
- 2:25 p.m. Geoff Bennett, author of Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to '90s Sitcoms.
- 3:03 p.m. Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent.
- 3:44 p.m. Reshonda Landfair, author of Who's Watching Shorty?: Reclaiming Myself from the Shame of R. Kelly's Abuse; and Brooke Nevils, author of Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe.
- 4:28 p.m. Morgan Campbell, author of My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us; and Ed Taylor, author of The Power of the River.
- 5:13 p.m. Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.
- 5:53 p.m. David Ost, author of Red Pill Politics: Demystifying Today's Far Right; and Heather Hendershot, author of When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America.
8 p.m. Trace Gallagher, author of Turns Out They Were Right All Along: Life Lessons I Learned... Eventually (Harper, $32.99, 9780063568839).