Book TV Schedule: April 19th - 21st

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: April 19-21
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 10 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM,
Monday 12 AM ET
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll is the author of Ghost Wars which looks at Osama bin Laden's time in Afghanistan since the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in the early 1980s. His latest book, The Bin Ladens, is a history of the bin Laden family and its rise to prominence in Saudi Arabia. Mr. Coll discusses his new book with Michael Scheuer, former head of the bin Laden unit at the CIA.


Weekend Highlights
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Adam Bradley, 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Discussion of Ralph Ellison's Manuscripts for his Second Novel
From the 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, Virginia, a discussion by Adam Bradley on the unpublished second novel by Ralph Ellison. This event took place at the Central Jefferson-Madison Library.
(Saturday 9:30 AM, Sunday 12:30 AM ET)

Paul Alkebulan, Wesley Hogan, Patrick McGilligan, 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - African American Revolutionaries Panel
From the 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, Virginia, a panel discussion on African American revolutionaries. This event features Paul Alkebulan, Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party; Wesley Hogan, Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America; and Patrick McGilligan, The Great and Only Oscar Micheaux: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker. This event took place at the Central Jefferson-Madison Regional Library.
(Saturday 2:30 PM, Sunday 4:30 AM ET)

Jeremy Bailey, Alan Pell Crawford, Jon Kukla, 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Thomas Jefferson Panel
From the 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a panel discussion on Thomas Jefferson featuring Jon Kukla, Mr. Jefferson's Women; Jeremy Bailey, Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power; and Alan Pell Crawford, Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson. This event took place at the University of Virginia bookstore.
(Saturday 11 AM, Sunday 6 AM ET)



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Program times are approximate. All times are Eastern Time (ET).

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Saturday, April 19, 2008

8:00 AM 1 hr, 35 min 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Self-Publishing Panel
Authors: Carolyn Bruce; Charles Bruce; Robert Fanney; Jeff Winner

9:30 AM 1 hr, 12 min History
2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Discussion of Ralph Ellison's Manuscripts for his Second Novel
Author: Adam Bradley

10:40 AM 10 min 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Jonah Lehrer, "Proust Was a Neuroscientist"
Author: Jonah Lehrer

11:00 AM 1 hr, 2 min History
2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Thomas Jefferson Panel
Authors: Jeremy Bailey; Alan Pell Crawford; Jon Kukla

12:00 PM 1 hr, 11 min History
2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Civil War Battles Panel
Authors: John Baldwin; Jack Hurst; Marc Leepson

1:10 PM 18 min 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Angela "Silver Star" Daniel and Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow, "The True Story of Pocahontas"
Authors: Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow; Angela "Silver Star" Daniel

1:30 PM 47 min History
2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Civil War Analyses Panel
Authors: Burrus Carnahan; Aaron Sheehan-Dean; Christian Spielvogel

2:15 PM 13 min 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Risa Goluboff, "The Lost Promise of Civil Rights"
Author: Risa Goluboff

2:30 PM 1 hr, 4 min History
2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - African American Revolutionaries Panel
Authors: Paul Alkebulan; Wesley Hogan; Patrick McGilligan

3:30 PM 26 min 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Linwood Holton, "Opportunity Time: A Memoir"
Author: Linwood Holton

4:00 PM 1 hr, 6 min History
2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Justice and Diplomacy Following World War II Panel
Authors: Norbert Ehrenfreund; Steven Harper; Melvyn Leffler

5:05 PM 8 min 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Tim Wendel, "Far From Home: Latino Baseball Players in America"
Author: Tim Wendel

5:15 PM 37 min Politics
FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics
Authors: Neal Boortz; Rep. John Linder

5:50 PM 7 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Janet Francendese
Author: Janet Francendese

6:00 PM 57 min Encore Booknotes: Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Author: Stephen Greenblatt

7:00 PM 1 hr, 4 min Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
Author: David Rothkopf

8:00 PM 9 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Ivan R. Dee
Author: Ivan R. Dee

8:15 PM 1 hr, 9 min Politics
In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate
Authors: Ed Gray; L. Patrick Gray III

9:20 PM 5 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: David Patterson
Author: David Patterson

9:30 PM 30 min Public Lives
The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News
Author: Roger Mudd

10:00 PM 56 min After Words: Steve Coll, "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century" interviewed by Michael Scheuer

10:55 PM 4 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Elizabeth Sherburn Demers
Author: Elizabeth Sherburn Demers

11:00 PM 1 hr, 35 min 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Self-Publishing Panel
Authors: Carolyn Bruce; Charles Bruce; Robert Fanney; Jeff Winner


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Sunday, April 20, 2008

12:30 AM 1 hr, 12 min History
2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Discussion of Ralph Ellison's Manuscripts for his Second Novel
Author: Adam Bradley

1:40 AM 15 min 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - A.J. Jacobs, "The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible"
Author: A.J. Jacobs

2:00 AM 1 hr, 11 min History
2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Civil War Battles Panel
Authors: John Baldwin; Jack Hurst; Marc Leepson

3:10 AM 17 min 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Sear Carr, "The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm"
Author: Sean Carr

3:30 AM 47 min History
2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Civil War Analyses Panel
Authors: Burrus Carnahan; Aaron Sheehan-Dean; Christian Spielvogel

4:15 AM 9 min 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Michael Hamilton Morgan, "Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists"
Author: Michael Hamilton Morgan

4:25 AM 4 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Charles Rankin
Author: Charles Rankin

4:30 AM 1 hr, 4 min History
2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - African American Revolutionaries Panel
Authors: Paul Alkebulan; Wesley Hogan; Patrick McGilligan

5:30 AM 17 min 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Sear Carr, "The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm"
Author: Sean Carr

5:45 AM 7 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Eric Foner
Author: Eric Foner

6:00 AM 1 hr, 2 min History
2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Thomas Jefferson Panel
Authors: Jeremy Bailey; Alan Pell Crawford; Jon Kukla

7:00 AM 1 hr, 6 min History
2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Justice and Diplomacy Following World War II Panel
Authors: Norbert Ehrenfreund; Steven Harper; Melvyn Leffler

8:00 AM 1 hr, 6 min The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
Author: Aaron David Miller

9:00 AM 58 min Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (Or Almost All) of It Back
Author: Frank Schaeffer

10:00 AM 43 min Politics
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
Author: Mark Steyn

10:45 AM 24 min Mark Steyn Call-In - LIVE
Author: Mark Steyn

11:15 AM 35 min History
Dear First Lady: Letters to the White House
Author: Dwight Young and Margaret Johnson

12:00 PM 57 min After Words: Roy Gutman, "How We Missed the Story" interviewed by Moisés Naím

1:00 PM 1 hr, 30 min Politics
Book Party for Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States
Author: Deal Hudson

2:30 PM 58 min Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (Or Almost All) of It Back
Author: Frank Schaeffer

3:30 PM 1 hr, 9 min Politics
In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate
Authors: Ed Gray; L. Patrick Gray III

4:45 PM 1 hr, 13 min EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists Is Transforming the World
Author: Mark Skousen

6:00 PM 56 min After Words: Steve Coll, "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century" interviewed by Michael Scheuer

7:00 PM 35 min History
Dear First Lady: Letters to the White House
Author: Dwight Young and Margaret Johnson

7:30 PM 8 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Robert Sloan
Author: Robert Sloan

7:45 PM 1 hr, 9 min Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe

9:00 PM 56 min After Words: Steve Coll, "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century" interviewed by Michael Scheuer

10:00 PM 1 hr, 6 min The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
Author: Aaron David Miller

11:05 PM 7 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Janet Francendese
Author: Janet Francendese

11:15 PM 50 min History
Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress
Author: Joseph Wheelan


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Monday, April 21, 2008

12:00 AM 56 min After Words: Steve Coll, "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century" interviewed by Michael Scheuer

1:00 AM 1 hr, 9 min Politics
In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate
Authors: Ed Gray; L. Patrick Gray III

2:15 AM 45 min I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me
Author: Trevor Paglen

3:00 AM 56 min After Words: Steve Coll, "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century" interviewed by Michael Scheuer

4:00 AM 1 hr, 38 min Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
Author: Samantha Power

5:35 AM 6 min 2008 CPAC: Mary Beth Brown, "Condi: The Life of a Steel Magnolia"
Author: Mary Beth Brown

5:45 AM 1 hr, 4 min Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
Author: David Rothkopf

6:45 AM 9 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Ivan R. Dee
Author: Ivan R. Dee

7:00 AM 58 min Politics
Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times
Author: Willie Brown


http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx

[Bozita]

1. Thanks, Viva.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. Hi Boz!

:hi:

[Kurovski]

3. K&R.

Greetings, all. :hi:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. Darling!

[Mabus]

11. I've still got that shiny quarter

burning a hole in my pocketses.

[Kurovski]

12. ...and I'm shinin' up my Shim-Sham Shimmy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zpkkjm4Nt4

[Mabus]

13. Do you bring your own music?

And am I going to have to spend half the time pointing at your feet and dancing too?

Just to be on the safe side, I've alread started practicing.

[Kurovski]

15. I am the music!

Toss a whole lotta shimmy in it. It's the best part! :-)

[Mabus]

17. So, I should make something with lots of beans it?

so you can toot your own horn?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

4. Kick!!

:hi: Viva :hug: :D

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. ...

Hi B. :hug:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

9. One good ROFL deserves another

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. another!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

14. Volley... return. :)

[EFerrari]

6. K&R

[Hidden Stillness]

7. "Virginia Festival of the Book: Self-Publishing"

This was a panel of authors who had published and promoted their own books, had real sales, and were now giving advice to an audience made up of mainly people who also wanted to be published writers. There was a moderator who also promoted self-publishers, and all talked about their experiences.

They started off with some of the standard, but always good, advice: sometimes, the worst place to try to sell a book is in a bookstore, because your unheard-of book will sit on the shelves with all the best-sellers, etc., and probably never even be picked up; they talked about their uniformly bad experiences with book/agent contracts--they signed them expecting things to start rolling, and nothing was done at all. Eventually, they took their contracts back and published the books themselves, as nothing was ever going to be done. They talked a little about the kinds of contracts you get with already-extant publishers, and how you give up almost all profits, rights, and they do not promote it anyway as you do not have an audience yet, so you may as well do the whole thing yourself, and get the benefit. People do not realize how worthless it is to even try to have contact with publishers or agents, especially the closed-down way the industry is now, and this is why self-publishing (NOT "vanity publishing," which is another money-drain with no distribution) has become so popular.

Part of the discussion was on the need for good editing, and feedback from people you trust, on your writing. You have to do all the promotion, sales, and find what and where your (and your book's) audience is. Much of the panel's talk centered on that. One couple wrote a series of books on Scotland's Robert the Bruce, and talked about going to Scottish fairs and festivals, meeting people, making contacts, selling books, etc., and another, who had written a sci-fi book, gave talks at schools to students. They mentioned that the worst place you can get publicity for your book, is on the "Books" page of newspapers or magazines, because people read those least of all. Far better is the "Entertainment" section of a paper, or a general interest story, or promotion of an upcoming speech of yours, etc.

There were some funny comments--although probably not to anyone who had to suffer it--on having a garage-ful of books sitting there, and you have sold your 50 or so to all family and friends that you have ever had, and then what? This also is why big publishers are useless: you will have to do all the work of promotion anyway, so why give all the bulk of the profits to them, when they will do nothing for you? There were comments on the difference between a distributor and a wholesaler, between a printer and a publisher. There was some discussion on the costs of ordering a run of printed books, the distinction between offset print (I think it was), and new digital, online printers, but both were thousands of dollars for a run of at least 500 copies I think it was; and they will generally not do smaller runs. It does not really begin to pay off unless you can sell a few thousand copies.

Part of the discussion was on having a website that will have contact and ordering information, excerpts, and anything else interesting that will become a promotional venue for the book. They all discussed their websites, how they hired people to design it or the book's cover, etc.

They did not spend nearly enough time on the actual, nuts-and-bolts explanations of how, exactly, you construct a manuscript that will then be self-published, or the differences between going to a printer, or these online websites that print up from a computer program. There was a lot of interesting talk about their experiences promoting and selling their books, and the kinds of events they went to to sell them, showing you what they said earlier, that there are all kinds of venues for selling books, and that the worst place for a new author is a bookstore, where your book will be ignored. You have to have a plan, and know where to go that would be appropriate as an audience for your material. One person from the audience here, went to a forum on a non-fiction topic, and had books available for sale there. Self-publishing is an interesting topic, and the likely only way that most people, no matter how good their books, will ever be published.

Are there any self-published writers on DU? How did it go? This is an interesting topic.

[Joanne98]

16. How many times is c-span going to play the Fair Tax anyway? geeeez

[EFerrari]

18. STEPHEN GREENBLATT, you are SO BUSTED!

He's talking to Brian about pleasure and family and about culture when the whole time I was at Berkeley, he denounced all that stuff for his own private pleasureless, isolate, free standing literary objects.

(He used to mock me, my teachers and my mentor for our interest in pleasure, family and culture as often as possible and some morans went for it.)

LOL!

:rofl:

I lived to see this day!

:woohoo:

eta: Greenblatt was, like me and my buddies, a Shakespearean scholar and a Rennaisance guy. And, Ooooh man, we used to have to fight for every inch in prof. journals that didn't agree with him. He's backtracked completely. Sweet. :evilgrin:

[Bozita]

19. The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News -- Roger Mudd

This is my "Watch 'n Weep" special for the week.

The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News

Author: Roger Mudd

Upcoming Schedule
Saturday, April 19, at 9:30 PM

About the Program
Kate and Jim Lehrer hosted a book party at their Washington, DC home for journalist and former CBS News correspondent Roger Mudd. Attending the party were many current and former CBS employees including Bernard and Marvin Kalb, Bob Schieffer, Rita Braver, Bill Plante and Bruce Morton.

About the Author
From 1961 to 1992 Roger Mudd was a Washington correspondent for CBS News, NBC News and the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour on PBS. He was a documentary host and correspondent for The History Channel from 1995 until he retired in 2004. He won the Peabody award for "The Selling of the Pentagon" in 1970 and for "Teddy" in 1979. Roger Mudd joined the US Army in 1945 and served with the 2nd Armored Division. He graduated from Washington & Lee University in 1950 and from the University of North Carolina in 1953 with a degree in history.

[Bozita]

20. Two minutes to air for Roger Mudd. Steve Coll follows at 10pm ET

Coll was on with Tavis Smiley last night. It was a very informative 12 minutes. Looking forward to tonight's appearance.

[Bozita]

21. It IS acceptable to view this event with cocktail in hand.

Alan fucking Greenspan?

WTF?

[Bozita]

22. The bar closes in one minute. NO DRINKING during Steve Coll's presentation.

Comcast is watching you.

From the Book TV website:
After Words: Steve Coll, "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century" interviewed by Michael Scheuer

Upcoming Schedule
Saturday, April 19, at 10:00 PM
Sunday, April 20, at 6:00 PM
Sunday, April 20, at 9:00 PM
Monday, April 21, at 12:00 AM
Monday, April 21, at 3:00 AM
Sunday, April 27, at 12:00 PM

About the Program
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll is the author of "Ghost Wars" which looks at Osama bin Laden's time in Afghanistan since the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in the early 1980s. His latest book, "The Bin Ladens," is a history of the bin Laden family and its rise to prominence in Saudi Arabia. Mr. Coll discusses his new book with Michael Scheuer, former head of the bin Laden unit at the CIA.

About the Author
Steve Coll, formerly a journalist and managing editor with the Washington Post, is currently the president of the New America Foundation and a staff writer for The New Yorker. Mr. Coll's book, "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001," was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Michael Scheuer headed up the bin Laden unit at the CIA from 1996 to 1999 and was a special adviser to the chief of the unit from 2001 to 2004. He is the author of "Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror" and, most recently, "Marching Towards Hell: America and Islam After Iraq."

[Bozita]

23. Comcast finally makes it possible to record individual Book-TV segments.

If last week's Comcast cable guide were listing today's programming, there would be an eight hour block listed simply as "Virginia Book Festival."

The Comcast upgrade now shows the Book-TV schedule as listed in the OP. I can now use the DVR to record a five minute segment at 4am.

Couldn't do that last week.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

24. You scored!

:)

[EFerrari]

25. Kick

[Kurovski]

26. Kick. (nt)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

27. What him say widdout da nt

Dr. K. :hi: :pals: :loveya: :hug:

[Kurovski]

28. Hi Salm!

:hi: :hug: