Friday, August 19, 2011

(Almost) 24 Hours of Book Festival Programming!

OK, so it may not be a FULL 24 hours, but 18 hours of Book Festival programming sounds almost as good, right?

The Gaithersburg TV channel (Comcast Channel 13, RCN Channel 13, Verizon FiOS Channel 25) will be airing video from both the 2010 and 2011 festivals starting this Saturday, August 20, at 6 a.m.

Saturday, August 20
  • 6am: David Hoffman, "The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy"
  • 8am: Helen Simonson, "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand"
  • 9am: John Feinstein, "Moment of Glory: The Year Underdogs Ruled Golf"
  • 10am: Alice McDermott, "Charming Billy" and "After This"
  • 11am: Christina Asquith, "Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq"
  • 2pm: Sarah Blake, "The Postmistress"
  • 3pm: Wes Moore, "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates"
  • 4pm: Eleanor Brown, author of "The Weird Sisters," in a conversation with Washington Post book editor Ron Charles
  • 5pm: Elizabeth Berg, "Once Upon a Time, There Was You"
  • 6pm: James Swanson, "Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse"
  • 8pm: Paula McLain, "The Paris Wife"
  • 9pm: Alex Berenson, "The Secret Soldier"
  • 10pm: Stephen Hunter, "Dead Zero"
Sunday, August 21
  • 1am: Matt Latimer, "Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor"
  • 2am: Matt Logelin, "Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love"
  • 3:15am: Justin Fox, "The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street"
  • 4am: Olga Grushin, "The Line"
  • 5am: Rachel Simmons, "Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls"
More information about Gaithersburg television.

GAITHERSBURG
BOOK
FESTIVAL

SATURDAY
MAY 21, 2011
10AM - 6PM


GAITHERSBURG
CITY HALL
GROUNDS

FREE
ADMISSION
AND PARKING

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