A retransmission of live coverage by Book TV from the 2010 Texas Book Festival on Saturday, October 16th (11am-6pm ET). The schedule was:


11:00am - Noon ET
Back to Life: Humanizing Medical Mysteries

Molly Caldwell Crosby, Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

Rebecca Skloot, [The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks[



12:15 - 1:00pm ET
Eugene Robinson

Eugene Robinson, Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America




1:15-2:15pm ET
Age of Titans Panel

H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

T.J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

James McGrath Morris, ]Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power]



2:30 - 3:30pm ET
¡Poder!: Mexican American Civil Rights Struggles in Texas

David Montejano, Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981

Cynthia Orozco, No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

Emilio Zamora, Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas



3:45 - 4:45pm ET
Michele Norris in Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson

Michele Norris, The Grace of Silence: A Memoir

Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration



5:00 - 6:00pm ET
Witness to an Execution: Capital Punishment in America

Thomas Cahill, A Saint on Death Row: How a Forgotten Child Became a Man and Changed a World

David R. Dow, The Autobiography of an Execution


Robert K. Elder, Last Words of the Executed

Various taped programs were shown during intermissions.