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.