Virginia Festival of the Book

VABook! Television Coverage

The quality of programming during VABook! attracts attention. Festival programs have been recorded by C-SPAN, the Jim Lehrer NewsHour, the Odyssey Channel, WVPT Public Television and the Japanese Broadcasting Company.

All this coverage has caused us to claim that our books are so good, TV watches us!

 

From VABook! 2003:

CSPAN2 BookTV: Dreams of War
Chris Hedges and Kate Hudgins.
Moderated by Roberta Culbertson
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/175618.html

CSPAN2 BookTV: Opening Campus Closets
Dan Woog, Shane L. Windmeyer, and Vernon A. Wall.
Moderated by Claire N. Kaplan.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/175618-2.html

CSPAN2 BookTV: Consuming Passions: Shopping and Brand Names
Alissa Quart and Ann Satterthwaite.
Moderated James Tolbert.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/175668-2.html

CSPAN2 BookTV: Free Speech During War
Robert M. O'Neil, Henry J.Abraham, Barbara Ann Perry, and Katherine McNamara.
Moderated by Joshua Wheeler.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/175669.html

CSPAN2 BookTV: The Story That Could Get Someone Killed, A Reporting Panel
Robin Kirk, Amy Waters Yarsinske, Woody Holton, and Charles Bowden
Moderated by Woody Holton
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/175668.html



From VABook! 2002:

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Genes to Jungles"
With Jennifer Ackerman, Patricia Thomas and Elizabeth Royte. Moderated by Andrew Wyndham.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169201-3.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Wireless and Freelance Revolutions"
With Daniel Pink, Steve Fainaru and James Murray. Moderated by Nancy Damon.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169201-6.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Life as We Write It"
With William Lee Miller, A’Lelia Bundles, Mary Lee Settle and Eric Seaborg. Moderated by Anne Dickey.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169383.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "America and Vietnam"
With Robert Mann, David Shreve and Kenneth Thompson.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169422-2.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Tales of World War II"
Patrick O’Donnell, Robert Smith and Elaine Pinkerton Coleman. Moderated by Andrew Wyndham.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169422-6.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Threats to Free Speech"
With Robert O’Neil, Marjorie Heins and Joshua Wheeler.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169200.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Unusual Nonfiction"
With Paul Aron, Jack Mingo, Erin Barrett and Robert Smith.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169200-2.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "All the World’s a Stage"
With Dennis Weaver.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169200-3.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "The State of Integrity in America"
With Charles Lewis and Jeremy Campell. Moderated by Dan Doernberg.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169201.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Faith’s Place in Government"
With Michael Novak.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169201-2.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Undersea Archaeology"
With Daniel Lenihan and David Lawrence. Moderated by John Blythe.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169201-5.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Robert’s Rules of Order"
With Mary Loose DeViney, Jean Mostrom, T. Page Johnson and Florence Nordone.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169422.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Folklife and Place"
With Daryl Dance, Kimberly Lau and John O’Brien. Moderated by Jon Lohman.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169422-3.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Men and Machines"
With Eric Seaborg, Evan Schwartz and Robert O’Connell.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169422-5.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "The Examined Life"
With Christopher Phillips, Carl Clark, Susan Tyler Hitchcock and Robert Sanabria.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/169774.html

 

 

From VABook! 2001:

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia"
With Maurine Beasley, Kenneth Thompson, Holly Shulman, Henry R Beasley and Carl Bon Tempo.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/164680.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Fighting for the Confederacy"
With Gary Gallagher.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/163528.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Parlor Politics"
With Catherine Allgor and David Mattern.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/163475.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "New Perspectives on the Civil War"
Thomas P. Lowry and Michael G. Mahon.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/163614.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: Editing the 'Truth' of Civil War History
William J. Miller
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/164218.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution"
With Ji-Li Jiang.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/163321.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Bioethics and the Human Genome"
With Jonathan Moreno, James Childress, Eric Meslin, Allen Buchanan, Wesley Smith and Doris Zallen.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/163476.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "African-American Biographers"
With Oliver Hill, Steven Holmes, A. Peter Bailey and Jonathan Stubbs. Moderated by Rick Turner.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/164187.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "Memoir: Larger Than Life"
With Charles Marsh, Lois Gould, Elizabeth Hodges and Richard Wertime. Moderated by Bella Stander.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/163585.html

C-SPAN2 Book TV: "World War II on the Page"
With J. Kemp McLaughlin, Kenneth Beyer and Joseph Mark
Scalia. Moderated by William A.
Paquette.
http://store.yahoo.com/c-spanstore/163460.html

PBS: Jim Lehrer NewsHour "The e-Book Revolution," with segments from VABook! 2001 and the first Independent e-Book Awards.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/ebooks/index.html

 

 

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