Book Expo America, BookCon, Detroit Public TV Video




Date: Fri May, 29 2015 11:00 AM CDT — Sun May, 31 2015 3:00 PM CDT

Detroit Public TV will bring live inside the booksellers biggest show of the year, Book Expo America. Followed by BookCon–where storytelling and pop culture collide, May 29, 30 & 31, from NYC:



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Books, Reviews, Authors, Tweets





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Joel Klein, Amplify CEO, "Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools" (video)

`Lessons of Hope’: Charlie Rose (12/22): Video - Bloomberg:
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 On “Charlie Rose,” a conversation with Joel Klein. He is the CEO of Amplify. He previously served as chancellor of the New York City school system. He writes about his work in education in a new book. It is called "Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools." (Source: Bloomberg 12/22/2014)

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The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong


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 On “Charlie Rose,” a conversation with with Judith Rodin. She has been president of the Rockefeller Foundation since 2005. Her new book is called “The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong.” (Source: Bloomberg  12/23/2014)

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Author Steven Kotler, Hypofrontality, Consciousness, Flow (video)



The best-selling author Steven Kotler discusses hypofrontality -- literally the slowing of the brain's prefrontal cortex -- and how it allows one to enter an optimal state of consciousness, known as flow. As Kotler explains, flow refers to those moments of total absorption when we get so focused on the task at hand that everything else disappears. Published on Nov 6, 2014

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John Irving, How to Tell if You Are a Writer (video)



For John Irving, the need for a daily ration of solitude was his strongest "pre-writing" moment as a child. (April 23, 2012)

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Tony Robbins, Get to Know the Best-Selling Author (video)

Tony Robbins: Get to Know the Best-Selling Author: Video - Bloomberg:
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Entrepreneur, Author and Peak Performance Strategist Tony Robbins discusses the best piece of advice he's ever received and his favorite technology. He speaks with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox on "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg 11/14)

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Malcolm Gladwell: Amazon Has Turned on Us Writers (video)

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Studio 1.0 Host Emily Chang speaks with best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell about the ongoing dispute between Amazon and Hachette. (Source: Bloomberg 11/12)

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The End of Greatness, Aaron David Miller (video)

`The End of Greatness’: Charlie Rose (10/30): Video - Bloomberg:"
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On “Charlie Rose,” a conversation with Aaron David Miller. Between 1988 and 2003, he advised six secretaries of state on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. His new book is called "The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have - And Doesn’t Want - Another Great President." (Source: Bloomberg 10/30)

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Rendez-Vous with Art, Philippe de Montebello, Martin Gayford (video)

`Rendez-Vous with Art’: Charlie Rose (10/31): Video - Bloomberg:
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 On “Charlie Rose,” a conversation with with former Metropolitan Museum of Art director Philippe de Montebello and art critic Martin Gayford. Their new book is called “Rendez-Vous with Art.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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Miami Book Fair International LIVE

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Miami Book Fair International, Authors, Books, LIVE via CSPAN2

LIVE video Link: Miami Book Fair International via C-SPAN2

Book TV | BookTV is LIVE from the 31st annual Miami Book Fair International from Miami Dade College. Programming includes panel coverage and interviews and national viewer call-ins with authors.

 Miami Book Fair International official website: miamibookfair.com

2014 Miami Book Fair: Day One (22 Nov 2014) Saturday--all times are EST 
10:00 - 11:15a
John Dean, The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It
Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

11:15 - 11:30a
Interview with Gary Segura, Latino America: How America's Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation

11:30a - 12:45p
Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

12:45 - 1:20p
Viewer call-in with John Dean, The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It

1:25 - 2:00p
Viewer call-in with Norman Lear, Even This I Get to Experience

2:00 - 2:45p
Cornel West, Black Prophetic Fire

2:45 - 3:00p
Interview with Hector Tobar, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracles That Set Them Free

3:00 - 3:45p
Norman Lear, Even This I Get to Experience

3:45 - 4:15p
Viewer call-in with Kris Paronto & Mark Geist, 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi

4:20 - 5:15p
Viewer call-in with Cornel West, Black Prophetic Fire

5:15 - 6:00p
Judith Rodin, The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

6:00 - 6:30p
Interview with Chris Farrell, Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life

6:30 - 7:15p
Richard Dawkins, An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

2014 Miami Book Fair: Day Two (23 Nov 2014) Sunday
10:00 - 11:15a
Pamela Paul, By the Book: Writers on Literary Life from the New York Times Book Review with Walter Mosley, Francine Prose,
Nicholson Baker, and Ann Patchett

11:15 - 11:50a
Viewer call-in with Randall Kennedy, For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law

11:55a - 12:30p
Viewer call-in with David Rothkopf, National Insecurity: American Leadership in the Age of Fear

12:30 - 1:45p
Matt Bai, All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Bob Herbert, Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America

1:45 - 2:00p
Interview with Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

2:00 - 3:15p
Charles Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir
Richard Blanco, The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood

3:15 - 3:30p
Interview with Dana Goldstein, The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

3:30 - 4:45p
Panel on Books & E-Commerce
Oren Teicher, American Booksellers Association, CEO; Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age; Andrew Albanese, The Battle of $9.99: How Apple. Amazon, and the Big Six Publishers Changed the E-Book Business Overnight; Franklin Foer, editor, The National Review; and Christopher Kenneally, Copyright Clearance Center, Director of Author Relations

4:45 - 5:30p
Azar Nafasi, The Republic of Imagination
Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away


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Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker, 25th Anniversary (video)

`Liar’s Poker’ Anniversary Edition: Charlie Rose (10/30): Video - Bloomberg:
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On “Charlie Rose,” a conversation with Michael Lewis. He rose to fame 25 years ago with the publication of his first book “Liar’s Poker." A special anniversary edition is out now with a new afterword. (Source: Bloomberg 10/30)

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The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen

Book Discussion Peoples Republic Amnesia | Video | C-SPAN.org: "Louisa Lim spoke about her book, The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, in which she looks at the events of June 4, 1989, when soldiers from China’s People’s Liberation Army fired on unarmed protestors trying to block the army’s advance on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. She spoke in the History and Biography Pavilion of the 2014 National Book Festival, which was held August 30 by the Library of Congress at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. " (go to link above for video)

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James Patterson: How Writers Can Fight War With Amazon (Video)

James Patterson: How Writers Can Fight War With Amazon: Video - Bloomberg:
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 Prolific novelist James Patterson, whose publisher is Hachette Book Group, speaks with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker about Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos. (Bloomberg 10/13)

ref. writers, publishers, books, authors, Amazon

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Publishing Houses, Writer's Block? (video)

Publishing Houses: The Real Writer's Block?: Video - Bloomberg:
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 Jeremy Thomas, co-founder of Inkshares, discusses crowdfunding for book publishing with Pimm Fox on "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg 10/3)

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Ken Follett: Publishing Tech Options, Positive for Authors (video)

Publishing Tech Options Are Positive for Authors: Follett: Video - Bloomberg:
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 Author Ken Follett discusses changes to the publishing industry due to digital technology, how he sees tech innovation helping authors as he releases his latest book, “Edge of Eternity,” and offers his thoughts on the Scottish independence vote. He speaks on “Market Makers.” (Sept. 17--Bloomberg)

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, author of “My Fellow Prisoners," Charlie Rose Interview (video)




Charlie Rose | charlierose.com:  An hour with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, political activist, former chairman of Yukos oil and author of “My Fellow Prisoners.”
Air Date 10/1/2014

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September: Cuddle Up with Books and Book TV

Hillary Clinton Hard Choices | Video | C-SPAN.org: "Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked about her memoir, Hard Choices. She talked about about her decision making process, the perceptions of the U.S. around the globe, and some of the decisions she had to make as secretary of state. Steven Scully interviewed her at the Capital Hotel in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. "

Book Discussion Money | Video | C-SPAN.org: "Co-authors Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames talked about their book, Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy - and What We Can Do About It, in which they trace U.S. economic troubles back to the ending of the gold standard in the 1970s and discuss what a weak U.S. dollar means for the global economy. They called for a return to the gold standard to help stabilize the economy. The co-authors spoke at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC."

Book Discussion Good Spy | Video | C-SPAN.org: "From the 2014 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., Kai Bird speaks about his book, The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, in which he chronicles the life and career of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative Robert Ames."

Book Discussion Lost Khrushchev | Video | C-SPAN.org: "From the 2014 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., Nina Khrushcheva speaks about her book, The Lost Khrushchev, in which she chronicles the life of Leonid Khrushchev, her grandfather and oldest son of former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev."

Book Discussion Roosevelts Second Act | Video | C-SPAN.org: "From the 2014 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., Richard Moe speaks about his book, Roosevelt’s Second Act, in which he recounts President Franklin Roosevelt’s decision to seek an unprecedented third-term in office."

Book Discussion Bully Pulpit | Video | C-SPAN.org: "From the 2014 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., Doris Kearns Goodwin speaks about her book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism."

Book Discussion Writing Blue Highways | Video | C-SPAN.org: "William Least Heat-Moon talked about his book, Writing "Blue Highways": The Story of How a Book Happened, in which he discusses writing and publishing his 1982 book, Blue Highways, a depiction of the United States and its people as seen from the country’s backroads. He spoke at the Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia, Missouri."

Book Discussion Whatever Happened Metric System | Video | C-SPAN.org: "John Bemelmans Marciano talks about his book, Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet, in which he discusses the reasons behind the U.S. choosing not to adopt the metric system."

Book Discussion Last American Diplomat | Video | C-SPAN.org: "George Liebmann talked about his book, The Last American Diplomat: John D. Negroponte and the Changing Face of US Diplomacy, in which he chronicles the life of American diplomat, John Negroponte, whose career stretched over five decades. Mr. Liebmann spoke at the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore, Maryland. "

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Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book (video)

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Bill Gates shares his thoughts on John Brooks, author of his favorite business book Business Adventures, a collection of twelve stories that originally appeared in The New Yorker.
Others appearing in the video include:
Warren Buffett
Adam Gopnik, Staff Writer for The New Yorker
Paul Steiger, CEO, ProPulica and Former Managing Editor for The Wall Street Journal
Diane B. Henriques, Contributing Business Writer for The New York Times
James B. Stewart, Business Columnist for The New York Times
Alex Brooks, son of John Brooks
Published on Jul 11, 2014
Learn more at www.gatesnotes.com

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