Set your VCR’s and DVR’s! Depending on where you live, you will get a chance to catch Helvetica, on your local PBS station, either Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. The full-theater release was about 80 minutes long, but they have condensed it to 50 minutes and are airing it as part of their Independent [...]

Apparantly, I am one of the three people that watched The Quill Book Awards last year. Now, organizers say public interest has been so bad, that they are taking voting privleges away from the public and giving them to 6,000 booksellers and experts. Us commoners used to get to vote in all the categories. Now, [...]

This weekend’s schedule for BookTV is up.

The Birmingham Public Library has posted its first show on YouTube. You can view the video here, from their blog. It’s the epsiode promoting Alabama Bound and discussing a book on Miles College and drama titled Mayor Todd. The YouTube video has a couple of weird edits and lasts around six minutes. Unless I’m mistaken, [...]

to check out this weekend’s Book TV schedule.

to check out this weekend’s BookTV schedule. The most interesting segment I see would have to be Kantor’s Guide on Politically Incorrect English and American Literature. She seems to make some pretty bold statements. It’s fun to talk to your tv! Maybe even argue! DVR’s are go!

to check out this weekend’s BookTV schedule. I see that they are re-airing the hand-illuminated St. John’s Bible segment again. It’s pretty good. Plenty of discussion about the publishing process of a project this size and the artist’s design process. But then I’ve always been a sucker for The Book Guys radio show.

To check out the listings for BookTV this weekend.

There is LOTS of Book TV to watch this weekend. It starts Saturday and runs all the way through Tueday morning! Here’s the schedule. Happy New Year!

An extra day of BookTV goodness! I have the dvr set for… Eric Burns talking about his book Infamous Scribblers, Artist Donald Jackson talking about a brand-new hand-illuminated Bible, and David Kamp talking about his book The United States of Arugula. Merry Christmas!