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On about books we delve into the latest news about the Publishing Industry with interesting insider interviews with Publishing Industry experts. Well also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books. The latest book reviews, and well talk about the current nonfiction books featured on cspan book tv. And welcome to about books, a program and podcast produced by cspan booktv. We look at the business of publishing and we talk with authors about their work as well. In just a minute, were going to be joined by columnist Danny Heitman of the Baton Rouge Advocate to talk about rereading the classics. But first, i want to let you know that all booktv programs are Available Online at booktv dot org. Danny heitman. In the wall street journal. You wrote a column entitled im revisiting the books of my youth. Why are you doing that. Well, peter, im revisiting the books of my youth, basically based on my rediscovery of my Norton Anthology of american literature. That i used as a College
Books. The latest book reviews, and well talk about the current nonfiction books featured on cspan book tv. And welcome to about books, a program and podcast produced by cspan booktv. We look at the business of publishing and we talk with authors about their work as well. In just a minute, were going to be joined by columnist Danny Heitman of the Baton Rouge Advocate to talk about rereading the classics. But first, i want to let you know that all booktv programs are Available Online at booktv dot org. Danny heitman. In the wall street journal. You wrote a column entitled im revisiting the books of my youth. Why are you doing that. Well, peter, im revisiting the books of my youth, basically based on my rediscovery of my Norton Anthology of american literature. That i used as a College Freshman College Student in 1982. And as you can see, its really born the year. Its now held together with some duct tape and basically, in the course of cleaning out my house and tidying things up, i deci
Latest news about the Publishing Industry with interesting insider interviews with Publishing Industry experts. Well also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books. The latest book reviews, and well talk about the current nonfiction books featured on cspan book tv. And welcome to about books, a program and podcast produced by cspan booktv. We look at the business of publishing and we talk with authors about their work as well. In just a minute, were going to be joined by columnist Danny Heitman of the Baton Rouge Advocate to talk about rereading the classics. But first, i want to let you know that all booktv programs are Available Online at booktv dot org. Danny heitman. In the wall street journal. You wrote a column entitled im revisiting the books of my youth. Why are you doing that. Well, peter, im revisiting the books of my youth, basically based on my rediscovery of my Norton Anthology of american literature. That i used as a College Freshman College Student in 1982
On about books we delve into the latest news about the Publishing Industry with interesting insider interviews with Publishing Industry experts. Well also give you updates on current nonfiction authors and books. The latest book reviews, and well talk about the current nonfiction books featured on cspan book tv. And welcome to about books, a program and podcast produced by cspan booktv. We look at the business of publishing and we talk with authors about their work as well. In just a minute, were going to be joined by columnist Danny Heitman of the Baton Rouge Advocate to talk about rereading the classics. But first, i want to let you know that all booktv programs are Available Online at booktv dot org. Danny heitman. In the wall street journal. You wrote a column entitled im revisiting the books of my youth. Why are you doing that. Well, peter, im revisiting the books of my youth, basically based on my rediscovery of my Norton Anthology of american literature. That i used as a College