from october 10th-12th, the southern festival of books in downtown nashville hosts over 200 authors and features three performance stages with live readings and music. the following week from october 16th-19th is the wisconsin book festival in madison, wisconsin. and on october 25th and 26th, booktv will be live from austin, texas, for the 19th annual texas book festival. the festival from the state's capital city will showcase over 275 authors. let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area, and we'll add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv at c-span.org. >> malcolm byrne takes an updated look at the iran contra scandal using interviews with key participants. he argues the scandal was likely bigger than previously believed. this is about an hour and a half. ..

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october 10th to the 12th, the southern festival of books will hold their 26-inch gathering in downtown nashville. the event hosts over 200 prominent authors and three performance stages for live readings and music. let usow about book fairs and festival your area and we'll be happy to add them to our list, e-mail us. >> discussing her soon to be published book, without you there is no us. my time with the sons of north korea's elite miss kim talks to book tv of book expo america, the publishing industry's annual trade show held the javits convention center in new york city. >> author suki kim, where are you from. >> guest: i'm from south korea originally. born and raised there. and i came to america when i was 13. >> host: why did you dom the states? >> guest: long story. but as all immigrants do, there was a lot of turbulence, and then i ended up in queens originally, new york, without a word of english. >> oo what do use do for a living today. >> guest: i'm a novelist and a journalist so i publish novels, literary novel, how i began writing, and then i'm coming out with a book -- actually, i'v