Book TV: Hot Bio of Marie Curie

by Staff, PW Daily for Booksellers -- Publishers Weekly, 3/10/2005

Focusing on serious nonfiction and the publishing industry, Book TV airs continuously each weekend from Saturday at 8 a.m. to Monday at 8 a.m. on C-SPAN2. For a full schedule, go to Book TV's Web site.

Highlights and featured authors for this coming weekend (all times Eastern):

Saturday, March 12

7 p.m. Encore Booknotes. In a segment that first aired in 1997, Brian Burrell talked about his book The Words We Live By (S&S), in which he discusses several famous English sayings, some of which shaped the American nation.

Sunday, March 13

7 p.m. Public Lives. In an event hosted by the Smithsonian Associates, Lynne Sherr, news correspondent for ABC, interviews author Barbara Goldsmith about her book Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Norton), the wife of scientist Pierre Curie, who helped her conduct the experiments that led to the discoery of radium and radioactivity. Marie Curie also invented a mobile X-ray unit that her scientist daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, who also won a Nobel Prize, operated. All three Curies became fatally ill from their work with radioactive substances. Barbara Goldsmith is also the author of The Straw Man and Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull. (Re-airs at 8:15 p.m.)