After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new nonfiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book. The program airs on Saturday at 10 p.m. Eastern Time, with encores on Sunday at 12 p.m. and at 9 p.m., and Monday at 12 a.m.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 2005 | Episode 1 | Newt Gingrich | 2005-01-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 2 | Howard Friel | 2005-01-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 3 | Craig Shirley | 2005-01-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 4 | Melissa Boyle Mahle | 2005-01-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 5 | Essie Mae Washington-Williams | 2005-02-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 6 | Nathan Sharansky | 2005-02-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 7 | Doug Wead | 2005-02-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 8 | William Hague | 2005-02-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 9 | Donald Ritchie | 2005-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 10 | Tom Fenton | 2005-03-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 11 | Ari Fleischer | 2005-03-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 12 | Jim Wallis | 2005-03-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 13 | Ernestine Lieberman | 2005-04-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 14 | Bob Dole | 2005-04-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 15 | Linda Greenhouse | 2005-05-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 16 | Byron York | 2005-05-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 17 | Michael Eric Dyson | 2005-05-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 18 | Ronald Radosh | 2005-05-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 19 | Jack Coughlin | 2005-05-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 20 | Zell Miller | 2005-06-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 21 | David Rothkopf | 2005-06-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 22 | Robert Merry | 2005-06-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 23 | Victor Navasky | 2005-07-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 24 | Asra Nomani | 2005-07-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 25 | Harvey Kaye | 2005-08-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 26 | Ralph Peters | 2005-08-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 27 | Sheldon Hackney | 2005-08-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 28 | Barbara Ehrenreich | 2005-09-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 29 | Steve Forbes | 2005-09-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 30 | Tony Blankley | 2005-09-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 31 | Andrea Mitchell | 2005-10-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 32 | Chris Whittle | 2005-10-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 33 | Mary Frances Berry | 2005-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 34 | Thomas P.M. Barnett | 2005-11-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 35 | Bill Richardson | 2005-11-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 36 | Neil Baldwin | 2005-11-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 37 | Charles Peters | 2005-11-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 38 | Bruce Chadwick | 2005-12-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 39 | Mary Mapes | 2005-12-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 40 | Haynes Johnson | 2005-12-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 41 | Nathaniel Fick | 2005-12-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2005 | Episode 42 | John Linder | 2005-12-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2006 | Episode 1 | Patricia O'Toole | 2006-01-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2007 | Episode 1 | Anthony Weller | 2007-01-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2008 | Episode 1 | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 2008-01-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2009 | Episode 1 | Michael Gerson | 2009-01-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2010 | Episode 1 | Ann Coulter | 2010-01-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2011 | Episode 1 | Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen | 2011-01-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2012 | Episode 1 | Pat Buchanan | 2012-01-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 1 | John Jenkins | 2013-01-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 23 | Sheila Miyoshi Jager | 2013-08-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 43 | Peter Gottschalk | 2013-11-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 1 | Charles Moore | 2014-01-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 50 | Damon Root | 2014-12-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 1 | Chuck Todd | 2015-01-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 51 | Darcy Olsen | 2015-12-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 1 | James Rosen | 2016-01-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 50 | Joann Lublin | 2016-12-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 1 | Sophie Pinkham | 2017-01-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 2 | Jonathan Chait | 2017-01-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 3 | Bret Baier | 2017-01-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 4 | Emrys Westacott | 2017-01-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 5 | Hugh Hewitt | 2017-02-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 6 | Melissa Fleming | 2017-02-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 7 | Roger Stone | 2017-02-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 8 | Sylvia Tara | 2017-02-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 9 | Sophia Nelson | 2017-02-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 10 | Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin | 2017-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 11 | Richard Haass | 2017-03-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 12 | Lisa Servon | 2017-03-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 13 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse | 2017-04-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 14 | Charles Campisi | 2017-04-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 15 | Bill Gertz | 2017-04-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 16 | Helene Cooper | 2017-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 17 | Ken Buck | 2017-04-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 18 | Governor John Kasich | 2017-04-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 19 | Chris Hayes | 2017-05-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 20 | Elisabeth Rosenthal | 2017-05-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 21 | Stuart Taylor | 2017-05-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 22 | Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider | 2017-05-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 23 | Anne-Marie Slaughter | 2017-06-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 24 | Senator Ben Sasse | 2017-06-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 25 | Senator Mike Lee | 2017-06-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 26 | Heath Davis | 2017-07-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 27 | Brian Merchant | 2017-07-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 28 | Naomi Klein | 2017-07-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 29 | Sharyl Attkisson | 2017-07-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 30 | Representative Rosa DeLauro | 2017-07-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 31 | Jesse Eisinger | 2017-08-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 32 | Senator Jeff Flake | 2017-08-12 | 40 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 33 | Milo Yiannopoulos | 2017-08-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 34 | Mark Levin | 2017-09-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 35 | Danielle Allen | 2017-09-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 36 | David Osborne | 2017-09-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 37 | Suzy Hansen | 2017-09-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 1 | Adam Jentleson | 2021-01-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 2 | Charles Blow | 2021-01-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 3 | Amelia Pang | 2021-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 4 | Beau Wise and Tom Sileo | 2021-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 5 | Heather McGhee | 2021-02-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 6 | John Fortier | 2021-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 7 | Sara Horowitz | 2021-02-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 8 | Joby Warrick | 2021-02-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 9 | John Woodrow Cox | 2021-04-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 10 | Charles Kesler | 2021-04-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 11 | Senator Elizabeth Warren | 2021-05-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 12 | Jason Riley | 2021-05-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 13 | Andy Slavitt | 2021-07-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 14 | Rosa Brooks | 2021-07-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 15 | Brad Stone | 2021-07-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 16 | Jane Harman | 2021-07-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 17 | Lieutenant Colonel Wayne Phelps | 2021-08-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 18 | Ursula Burns | 2021-08-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 19 | Bill Bratton | 2021-08-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 20 | Cindy McCain | 2021-08-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 21 | Robert Woodson | 2021-08-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 22 | Dana Perino | 2021-08-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 23 | Senator Tammy Duckworth | 2021-08-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 24 | Eric Metaxas | 2021-08-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 25 | Dambisa Moyo | 2021-08-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 26 | Lisa Genova | 2021-08-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 27 | Patrick Radden Keefe | 2021-09-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 28 | Catherine Flowers | 2021-09-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 29 | Robin DiAngelo | 2021-09-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 30 | Alex Marlow | 2021-09-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 31 | Mark Sanford | 2021-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 32 | Ben Shapiro | 2021-11-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 33 | Michelle Easton | 2021-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 34 | Josh Mitchell | 2021-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 35 | Adam Schiff | 2021-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 36 | Lizzie Johnson | 2021-11-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 37 | George Will | 2021-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 38 | Andrew Yang | 2021-11-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 39 | Dr. Paul Offit | 2021-11-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 40 | Ben Nelson | 2021-11-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 41 | Farah Stockman | 2021-11-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 42 | Vivek Ramaswamy | 2021-11-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 1 | David Price | 2022-01-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 2 | Leonard Mlodinow | 2022-01-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 3 | Barbara Walter | 2022-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 4 | Will Haskell | 2022-01-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 5 | Ro Khanna | 2022-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 6 | Jason Riley | 2022-02-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 7 | Mark Bauerlein | 2022-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 8 | Laura Coates | 2022-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 9 | Kelly Weill | 2022-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 10 | Glenn Hubbard | 2022-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 11 | Vince Ellison | 2022-03-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 12 | Kevin Rudd | 2022-03-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 13 | Marie Yovanovitch | 2022-03-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 14 | Greg Bluestein | 2022-03-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 15 | Will Hurd | 2022-03-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 16 | Justin Gest | 2022-04-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 17 | Deborah Birx | 2022-05-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 18 | Steve Forbes | 2022-05-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 19 | Mark Esper | 2022-05-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 20 | Kellyanne Conway | 2022-06-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 21 | Lori Garver | 2022-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 22 | Senator Raphael Warnock | 2022-06-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 23 | Betsy DeVos | 2022-06-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 24 | Governor Kristi Noem | 2022-06-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 25 | Ari Fleischer | 2022-07-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 26 | Senator Patrick Leahy | 2022-08-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 27 | Chris Stirewalt | 2022-08-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 28 | Mark Bergen | 2022-09-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 29 | Cynt Marshall | 2022-09-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 30 | Brandi Collins-Dexter | 2022-09-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 31 | Peter Navarro | 2022-09-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 32 | Representative Cori Bush | 2022-09-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 33 | Chris Miller | 2022-10-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 34 | Beth Truesdale | 2022-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 35 | Emily Flitter | 2022-10-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 36 | Major Garrett and David Becker | 2022-10-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 37 | Chloe Sorvino | 2022-11-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 38 | Steve Case | 2022-11-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 39 | Nouriel Roubini | 2022-11-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 40 | Steven Sund | 2022-12-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 1 | Ben Crump and Armstrong Williams | 2023-01-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 2 | Philip Bump | 2023-01-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 3 | Representative Ken Buck | 2023-01-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 4 | Saket Soni | 2023-01-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 5 | Maya Kornberg | 2023-02-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 6 | Joanna Schwartz | 2023-02-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 7 | Todd Bensman | 2023-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 8 | Nick Tabor | 2023-02-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 9 | Angela Saini | 2023-02-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 10 | Mia Love | 2023-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 11 | Kathleen McLaughlin | 2023-03-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 12 | Matthew Desmond | 2023-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 13 | Kelly Pope | 2023-03-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 14 | David McCormick | 2023-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 15 | Matika Wilbur | 2023-04-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 16 | Ava Chin | 2023-04-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 17 | Alexandra Robbins | 2023-04-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 18 | Oscar Munoz | 2023-05-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 19 | Keith Ellison | 2023-05-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 20 | David Bernhardt | 2023-05-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 21 | Michael Waldman | 2023-06-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 22 | Elizabeth Currid-Halkett | 2023-06-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 23 | Jason Del Rey | 2023-06-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 24 | Wesley Lowery | 2023-06-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 25 | Matt Lewis | 2023-07-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 26 | Judge Amul Thapar | 2023-07-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 27 | Cara Fitzpatrick | 2023-08-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 28 | Meg Kissinger | 2023-08-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 29 | Loren Grush | 2023-09-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 30 | Melissa Kearney | 2023-09-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 31 | Adam Nagourney | 2023-09-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 32 | Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson | 2023-09-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 33 | Ryan Reilly | 2023-10-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 34 | Martin Baron | 2023-10-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 35 | Ruth Simmons | 2023-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 36 | Greg Lukianoff | 2023-11-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 37 | Fei-Fei Li | 2023-11-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 38 | Jeff Horwitz | 2023-11-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 39 | Tim Alberta | 2023-12-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 40 | Rachel Slade | 2023-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 1 | David Stockman | 2024-01-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 2 | Donald McNeil | 2024-01-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 3 | Ijeoma Oluo | 2024-01-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 4 | Coleman Hughes | 2024-02-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 5 | Andrew Curran | 2024-02-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 6 | Marie Arana | 2024-02-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 7 | Kara Swisher | 2024-02-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 8 | Dr. Elizabeth Comen | 2024-02-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 9 | Jane Marie | 2024-03-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 10 | Teresa Ghilarducci | 2024-03-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 11 | Jonathan Haidt | 2024-03-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 12 | Annie Jacobsen | 2024-03-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 13 | Batya Ungar-Sargon | 2024-04-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 14 | Eddie Glaude | 2024-04-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 15 | Susan Page | 2024-04-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 16 | Jim Wallis | 2024-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 17 | David Sanger | 2024-04-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 18 | Johann Hari | 2024-05-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 19 | Mike Hixenbaugh | 2024-05-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 20 | Shefali Luthra | 2024-05-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 21 | Ernesto Londoño | 2024-05-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 22 | Lawrence Ingrassia | 2024-06-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 23 | Ruchir Sharma | 2024-06-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 24 | Jonathan Turley | 2024-07-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 25 | Peter Goodman | 2024-07-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 26 | Joel Pollak | 2024-08-12 | 60 min |
