Booknotes.org is the permanent online archive for C-SPAN’s award-winning author interview program, Booknotes. Booknotes.org For sixteen years, from April 1989 to December 2004, Booknotes was C-SPAN's signature author-interview program. Focusing exclusively on contemporary nonfiction books, the Booknotes series created an unparalleled television forum for writers of history, biography, politics, and public affairs.