GARY SHAPIRO’S FROM THE BOOKSHELF

From the Bookshelf is produced with support from radio station KSQD in Santa Cruz California.  Host Gary Shapiro brings you interviews with best selling authors of fiction and nonfiction, graphic novelists, actors, photographers, and singer-songwriters discussing their works.  Visit us on Facebook! Your comments are welcome. Email us at gary@rattlebrain.com.

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  • Eric Lax

    Eric Lax
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Eric Lax discusses his latest book, Start To Finish: Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking.

  • Harlow Giles Unger Returns

    Harlow Giles Unger Returns
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    The brilliant historian Harlow Giles Unger returns to discuss his latest book, First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence.

  • Ann Moses’ Groovy Life

    Ann Moses’ Groovy Life
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Ann Moses’ Groovy Life
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    From 1965 to 1972 Ann Moses was a writer and editor for teen idol magazine Tiger Beat. She covered The Monkees to David Cassidy. She tells her story on this week’s From The Bookshelf!

  • Kent Hartman and Reed Tucker

    Kent Hartman and Reed Tucker
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    This week Kent Hartman returns to discuss his Wrecking Crew sequel, Goodnight L.A: The Rise & Fall Of Classic Rock. Then Reed Tucker talks about his great new history of comic books, Slugfest: Inside the Epic 50-Year Battle Between Marvel and DC.

  • Scott Eyman

    Scott Eyman
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Film historian Scott Eyman discusses his new book, Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda & James Stewart.

  • Anthony DeCurtis on Lou Reed

    Anthony DeCurtis on Lou Reed
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Grammy winning music historian Anthony DeCurtis discusses Lou Reed: A Life.

  • Robert S. Bader on The Marx Brothers

    Robert S. Bader on The Marx Brothers
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Robert S. Bader on The Marx Brothers
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    Robert Bader returns to discuss his brilliant new book, Four Of The Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers On Stage.

  • Joshua Levine on Dunkirk

    Joshua Levine on Dunkirk
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Historian Joshua Levine, who served as consultant on Christopher Nolan’s new film, discusses his book, Dunkirk: The History Behind The Major Motion Picture.

  • Phil Proctor

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    Surrealist comedian Phil Proctor of Firesign Theater!

  • Marcia Clark & Barry Livingston

    Marcia Clark & Barry Livingston
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Marcia Clark & Barry Livingston
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    Crime fiction writer Marcia Clark discusses her latest novel, Snap Judgment. Also actor Barry Livingston on Jerry Lewis  and My Three Sons.