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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  • Emmy award winning actress Loretta Swit

    Emmy award winning actress Loretta Swit
    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Emmy award winning actress Loretta Swit
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    Loretta Swit discusses her career and her art.

  • Remembering Mary Tyler Moore

    Remembering Mary Tyler Moore
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Remembering Mary Tyler Moore
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    From The Bookshelf remembers the late Mary Tyler Moore with a visit from Jennifer Keishin Armstrong , author of Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All The Brilliant Minds That Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic . Plus and encore presentation of our interview with legendary rock photographer Henry Diltz!

  • Robert Greenfield On Bear

    Robert Greenfield On Bear
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Robert Greenfield On Bear
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    Robert Greenfield brings us the story of the man who brought us LSD and The Grateful Dead! Bear: The Life & Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III.

  • David Hajdu

    David Hajdu
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    David Hajdu
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    The brilliant David Hajdu returns to discuss his latest book, Love For Sale: Pop Music In America.

  • Impressionist Rich Little

    Impressionist Rich Little
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Impressionist Rich Little
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    The legendary Rich Little discusses his new book, Little By Little: People I’ve Known and Been.

  • Ritch Shydner

    Ritch Shydner
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Ritch Shydner
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    Comedian Ritch Shydner discusses his great new book, Kicking Through The Ashes: My Life As A Stand-Up In The 1980’s Comedy Boom.

  • David Bianculli on Television

    David Bianculli on Television
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    David Bianculli on Television
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    Television historian David Bianculli discusses his great new book, The Platinum Age Of Television.

  • Florence Henderson

    Florence Henderson
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Florence Henderson
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    We listen back to our 2013 interview with the late Florence Henderson.

  • Alan J. Hamilton, M.D.

    Alan J. Hamilton, M.D.
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Alan J. Hamilton, M.D.
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    Alan J. Hamilton discusses his new book Lead With Your Heart: Lessons From A Life With Horses.

  • Tippi Hedren

    Tippi Hedren
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Tippi Hedren
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    Tippi Hedren, the only actress to be directed by both Hitchcock and Charlie Chaplin, discusses her new memoir.