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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  • Jonathan Mahler

    Jonathan Mahler
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Johnathan Mahler discusses his new book The Gods Of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth Of The Modern City 1986=1990

  • Peter Guralnick

    Peter Guralnick
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Rock historian and Elvis Presley scholar Peter Guralnick discusses his new book, The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership That Rocked The World.

  • Bobby Hart – Mary Beth Norton

    Bobby Hart – Mary Beth Norton
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    The late Bobby Hart, creator of the sound of The Monkees is  remembered in 2015 interview. Historian Mary Beth Norton on her new book, I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer:Letter On Love And Marriage From The World’s First Personal Advice Column.

  • Howard Yaruss

    Howard Yaruss
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    Economist, professor, lawyer and activist Howard Yaruss discusses his book, Understandable Economics: Beacause Understanding Economics Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know.

  • Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

    Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Popular culture historian Jennifer Keishin Armstrong reflects on the end of And Just Like That…, the Sex and the City sequel.

  • Dean Butler

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    Actor Dean Butler discusses his new memoir Prairie Man: My Little House Life and Beyond.

  • Jim Newton on Jerry Garcia

    Jim Newton on Jerry Garcia
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Historian and journalist Jim Newton discusses his new book, Here Beside The Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, And An American Awakening.

  • Tribute to Tom Lehrer

    Tribute to Tom Lehrer
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Tribute to Tom Lehrer
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    On this tribute to Tom Lehrer we listen back to a program recorded in 2006, as well as memories from jazz singer Judy Wexler, actor Josiah Polhemus and songwriter Michael Gould.

  • J. Randy Taraborrelli

    J. Randy Taraborrelli
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    J. Randy Tarraborelli returns to discuss his latest book, JFK Public Private Secret

  • Julie Farnam Returns

    Julie Farnam Returns
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Political expert Julie Farnam, author of Domestic Darkness: An Insiders Account of the January 6th Insurrection and the Future of Right-Wing Extremism is the guest. Plus book publicist Lissa Warren.