From the Bookshelf

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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  • Musician Bobby Hart

    Musician Bobby Hart
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Musician Bobby Hart
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    Bobby Hart, who helped create the sound of the Monkees and wrote many great hit songs, discusses his new memoir, Psychedelic Bubble Gum: Boyce & Hart, The Monkees, and Turning Mayhem into Miracles.

  • Robert Greenfield On The Rolling Stones

    Robert Greenfield On The Rolling Stones
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Robert Greenfield On The Rolling Stones
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    Robert Greenfield discusses his latest book, Ain’t It Time We Said Goodbye: The Rolling Stones On The Road To Exile

  • Music Historian Mick Houghton

    Music Historian Mick Houghton
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Music Historian Mick Houghton
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    Mick Houghton discusses his new book: I’ve Always Kept A Unicorn, The Biography Of Sandy Denny

  • Music Business Historian Fred Goodman

    Music Business Historian Fred Goodman
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Music Business Historian Fred Goodman
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    Fred Goodman tells the facsinating story of an important figure in the history of popular music, Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out The Beatles, Made The Stones, And Transformed Rock & Roll.

  • David McCullough on The Wright Brothers

    David McCullough on The Wright Brothers
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    David McCullough on The Wright Brothers
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    David McCullogh discusses his new book, The Wright Brothers.

  • From The Bookshelf Remembers Monica Lewis

    From The Bookshelf Remembers Monica Lewis
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    From The Bookshelf Remembers Monica Lewis
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    This week we listen back to an interview with actress and singer Monica Lewis. She died on June 12 at the age of 93.

  • Vincent Bugliosi 1934 – 2015

    Vincent Bugliosi 1934 – 2015
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Vincent Bugliosi 1934 – 2015
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    Listen back to our 2007 interview with the late Vincent Bugliosi, the brilliant prosecutor in the Manson Case. Bugliosi discusses his “magnum opus” Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President Kennedy.

  • Tara Murtha on Bobbie Gentry

    Tara Murtha on Bobbie Gentry
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Tara Murtha on Bobbie Gentry
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    Tara Murtha discusses her fine biography of the enigmatic Bobbie Gentry, Ode To Billie Joe.

  • Historian Jonathan W. Jordan

    Historian Jonathan W. Jordan
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Historian Jonathan W. Jordan
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    Jonathan Jordan discusses his new book, American Warlords: How Roosevelt’s High Command Led America To Victory In World War II.

  • Joan Kramer & David Heeley

    Joan Kramer & David Heeley
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Joan Kramer & David Heeley
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    Joan Kramer & David Heeley are the people who created those wonderful PBS documentaries about Katherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, Fred Astaire and Spencer Tracy among others. Now they have written a book about their experiences In The Company Of Legends. They talk all about it on this week’s show!