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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  • 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!

  • Tom Santopietro

    Tom Santopietro
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Tom Santopietro
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    Tom Santopietro returns to discuss his latest book, The Sound Of Music Story.

  • Paula Rabinowitz on Paperbacks

    Paula Rabinowitz on Paperbacks
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Paula Rabinowitz on Paperbacks
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    Paula Rabinowitz discusses her brilliant new book, American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street.

  • Cynthia Lennon

    Cynthia Lennon
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Cynthia Lennon
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    Cynthia Lennon died on April 1, 2015 of cancer. She was 75. In 2005 she wrote a memoir of her ten years with John Lennon. This interview with Cynthia Lennon was recorded on Thanksgiving Day, 2005.

  • Film Historian Jeanine Basinger

    Film Historian Jeanine Basinger
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Film Historian Jeanine Basinger
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    The brilliant author, educator and film historian Jeanine Basinger returns to talk about guess what: Movies!

  • Novelist Hazel Gaynor

    Novelist Hazel Gaynor
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Novelist Hazel Gaynor
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    Hazel Gaynor, author of two fine historical novels, is this week’s guest.

  • The Brilliant Tom Davis

    The Brilliant Tom Davis
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    The Brilliant Tom Davis
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    From The Bookshelf celebrates the 40th anniversary of SNL with an encore presentation of our interview with the late great Tom Davis, one of the original contributors to SNL and the author of the best of the SNL inspired memoirs.

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  • Marky Ramone’s Life As A Ramone

    Marky Ramone’s Life As A Ramone
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Marky Ramone’s Life As A Ramone
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    Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame drummer Marky Ramone discusses his life and his memoir Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life As A Ramone.