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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  • Kelly Weill – Liz Pollock

    Kelly Weill – Liz Pollock
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Kelly Weill – Liz Pollock
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    Investigate reporter Kelly Weill discusses Off The Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything. Then Liz Pollock on her book, Lost Restaurants Of Santa Cruz County.

  • Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

    Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
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    Jennifer Keishin Armstrong discusses her career as a chronicler of American Popular Culture. Then a visit with book publicist Lissa Warren.

  • Filmmaker Erik Nelson

    Filmmaker Erik Nelson
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Filmmaker Erik Nelson
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    Filmmaker Erik Nelson discusses his new film, Daytime Revolution. Plus we remember rock historian Charles R. Cross

  • Samuel Garza Bernstein

    Samuel Garza Bernstein
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Guest Samuel Garza Bernstein discusses his new book, Staring Joan Crawford: The Films, The Fantasy, and the Modern Relevance of a Silver Screen Icon

  • Gary L. Shapiro, Ph.D.

    Gary L. Shapiro, Ph.D.
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Gary L. Shapiro, Ph.D.
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    Gary Shapiro talks to Gary Shapiro about his new book, Out Of The Cage: My Half Century Journey From Curiosity To Concern For Indonesia’s “Person Of The Forest”

  • Britta Lee Shain / Steve Noonan

    Britta Lee Shain / Steve Noonan
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Two great interviews with singer-songwriters originally aired in 2016 and reposted  as part of the From The Bookshelf Music Archive!! First it’s Britta Lee Shain whose love affair with Bob Dylan is the subject of her book Seeing The Real You At Last. Next we listen to my interview with Steve Noonan who recounts the recording of his 1968 Elektra LP!

  • Barney Saltzberg – Lemony Snicket

    Barney Saltzberg – Lemony Snicket
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Barney Saltzberg – Lemony Snicket
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    Barney Saltzberg talks about his work including his latest The Smell Of Wet Dog and Daniel Handler AKA Lemony Snicket discusses Poison For Breakfast.

  • William Cooper

    William Cooper
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    William Cooper discusses his new book, How America Works And Why It Doesn’t: A Brief Guide To The US Political System.

  • Julie Farnam

    Julie Farnam
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Julie Farnam, author of Domestic Darkness: An Insider’s Account of the January 6 Insurrection, and the Future of Right-Wing Extremism, returns to discus the dangers of a possible second Trump presidency.

  • Carrie Courogen

    Carrie Courogen
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Carrie Courogen
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    Carrie Courogen discusses her her new biography Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life And Work Of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius.