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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Mark Harris has written an incisive book about the five films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar of 1967. Harris traces the making of these films and the revolution in Hollywood that they wrought.
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Former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi returns to From the Bookshelf to discuss his new book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for murder.
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The tragic tale of the great elephant Jumbo is recounted in an excellent new book whose author, Paul Chambers, is this week’s guest!
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David Hajdu comes to discuss his new book on the comic books scandals of the 1950’s, but first Gary asks about Hajdu’s previous book, Positively 4th Street, a book about the young Bob Dylan. Its all very interesting!
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Seth Shulman set out to write about Alexander Graham Bell, but discovered a surprising little detail about Bell’s greatest invention: it was stolen from somebody else!
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The creator of Family Ties and Spin City joins us this week for a great discussion of his work and his new memoir. Gary David Goldberg meets Gary Lawrence Shapiro!
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Mark Evanier, who can be found at www.newsfromme.com , has written an extraordinary and big biography of Jack Kirby. Kirby was the artistic genius whose hand created hundreds of comic book legends including The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, The Silver Surfer, and Fin Fang Foom! Mark Evanier discusses Kirby and the birth of the comic book this week on From the Bookshelf! ‘nuff said!
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James Kaplan returns to the Bookshelf to discuss the great songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen. Van Heusen wrote many of the greatest hits of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, won Oscars, and slept with beautiful women. Ring-a-Ding-Ding!
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Born on a Blue Day is the extraordinary memoir from our guest this week, autistic savant Daniel Tammet. He is sort of a real life Rainman, without the People’s Court obsession. Listen to our fascinating discussion!
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Art historian David Michaelis discusses his acclaimed biography of Charles M. Schultz, the extraordinary cartoonist who gave us Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and good old Charlie Brown.
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