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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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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Beatles biographer Bob Spitz returns to discuss his new book, a Beatles biography for young readers.
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