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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  • George Schlatter

    George Schlatter
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    George Schlatter
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    George Schlatter, creator of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, discusses new memoir, Still Laughing: A Life In Comedy.

  • Julie Farnam

    Julie Farnam
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Julie Farnam
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    This week’s guest is Julie Farnam, author of Domestic Darkness: An Insider’s Account of the January 6th Insurrection, and the Future of Right-Wing Extremism. Julie Farnam served as the Assistant Director of Intelligence for the United States Capitol Police during one of the most tumultuous periods in this country’s history.

  • 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 returns to the show to discuss her new book, So Fetch: The Making Of Mean Girls (And Why We’re Still Obsessed With It).

  • Peter Biskind

    Peter Biskind
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Culture historian Peter Biskind discusses his new book, Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, And Greed Upended TV.

  • Philip Norman on George Harrison

    Philip Norman on George Harrison
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Philip Norman on George Harrison
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    Beatles biographer Philip Norman returns do discuss his new book, George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle.

  • Paula Broussard & Lisa Royére

    Paula Broussard & Lisa Royére
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Paula Broussard & Lisa Royére
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    Paula Broussard & Lisa Royére discuss their new biography of the great dancer of Hollywood’s golden age, Eleanor Powell. Also Andrew Gulli of The Strand Magazine talks about a new discovery of an unpublished Truman Capote story.

  • Yunte Huang

    Yunte Huang
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Yunte Huang
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    Yunte Huang returns to discuss his new book. Daughter Of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous With American History.

  • Eve Golden on Lupe Velez plus Steacy Easton on Tammy Wynette

    Eve Golden on Lupe Velez
 plus Steacy Easton on Tammy Wynette
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Eve Golden on Lupe Velez plus Steacy Easton on Tammy Wynette
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    Film historian Eve Golden returns to discuss her new book, Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life Of Lupe Velez. Then Steacy Easton, author of Why Tammy Wynette Matters.

  • Scott Eyman

    Scott Eyman
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Scott Eyman
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    Film historian Scott Eyman discusses his new book, Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, And Politics Collided.

  • Scott Shea / Terry Kirkman

    Scott Shea / Terry Kirkman
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Scott Shea / Terry Kirkman
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    Scott Shea discusses his new book, All The Leaves Are Brown: How The Mamas & The Papas Came Together and Broke Apart. Plus a 2011 interview with the late Terry Kirkman, singer and songwriter with The Association.