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Television historian David Bianculli, founder of TV Worth Watching, drops by to discuss his great new book Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
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Podcast: Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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Kate Evans’ Complimentary Colors
/RSS FeedNovelist and poet Kate Evans joins Gary Shapiro in the KUSP studio to discuss her second novel, Complementary Colors.
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David Sax on The Vanishing Deli
/RSS FeedGet ready to get really hungry as you listen to David Sax telling us about great delicatessen food, and the great vanishing Jewish deli!
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Norman Stone on WWI
/RSS FeedHistorian Norman Stone talks with Gary Shapiro about his short history of World War One.
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Michael Goldfarb on Jewish Emancipation
/RSS FeedMichael Goldfarb of NPR joins us to discuss his fine new work Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance. Listen now!
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Richard Slotkin on The Battle of the Crater 1864
/RSS FeedHistorian Richard Slotkin brings the story one of the great catastrophes of the Civil War this week as he discusses his book No Quarter.
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Timothy Egan’s The Big Burn
/RSS FeedPulitzer and National Book Award winner Timothy Egan is this week’s guest. His latest book is The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & The Fire That Saved America.
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Michael Wex
/RSS FeedMichael Wex , author of Born To Kvetch, joins Gary Shapiro to discuss his new book How To Be A Mentsh (& Not A Schmuck)!
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Denis Kitchen on Kurtzman
/RSS FeedI am Mad about this beautiful book of The Art Of Harvey Kurtzman. Editor Denis Kitchen discusses the life and work of the comic genius.
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