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From the Bookshelf is heard on radio station KSQD in Santa Cruz California. Host Gary Shapiro brings you interviews with best selling authors of fiction and non-fiction, graphic novelists, actors, photographers, and singer-songwriters discussing their works. Visit us on Facebook! Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Your comments are welcome! Email us at gary@rattlebrain.com

Gary Shapiro’s From The Bookshelf Gary Shapiro's From the Bookshelf

    • Arts
    • 4.5 • 22 Ratings

This website does not work with Google Chrome! Please use a different browser! Listen On Your iPhone!
From the Bookshelf is heard on radio station KSQD in Santa Cruz California. Host Gary Shapiro brings you interviews with best selling authors of fiction and non-fiction, graphic novelists, actors, photographers, and singer-songwriters discussing their works. Visit us on Facebook! Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Your comments are welcome! Email us at gary@rattlebrain.com

    James Kaplan on Kind Of Blue

    James Kaplan on Kind Of Blue

    James Kaplan returns to discuss his new book, 3 Shades Of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool.

    • 57 min
    George Schlatter

    George Schlatter

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

    • 57 min
    Julie Farnam

    Julie Farnam

    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.

    • 56 min
    Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

    Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

    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).

    • 57 min
    Peter Biskind

    Peter Biskind

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

    • 58 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
22 Ratings

22 Ratings

Tall Beth ,

Better Than Fresh Air!

I really love this podcast. Every interview is interesting, even if I think I won't care about the subject being discussed!

ShannySoul ,

Just... Just Nah

Nah

Uncle Karen ,

Great show!

Intelligent and fascinating interviews with interesting authors and performers. Highly recommended!

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