Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf

Gary Shapiro
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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. Your comments are welcome! Email us at gary@rattlebrain.com

Episodes

  1. 12H AGO

    Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

    Jennifer Keishin Armstrong returns to discuss her new book, Parks and Rec: The Underdog TV Show That Lit'rally Inspired a Vision for a Better America.

    58 min

  2. APR 23

    Mark Malkoff – Todd Diamond

    This week’s guests are Mark Malkoff, author of Love Johnny Carson, Todd Diamond, author of Pass The Trauma Please, and Alisoon van Diggelen, author of The LOVE Project.

    1 hr

  3. APR 9

    Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

    Gloria J. Browne-Marshall discusses her new book,  A Protest History of The United Sates.

    59 min

  4. MAR 26

    Michael Kimmel

    Historian Michael Kimmel discusses his new book, Playmakers:The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created The Toy Industry In America.

    58 min

  5. MAR 12

    Victoria Hetherington – Robynn Smith

    Victoria Hetherington discusses her new book The Friend Machine: On The Trail Of AI Companionship. Robynn Smith talks Print Day In May.

    58 min

  6. FEB 26

    The Legendary Alice Gerrard

    Alice Gerrard discusses her career and her new book, Custom Made Woman: A Life In Traditional Music

    58 min

  7. FEB 12

    Carla Kaplan

    Carla Kaplan discusses her acclaimed new biography, Trouble Maker: The Fierce, Unruly Life Of Jessica Mitford.

    57 min

  8. JAN 29

    David Margolick

    David Margolick discusses his new book, When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy

    58 min

  9. JAN 15

    Susanne Paola Antonetta Julie Farnam

    Susanne Paola Antonetta discusses her book The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today. Julie Farnam, author of Domestic Darkness, returns with her perspectives on our current political situ

    58 min

  10. 12/18/2025

    Paul Burch – Scott Brogan

    Paul Burch tells the story of  country music pioneer Jimmy Rodgers in Meridian Rising: A Novel. Scott Brogan discusses his new book, Judy Garland: The Voice Of MGM.

    58 min
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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. Your comments are welcome! Email us at gary@rattlebrain.com

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