From the Bookshelf

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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  • Alexandra Natapoff

    Alexandra Natapoff
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Alexandra Natapoff, Professor of Law, discusses the book she co edited, America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance, An Essay Collection from Harvard Law School Faculty.

  • Peter M. Hoffman

    Peter M. Hoffman
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    Former Carolco Pictures president and Yale-trained attorney Peter M. Hoffman, the man behind blockbuster independent films like Terminator 2 and Basic Instinct, discusses his new book Karmic Winds: Reflections from the “Smartest Guy in Hollywood”

  • Tess Gerritsen ~ Monty Roberts

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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
    Tess Gerritsen ~ Monty Roberts
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    Bestselling author Tess Gerritsen discusses her latest book, The Shadow Friends. Then From The Bookshelf remembers Monty Roberts: The Man Who Can Talk To Horses

  • Shelley Curtis

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    Emmy winning director and producer of daytime television drama discusses her career in the soaps.

  • David Thomson

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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    David Thomson discusses his latest book, A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies

  • David King Dunaway – Ronnie Schell

    David King Dunaway – Ronnie Schell
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    David King Dunaway discusses his new book, A Four-Eyed World: How Glasses Changed the Way We See. Then an archive interview with the late great comedian Ronnie Schell.

  • A.M. Gittlitz on New York Baseball

    A.M. Gittlitz on New York Baseball
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    A.M. Gittlitz discusses his new book, Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team

  • Jim Windolf

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    Jim Windolf discusses his new book, Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other—and the World.

  • Alexa Morris – Kitty Bruce

    Alexa Morris – Kitty Bruce
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    Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf
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    Author Alexa Morris discusses her new book, The Courtyard, a memoir of her father in law’s experiences in hiding during the Holocaust in war torn France . Then, from 2016, an interview with the late Kitty Bruce discussing her lifelong dedication to preserving the legacy of her father Lenny Bruce.

  • Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

    Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
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    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.