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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

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Santa Cruz, CA

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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

Twitter:

@KUSP

Language:

English

Contact:

c/o KUSP 203 8th Avenue Santa Cruz, CA 95062 831-476-2800


Episodes
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Kirthana Ramisetti - Christopher Reich

4/11/2024
Kirthiana Ramisetti, author of Advika and the Hollwood Wives, and Christopher Reich, author of Matterhorn are the guests.

Duration:01:01:55

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Burt Kearns on Brando

4/4/2024
Burt Kearns discusses his new book Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel. This month marks the 100th anniversary of Brando’s birth.

Duration:00:58:02

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James Kaplan on Kind Of Blue

3/14/2024
James Kaplan returns to discuss his new book, 3 Shades Of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool.

Duration:00:57:49

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George Schlatter

2/15/2024
George Schlatter, creator of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, discusses new memoir, Still Laughing: A Life In Comedy.

Duration:00:57:59

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Julie Farnam

2/1/2024
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.

Duration:00:56:02

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Julie Farnam

2/1/2024
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.

Duration:00:56:02

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Julie Farnam

2/1/2024
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.

Duration:00:56:02

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Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

1/18/2024
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).

Duration:00:57:33

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Peter Biskind

1/4/2024
Culture historian Peter Biskind discusses his new book, Pandora’s Box: How Guts, Guile, And Greed Upended TV.

Duration:00:58:01

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Philip Norman on George Harrison

12/21/2023
Beatles biographer Philip Norman returns do discuss his new book, George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle.

Duration:00:57:56

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Paula Broussard & Lisa Royére

12/7/2023
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.

Duration:00:57:56

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Yunte Huang

11/23/2023
Yunte Huang returns to discuss his new book. Daughter Of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous With American History.

Duration:00:57:58

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Eve Golden on Lupe Velez plus Steacy Easton on Tammy Wynette

11/9/2023
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.

Duration:00:57:56

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Scott Eyman

10/12/2023
Film historian Scott Eyman discusses his new book, Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, And Politics Collided.

Duration:00:57:56

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Scott Shea / Terry Kirkman

9/28/2023
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.

Duration:00:57:57

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Greg Glasgow & Kathryn Mayer and Animator Floyd Norman

9/14/2023
Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer discuss their new book, Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, The Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was. Then, from 2010, Disney animator Floyd Norman.

Duration:00:57:56

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The Turtle’s Mark Volman

8/17/2023
Mark Volman discusses his new book, Happy Together: My Musical Adventures with The Turtles, Frank Zappa, T. Rex, Flo & Eddie, and More

Duration:00:58:32

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J. Randy Taraborrelli on Jackie O

8/3/2023
Kennedy chronicler and biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli returns to discuss his new book: Jackie: Public, Private, Secret.

Duration:00:57:02

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Jonathan Eig

7/20/2023
Jonathan Eig discusses his new biography, King: A Life.

Duration:00:58:06

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Lisa See Returns - John Malkin on Punk

6/22/2023
Lisa See returns with another extraordinary historical novel, Lady Tan’s Circle Of Women. Plus historian John Malkin discusses Punk Revolution! An Oral History of Punk Rock Politics and Activism.

Duration:00:57:56