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

Michael Kimmel

2026-03-2458:00

Historian Michael Kimmel discusses his new book, Playmakers:The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created The Toy Industry In America.
Victoria Hetherington discusses her new book The Friend Machine: On The Trail Of AI Companionship. Robynn Smith talks Print Day In May.
Alice Gerrard discusses her career and her new book, Custom Made Woman: A Life In Traditional Music
Carla Kaplan

Carla Kaplan

2026-02-0657:23

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

David Margolick

2026-01-2958:25

David Margolick discusses his new book, When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy
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 situation.
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.
Film historian Scott Eyman returns to discuss his new biography, Joan Crawford: A Woman’s Face.
Singer-songwriter Sam Milton previews his new album, Nausea and visual artist Claire Rosen discusses her extraordinary new book, Birds Of A Feather. Plus Lissa Warren talks books.
William Cooper discusses his new novel, The Trail of Donald H. Rumsfeld. Then Bremond and Lisa from Quite Literally Books tell us about their newest releases!
Jonathan Mahler

Jonathan Mahler

2025-10-2358:30

Johnathan Mahler discusses his new book The Gods Of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth Of The Modern City 1986=1990
Peter Guralnick

Peter Guralnick

2025-10-1658:35

Rock historian and Elvis Presley scholar Peter Guralnick discusses his new book, The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership That Rocked The World.
The late Bobby Hart, creator of the sound of The Monkees is remembered in 2015 interview. Historian Mary Beth Norton on her new book, I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer:Letter On Love And Marriage From The World’s First Personal Advice Column.
Howard Yaruss

Howard Yaruss

2025-09-0457:21

Economist, professor, lawyer and activist Howard Yaruss discusses his book, Understandable Economics: Beacause Understanding Economics Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know.
Popular culture historian Jennifer Keishin Armstrong reflects on the end of And Just Like That..., the Sex and the City sequel.
Dean Butler

Dean Butler

2025-08-2157:51

Actor Dean Butler discusses his new memoir Prairie Man: My Little House Life and Beyond.
Historian and journalist Jim Newton discusses his new book, Here Beside The Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, And An American Awakening.
Tribute to Tom Lehrer

Tribute to Tom Lehrer

2025-07-3159:31

On this tribute to Tom Lehrer we listen back to a program recorded in 2006, as well as memories from jazz singer Judy Wexler, actor Josiah Polhemus and songwriter Michael Gould.
J. Randy Taraborrelli

J. Randy Taraborrelli

2025-07-2458:07

J. Randy Tarraborelli returns to discuss his latest book, JFK Public Private Secret
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