The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale
THE BIBLIO FILE is a podcast about "the book," and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging, long-form conversations with authors, poets, book publishers, booksellers, book editors, book collectors, book makers, book scholars, book critics, book designers, book publicists, literary agents and many others inside the book trade and out - from writer to reader.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 598
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
Novelist Heather O'Neill on Fathers, #metoo, Class, Beauty and Roses
HEATHER O’NEILL is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her work, which includes Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Daydreams of Angels, has been shortlisted …
Prof. Katharine Streip on The Odyssey, Quentin Tarantino, and the Wine Blue Sea
Katharine Streip received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. She has published essays on Marcel Proust, Jean Rhys, Philip Roth, and William S. Burrough…
Sophie Schneideman on Fine and Private Press Books
Sophie Schneideman has been an international rare book and print dealer for over 28 years, serving a long apprenticeship at Maggs Bros, an eminent book firm in Mayfair, and dealing as Sophie Schneide…
Henry Hitchings on the world in Bookshops
Henry Hitchings is an author, reviewer and critic, specializing in narrative non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on language and cultural history. His second book, The Secret Life of Words: How E…
Canada Council on changes to its literary book publishing grant program
I met with members of the Canada Council's Supporting Artistic Practice Program team last month to discuss changes made in 2017 to the literary book publishing grant program. Among other things we ta…
Nigel Roby on The Bookseller magazine
The Bookseller is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry. In 2010 it was acquired from Nielsen by its then Managing Director, Nigel Roby, who is now Chief Executive, Owner and P…
James Daunt on the Turnaround at Waterstones
James Daunt is Managing Director of the Waterstones chain of bookstores in England. Has been since 2011.
We met at the Piccadilly store in London to talk about, among other things, J.P. Morgan, New Y…
Stephen Page, CEO at Faber in dialogue with founder Geoffrey
Stephen Page is the Chief Executive Officer at Faber & Faber.
We met at his offices in Bloomsbury, London, and invited Geoffrey Faber into the room. The three of us talk, among other things, about p…
Will Atkinson on book publishing, the role of Sales and Marketing, and Fluff
Will Atkinson is Managing Director of Atlantic Books, U.K. Prior to this he was, for many years, with Faber & Faber, serving as Director of Sales & Marketing from 2006 to 2014. During this time he sp…
Hannah Knowles on the role of the commissioning editor
Hannah Knowles, Senior Commissioning Editor at Canongate Books in London, tells me what she does. I question her with the help of Geoffrey Faber. We talk, among others things, about track records, T…
Richard Charkin on the challenges facing publishing, Mother Elephants and Codfish
Richard Charkin is a British publishing executive who has worked in the publishing business since 1972. He has held executive positions at Pergamon Press, Oxford University Press, Reed International/…
Anne Fadiman on her father Clifton and The Lifetime Reading Plan
Throughout my twenties I harboured a strong desire to read the Great Books, but it wasn't until I'd finished university and come across Clifton Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan at the now defunct Book…
David Frum on Trumpocracy and Trump: The Novel
Stephen Greenblatt on his book Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of thirteen books, including The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve; The Swerve: How the World Be…
Beowulf Sheehan on photographing authors
"Beowulf Sheehan studied photography at New York University and the International Center of Photography. His childhood love of stories in books and music grew into an adulthood love of storytellers …
Librarian John Shoesmith on Canadian Fine Presses
John Shoesmith is Outreach Librarian at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto, and curator of the 2013 exhibition Death Greatly Exaggerated: Canada's Thriving Small and Fine Press which expl…
Michael Torosian on Photography and his Lumiere Press
Lumiere Press is the private press of Michael Torosian. In the fine press tradition, the books are composed in lead, hand printed and hand bound. The press is devoted exclusively to photography, and …
Michael Lista on Canadian Poetry and Politics
Michael Lista is an investigative journalist, essayist and poet in Toronto. He has worked as a book columnist for The National Post, and as the poetry editor of The Walrus. He is the author of three …
Elaine Dewar on how Canada's best publisher, and its backlist fell into foreign hands
Elaine Dewar – author, journalist, television story editor—has been propelled since childhood by insatiable curiosity and the joy of storytelling. Her journalism has been honored by nine National Mag…
Peggy Fox, former president and publisher of New Directions
Peggy L. Fox is the former president and publisher of New Directions, was Tennessee Williams’s last editor, and is James Laughlin’s literary coexecutor. She lives in Athens, New York, where we met to…