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
Ivan Klima on his memoir My Crazy Century
I met with famed Czech writer/novelist Ivan Klima at his home in Prague to talk about his memoir My Crazy Century. Topics covered include the criminal conspiracy of communism, the impact on his life…
Guy Baxter on the Archive of British Publishing and Printing
Guy Baxter has been University Archivist at University of Reading since 2008. His responsibilities include caring for the Archive of British Publishing and Printing, the archives of the Museum of En…
John Cole on the history of the Library of Congress
Historian John Cole started working at the Library of Congress as a young man in 1966. Most of his books since have dealt with this venerable institution.
We talk here about it's influence on America…
Stephan Delbos on Prague and Poetry
Stephan Delbos is a New England-born writer living in Prague, where he teaches at Anglo-American University and Charles University. His poetry, essays and translations have appeared internationally i…
Jean Louis Maitre on Printing and Typographie in Tours, France
Series: Biblio File in France
Better known for its wines, the perfection of its local spoken French, it's cathedral and chateau, the city of Tours France also has a surprisingly rich historical conne…
Lauren Elkin on her book Flaneuse
I interviewed Lauren Elkin about her new book Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London at her apartment in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris. Stepping off a rat…
Jo Furber on Dylan Thomas and why you should visit Wales
Yes, the background voices are distracting, but what do you expect, we're in a Welsh pub for crying out loud! Well, actually we're upstairs at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea at a bar surrounded b…
David Esslemont on Thomas Bewick, Wood Engraver
Wikipedia tells us that "Thomas Bewick (1753 – 1828) was an English engraver and author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving , making the wood blocks for advertisement…
Gaylord Schanilec on his press Midnight Paper Sales
Gaylord Schanilec is an American wood engraver, printer, designer and illustrator. He is the proprietor of Midnight Paper Sales press.
Schanilec has "set the standard for contemporary artist’s books …
David Esslemont on the history of the Gregynog and Solmentes Presses
David Esslemont is an artist, designer, printmaker and bookbinder. He makes books from scratch, most recently about food, and publishes under his Solmentes Press imprint. He was Artistic Director of …
Margaret Atwood on The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, Harvard and Kingston
In which I talk, in rather rushed fashion, to great Canadian author and "bad" feminist Margaret Atwood about literary tourism: 'place' and her novel MaddAddam, Harvard and The Handmaid's Tale, and th…
Prof. Maggie Hennefeld on Satire in the Age of Trump
November 30, 2017 marked the 350th anniversary of the birth of one the world's great satirists, Jonathan Swift. To honour the occasion I thought it would be fitting to interview an expert on humour, …
Scott Griffin on his memoir My Heart Is Africa
Scott Griffin, (born 1938) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2000, one of the world's most generous poetry awards, and 'Poetry In Voice'…
Publisher Simon Dardick on Vehicule Press
I met with publisher Simon Dardick at his home office in Montreal to talk about the history and collecting of his long-running literary publishing house Vehicule Press.
Glenn Dixon on Musical Tourism
Glenn Dixon has published two books. Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A journey through the 6000 languages of Earth was published in 2009 to rave reviews. His second, Tripping the World Fantastic: A …
Marcello Di Cintio on his Literary Pilgrimage to Iran
Marcello Di Cintio is a Canadian writer. He won the 2012 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book Walls: Travels Along the Barricades. The award was handed out on March 6, 2013 at t…
Rae Armantrout on Poetry, Place, William Carlos Williams and San Diego
Rae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. She has published more than 10 books of poetry and ha…
Michael & Winifred Bixler on Letterpress Printing and Monotype
The Press & Letterfoundry of Michael & Winifred Bixler is "devoted to the craft of fine letterpress printing and traditional book typography. Our extensive collection of English Monotype matrices all…
David Mason on his memoir The Pope's Bookbinder
I met with David Mason in Kingston to talk about his memoir The Pope's Bookbinder. As the Biblioasis website wordsmiths have it:
"From his drug-hazy, book-happy years near the Beat Hotel in Paris and…
Matthew Tree on the Best Literary Things to do in Barcelona
Matthew Tree (born December 30, 1958) is a writer in English and Catalan. He has lived in Barcelona since 1984. Apart from publishing both fiction and non-fiction, he is a contributor to various news…