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The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale - Podcast

The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale

 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.

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Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
45 minutes
Episodes
598
Years Active
2006 - 2025
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Matteo Columbo on Falling in Love with Margaret Atwood

Matteo Columbo on Falling in Love with Margaret Atwood

Matteo Columbo is Margaret Atwood's publicist and personal magician at the Ponte alle Grazie publishing house in Italy. We met in Milan to discuss, among other things, the relationship between magic …

00:54:31  |   Mon 22 May 2023
Dan Fridd on the latest in Bookselling Technology

Dan Fridd on the latest in Bookselling Technology

I saw Dan Fridd in action promoting Edelweiss "the book industry's platform to market, sell, discover, and order new titles" at the RISE Bookselling Conference in Prague a few weeks ago and knew I ha…
00:58:51  |   Tue 25 Apr 2023
Maria Hamrefors: Sweden's James Daunt

Maria Hamrefors: Sweden's James Daunt

Maria Hamrefors was appointed chairwoman of the Swedish Booksellers Association in 2019 after a long career in the book industry. Previous positions include CEO of Akademibokhandeln, CEO of Bokus, CE…
00:34:02  |   Tue 18 Apr 2023
Barbara Hoepli on how they love Bookstores in Italy

Barbara Hoepli on how they love Bookstores in Italy

Putin is murdering Ukrainians. Xi is likely perpetrating a genocide on the Uyghurs. He's also threatening to murder Taiwanese, and he's crushing democracy in Hong Kong. Trump is ignoring the rule of …

00:39:22  |   Sun 09 Apr 2023
Jeff Deutsch on a new kind of bookstore and the paradox of the browse

Jeff Deutsch on a new kind of bookstore and the paradox of the browse

Jeff Deutsch is a devoted reader, browser and lifelong bookseller. He's the director of Chicago's iconic Seminary Co-op Bookstores, and has written a book entitled In Praise of Good Bookstores (Princ…
01:11:17  |   Sun 02 Apr 2023
Book Designer Jerry Kelly on what to do once you've written your Manuscript

Book Designer Jerry Kelly on what to do once you've written your Manuscript

I've long been interested in rhetoric, the techniques of persuasive argument, propaganda; the use of passionate language. It's why I collect publishers' sales and bookseller catalogues, I'm sure!    …
00:58:52  |   Thu 23 Mar 2023
Justin Pemberton on how to adapt an 800-page best-seller into a documentary film

Justin Pemberton on how to adapt an 800-page best-seller into a documentary film

About a month ago I watched a documentary entitled Capital in the 21st Century. It was pretty riveting, describing much of what, and how, I've been thinking  over the past few years about the America…
01:06:39  |   Tue 07 Mar 2023
Scott Ferris on Artist and Book Illustrator Rockwell Kent

Scott Ferris on Artist and Book Illustrator Rockwell Kent

Scott R Ferris, is a  researcher, writer and specialist in the art of Rockwell Kent (1882-1971). He has conducted many lectures on Kent and has served as curator for a lot of Kent exhibitions.   Here…
01:01:35  |   Tue 28 Feb 2023
Sasha Tochilovsky on one of the greatest partnerships in magazine history

Sasha Tochilovsky on one of the greatest partnerships in magazine history

Sasha Tochilovsky is a graphic designer, typographer, curator, teacher and head of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at the Cooper Union in New York City. We talk here about one…

01:07:37  |   Tue 14 Feb 2023
Michael Geist on the pathetic argument for extending copyright in Canada

Michael Geist on the pathetic argument for extending copyright in Canada

​I booked a room at the Intercontinental Hotel in Montreal through Hotwire a couple of days ago. When I arrived at the hotel the receptionist asked me for a $250 deposit for incidentals. Next morning…
00:49:48  |   Mon 23 Jan 2023
Richard Charkin on how you too can set up a successful publishing business

Richard Charkin on how you too can set up a successful publishing business

A perceptive devotee of the podcast told me last week that he thought I was an ignoramus.      'You don't think it takes talent to be a photographer (referring to something said during this conversat…
01:09:25  |   Tue 03 Jan 2023
Michael Torosian (Part ll) on How to Interview an Artist for a Book

Michael Torosian (Part ll) on How to Interview an Artist for a Book

Here is Part ll of my conversation with Michael Torosian featuring his soon to be released memoir/bibliography Lumiere Press: Printer Savant and Other Stories (listen to Part l here).   This episode…
00:40:45  |   Sat 24 Dec 2022
Michael Torosian on Photography & making Fine Press Photography Books

Michael Torosian on Photography & making Fine Press Photography Books

Michael Torosian has spent his life taking photographs, interviewing great photographers, and making fine press photography books. He's in the process of making another entitled Lumiere Press, Printe…
01:24:53  |   Mon 19 Dec 2022
John Metcalf on a lifetime of editing and publishing short stories

John Metcalf on a lifetime of editing and publishing short stories

John Metcalf is angry that after working in Canada as a "storyteller, editor, novelist, essayist, and critic" for more than fifty years his books still only sell about 500 copies each. Regardless of …
01:25:50  |   Sat 10 Dec 2022
Anton Bogomazov on Mark LaFramboise and the role of the Bookstore Book Buyer

Anton Bogomazov on Mark LaFramboise and the role of the Bookstore Book Buyer

In an email I received several months ago, the owners of the iconic Washington, D.C. based independent bookstore Politics & Prose wrote that Mark LaFramboise, their chief book buyer, had died. “Mark …

00:40:31  |   Wed 30 Nov 2022
Tom Devlin on the rise of Drawn and Quarterly, and Graphic Novels

Tom Devlin on the rise of Drawn and Quarterly, and Graphic Novels

 Tom Devlin is a key figure in the world of graphic novels. His career mimics the evolution of the genre. As founder of Highwater Books, a publishing house he set up in the early 2000s, he treated al…

01:16:49  |   Tue 22 Nov 2022
Shannon DeVito on her role as 'Director of Books' at B & N

Shannon DeVito on her role as 'Director of Books' at B & N

Shannon DeVito is Barnes and Noble's 'Director of Books.' We met via Zoom to discuss the roles and duties associated with this intriguing-sounding position. I discovered that they include co-ordinati…

00:50:47  |   Mon 14 Nov 2022
Dan Paisner on being the voice of Ivanka, Serena, Whoopi, Denzel and Steve Aoki

Dan Paisner on being the voice of Ivanka, Serena, Whoopi, Denzel and Steve Aoki

Where does editing leave off and ghostwriting begin? How cool is it to pass yourself off as the writer if you haven't done any of the writing? How much recognition do "collaborators" deserve? Should …
01:13:24  |   Mon 07 Nov 2022
Valerie Picard on winning Best Children's Publisher at Bologna

Valerie Picard on winning Best Children's Publisher at Bologna

Earlier this year a tiny Quebec-based children's publishing house, Monsieur Ed, won the prize for Best Children’s Publishers of the Year in North America at the Bologna Book Fair. It won, judges said…

01:03:33  |   Mon 31 Oct 2022
Martha Fleming on Canada's greatest graphic designer

Martha Fleming on Canada's greatest graphic designer

Allan Fleming (1929 – 1977) was a Canadian graphic designer best known for having created the Canadian National Railway logo, for designing the 1967 book Canada: A Year of the Land and for "revolutio…
01:17:13  |   Mon 24 Oct 2022
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