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
Jane Urquhart on Lucy Maud Montgomery
Cory Doctorow on the Future of the Book
Copyright activist, speaker, teacher (how about ’speacher’…or ’spreacher’), columnist, science fiction novelist, short story writer, co-editor of Boing Boing, and the very manifestation of articulate…
Kate Pullinger on her novel The Mistress of Nothing
Kate Pullinger is a novelist who also writes for film and various digital platforms. Born in Cranbrook British Columbia she went to high school on Vancouver Island, dropped out of McGill University, …
Yann Martel on What Stephen Harper is Reading
Listen here as famed author of The Life of Pi and self proclaimed political gadfly Yann Martel absorbs a barrage of punishing jabs I throw at him over his book What is Stephen Harper Reading? and pu…
Larry Thompson on the Process of Letterpress Printing
Larry Thompson established Greyweathers Press several years ago because of a "love of beautifully designed type skillfully arranged on a well-proportioned page."
His original plan was to print lette…
Don Lindgren on Collecting Cooking Books
Researching ‘literary’ Portland (Maine) before trekking down there, I came across mention of Rabelais Book shop. What an interesting concept it’s built upon: the vertical integration of new titles o…
Publisher Tom Doherty on Tor Books
After working his way up through the publishing trade during the 1950s and 1960s, Tom Doherty became publisher of Tempo Books in 1972 and later Ace Books. In 1980 he established his own publishing fi…
Science Fiction Editors David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
David Hartwell has worked as a Science Fiction and Fantasy editor for Signet, Berkley Putnam, Pocket (where he founded the Timescape imprint and created the Pocket Books StarTrek publishing line), an…
Rocky Stinehour on The Stinehour Press
Roderick ‘Rocky’ Stinehour is a very pleasant, accomplished gentleman from Vermont. He’s also recognized internationally as a printer of high repute and a designer of beautiful, scholarly books. His …
Book Artist Claire Van Vliet on the Janus Press
Claire Van Vliet is the owner of the Janus Press founded in 1955 located, since 1966, in Newark, Vermont. Janus Press has to date produced approximately 100 publications — books, pamphlets, and broad…
Galway Kinnell on Poetry
Galway Kinnell was born February 1, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island. He has been hailed as one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century. Educated at Princeton an…
Curator Jerry Fielder on the books of Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) was born in Armenia in 1908. His photographer uncle, George Nakash, brought him to Canada in 1924. After apprenticing in Boston with John H. Garo, Karsh settled in Ottawa in …
Brad MacKay on Doug Wright, Comics and Graphic Novels
David Mitchell on experimenting with the novelistic form
This from the incomparable British Council’s contemporary writers website: Born in Southport in 1969, David Mitchell grew up in Malvern, Worcestershire, studying for a degree in Englis…
Booksellers Joshua and Phyllis Heller on Artist Books
John Bidwell on the Morgan Library's Collection
John Bidwell is Astor Curator of Printed Books and Bindings at thePierpont Morgan Library, before which he was Curator of Graphic Arts in the Princeton University Library. He has written…
Prof. Joseph Khoury on Succession in King Lear and Hamlet
Shakespeare wrote Hamlet before James l came to the throne. Events in the play reflect many of the real world concerns that Englishmen had about being ruled by a foreigner. At the play’s end, Denmar…
Denise Mina on the Crime & Mystery Genre
Terry Griggs on her novel Thought you were Dead
Terry Griggs is the author of a collection of short stories, Quickening, which was nominated for a Governor General’s Award, and two novels, The Lusty Man, and Rogues’ Wedding, shortlisted for the Ro…
Karl Siegler on Talon and Literary Book Publishing
Karl Siegler is a founding member of the Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia and the Literary Press Group of Canada; he has served as president of the Association of Canadian Publisher…