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
Nora Krug on vigilantly illustrating Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny
I first became aware of the graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's book On Tyranny during a visit to the National Socialist Documentation Centre museum in Munich about a year ago (revel in the backstory…
01:14:33 |
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Jiri Nenicka on Samizdat and Resisting Totalitarian Censorship
Libri Prohibiti is a nonprofit, independent, archival research library located in Prague, Czech Republic that collects samizdat and exile literature. Founded by Jiri Gruntorad after the fall of the c…
00:52:50 |
Mon 26 Sep 2022
Naomi Bacon on Marketing Books on Social Media
Naomi Bacon is a seasoned book marketer, and founder of The Tandem Collective. She has worked with JK Rowling’s agency, The Blair Partnership, as well as Pottermore, Pan Macmillan, Penguin and Hachet…
00:52:34 |
Sun 18 Sep 2022
Michael Zantovsky on Vaclav Havel and writing the biography of a close friend
Michael Žantovský is a Czech diplomat, author and translator. He is a former Czech Ambassador to the United Kingdom, as well as to Israel and the United States. He has translated more than fifty work…
00:49:36 |
Mon 12 Sep 2022
John Owen on the best bookshop I've ever been in, in my life
John Owen is a bookseller who runs the events program at the English Bookshop at Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus in Berlin. That English Bookshop? Probably the best I've ever been in, in my life. We ta…
01:05:56 |
Mon 05 Sep 2022
Elisabeth Ruge, Germany's leading literary agent
Elisabeth Ruge is a German editor, publisher and literary agent. She currently heads the Elisabeth Ruge Agency which she founded in 2014. In 1994 she established the Berlin Verlag publishing house to…
00:59:40 |
Sat 27 Aug 2022
Jonathan Landgrebe on Suhrkamp Verlag, Germany's Faber & Faber
Jonathan Landgrebe is the publisher of Suhrkamp Verlag. We met at his offices in Berlin to talk about his role as head of one of Germany's most revered publishing houses, and to riff off Siegfried Un…
01:09:07 |
Fri 19 Aug 2022
Pamela Paul on her role as books editor at The New York Times
Pamela Paul was books editor at the New York Times from 2013 to March 2022 when she became an opinion columnist for the newspaper. We talk mostly about the role that books editors play in the life…
01:11:27 |
Sat 13 Aug 2022
James Marsh on making love and encyclopedias
Why listen to James Marsh? Because he knows about love and encyclopedias. He grew up in The Junction district of Toronto surviving a difficult childhood, and began his career in publishing at Holt…
00:48:19 |
Sun 07 Aug 2022
Nick Anthony on why he's workshopping his controversial first novel
Nick Anthony is a writer, stand-up comic, and screen-writer. He's participating in this year's Prague Summer Program for Writers and his novel, tentatively entitled Two Hits of Acid in Cambodia, was …
00:55:30 |
Fri 15 Jul 2022
Alexandra Pringle on arm-hair and other secrets to great editing
Why listen to Alexandra Pringle? Because Richard Charkin told me that she's the best editor in the English speaking world, that's why. Alexandra was editor-in-chief at Bloomsbury Publishing for mor…
00:50:31 |
Mon 11 Jul 2022
Marius Kociejowski reflects on the Soul of the Book Trade
What's not to like here? Marius Kociejowski is charming, erudite and funny. Why should you listen to him? He's just written a memoir about the soul of the book trade. What happens in bookstores doesn…
01:10:13 |
Mon 04 Jul 2022
Richard Katrovas on Creative Writing Programs and Publishing First Books
I'm in Prague for the Summer. Going to be participating in one of the world's leading creative writing programs. I interviewed its founder Richard Katrovas.
Why listen to Richard? Having run the Pra…
00:57:18 |
Sun 26 Jun 2022
Mark Andrews on Collecting Books about the Science and Engineering of Water
Why did I interview Mark Andrews? Because he's a fellow Canadian, he's an exceptional book collector who brings an engineer's mind to the task, and he's just published a beautiful book featuring sele…
01:03:02 |
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Mark Samuels Lasner on book collecting, after the dopamine
Why am I interviewing Mark Samuels Lasner for a third time? Because he's a recognized and respected book collector who knows how to speak intelligently and amusingly about books. And though we've al…
00:42:31 |
Mon 13 Jun 2022
Kat McKenna on how Tik Tok's BookTok sells books
I came across Kat McKenna's name in an article written by Alison Flood in The Guardian last year. I'd googled Tik Tok's "Book-Tok" because I'd heard it was moving a lot of YA books and wanted to lea…
00:48:42 |
Mon 30 May 2022
Stephen Enniss on special collections libraries and value
Stephen Enniss is director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin. Previous posts include Head Librarian at the Folger Shakespeare Library and Director of Emory University's …
01:00:01 |
Tue 24 May 2022
Sarah Miniaci on how to publicize a book in 2022
Sarah Miniaci is a freelance book publicist with fifteen years of experience in the New York and Toronto markets. Ken Whyte's Sutherland House is one of her clients. Ken interviewed Sarah for a recen…
01:09:03 |
Sat 14 May 2022
Stuart Kells reveals the truth about Allen Lane and Penguin Books
Author/historian Stuart Kells has been chasing rare books and other bookish treasures since childhood. In the 1980s he went for classic sci-fi paperbacks from Ace and Dell, and authors such as Philip…
01:13:34 |
Tue 03 May 2022
Laura J. Miller updates us on Reluctant Capitalists her book on bookselling
Over the past half-century, bookselling, like many retail sectors, has evolved from an business dominated by independent bookstores to one in which chain stores have significant market share. This tr…
00:52:33 |
Mon 25 Apr 2022
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