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
Wendy Duff on the difference between Librarians and Archivists #20
Wendy Duff is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies. She received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. Her primary re…
Jim Roberts on the Evolution of Bookselling #19
Jim Roberts is the owner of Books End Bookstore in Syracuse, New York. We talk here among other things about salt, the AB Bookman's weekly magazine, the emergence and evolution of book-selling on the…
Tim Parks on Prizes, Awards, Coetzee and Rushdie #18
Prizes are ridiculous. Winners are often poor writers. Short lists are political. The whole world kneels before a bunch of Swedish academics who only read books in translation...
So what does Tim Pa…
Prof. Don Nichol on the History of Book Publishing Copyright #16
Dr. Don Nichol is an English Professor at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada. He has been researching copyright law and its role in the history of writing and publishing for more than a deca…
Fran Durako on her Kelmscott Bookshop #15
Fran Durako is owner of the Kelmscott Bookshop in Baltimore, Maryland. We talk here about her love of William Morris, fine printing and Victorian book illustration, the transition from book collector…
David Gilmour on his novel A perfect Night to go to China #14
Acclaimed Canadian novelist and critic David Gilmour was born in London, Ontario in 1949. His first novel, Back on Tuesday, was published in 1986, followed by How Boys See Girls in 1991 and An Affair…
Martin Levin on the role of the book review editors #13
Martin Levin was for 17 years the popular (particularly at Book Expo Canada where we met) Books Editor at the (Toronto) Globe and Mail newspaper, and, according to Dennis Johnson, founder of MobyLive…
Jamie Byng on Myth and the Art of Publishing #12
Jamie Byng is Publisher at Canongate Books, an independent publishing firm based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Thanks in part to his tireless efforts, and the huge success of its Booker-winning novel Life…
Peter Ellis London-based Antiquarian Bookseller #11
Interview with used antiquarian book dealer Peter Ellis at his shop on Cecil Court Road in London, England.
Paul Muldoon on Poetry #9
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts at Pri…
Derek Walcott on Poetry #8
Nobel Prize winning poet Derek Walcott read at the Blue Metropolis Writers Festival in Montreal several weeks ago. We talk here about England, parents, Ted Hughes, William Blake, combining painting a…
Gill Coleridge on the role of the Literary Agent #7
Gill Coleridge is a partner with Rogers, Coleridge & White, one of the top literary agencies in the world. I spoke with her at the 2006 London Bookfair about how discounting squeezes authors; about t…
Neil Wilson, founder Ottawa International Writers Festival #6
Neil Wilson is a former journalist/broadcaster, future publisher, current long-distance runner and founding director of the Ottawa International Writers Festival, considered "one of Canada's greatest…
Faber CEO Stephen Page on the Role of the Publisher #4
Here is my interview with Stephen Page (unparalleled name for a man in his position) CEO and Publisher of Faber and former British Publishers Association President, conducted hurriedly at the 2006 Lo…
Lexicographer Jonathon Green talks Slang #3
Rap as rebellion, slang as hipness, and jargon as obfuscatory exclusionary pretense. These are topics discussed during my interview with world-renowned slang lexicographer Jonathon Green last month a…
Maggie Knaus on the Rockcliffe Park Book Fair #2
The Rockcliffe Park Book Fair is one of the oldest, biggest, best used-book sales in Ontario, if not Canada. It's a veritable institution. Book dealers travel across the country every year to cash in…
Entrepreneur Kensel Tracy on Self Publishing #1
I’ve known Kensel Tracy for 20 years. We met in 1985 when he was in charge of marketing at the Ottawa-Carleton Tourism Commission and I was Membership Director at the Board of Trade.
I can’t think of…