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.

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Update frequency: every 7 days
Average duration: 45 minutes
Episodes: 598
Years Active: 2006 - 2025

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Jonathan Kay on how to be a Ghostwriter

Jonathan Kay is a Canadian journalist. He was editor-in-chief of The Walrus magazine, and is a senior editor of Quillette. He was previously comment pages editor, columnist, and blogger for the Toron…

01:01:49 | Tue 19 Apr 2022

Kathryn Schulz on Death and Love, Memoirs and Essays, and

Kathryn Schulz joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2015. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and a National Magazine Award for “The Really Big One,” her story on seismic ri…

00:53:04 | Thu 14 Apr 2022

Larry Grobel on how he writes his short stories

Larry Grobel is a journalist, author and teacher. He has written more than 25 books including Conversations with Capote (which received a PEN Special Achievement award) and The Art of the Interview (…

01:01:32 | Sun 10 Apr 2022

James Wood on his role as a book critic

James Wood is a literary critic, essayist and novelist. He was The Guardian's chief literary critic between 1992 and 1995, and a senior editor at The New Republic between 1995 and 2007. Since roughl…

01:04:07 | Mon 04 Apr 2022

William Taylor on how to sell your books through an auction house

William Taylor Jr. is a cataloger with PBA Galleries, a San Francisco-based auction house for rare books and ephemera; he specializes in fine literature, counterculture and poetry. He's an avid reade…

00:37:16 | Tue 29 Mar 2022

Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut on how he writes novels

Damon Galgut is a South African novelist and playwright. He was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise and shortlisted for the prize in 2003 and 2010 right about the time I first int…

01:08:41 | Wed 23 Mar 2022

Brendan Sherar on Biblio.com's Used Book Marketplace and first ever Virtual Book Fair

Biblio.com started as a price comparison engine for new and used books in 2000. Later, this price comparison engine became SearchBiblio.com famous for several years as the Internet's fastest "metasea…

00:45:31 | Thu 17 Mar 2022

Glenn Horowitz on being a "notorious" bookseller & archives dealer

Glenn Horowitz is an agent in the sale and placement of culturally significant archives to research institutions throughout the United States. Authors, artists, musicians, designers, and photographe…

01:13:55 | Sat 12 Mar 2022

John Sargent on his career in book publishing

John Sargent is an American book publisher; until recently he was the CEO of Macmillan Publishers USA, and Executive Vice President of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group where he oversaw glo…

01:09:54 | Fri 04 Mar 2022

Jerry Kelly on book and bookseller catalogue design

Jerry Kelly is a book designer, calligrapher and type designer. Before starting his own design business in 1998 he was Vice President of The Stinehour Press. Prior to this he worked as a design…

01:07:58 | Mon 28 Feb 2022

Andrew Wylie on being a Literary Agent

Andrew Wylie is an American literary agent. He grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts and attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He has a degree from Harvard University where he studied Rom…

01:06:14 | Tue 22 Feb 2022

Richard Charkin on the measures required to succeed in publishing

Richard Charkin is a British publishing executive. He founded Mensch Publishing in 2018. Prior to this he was Executive Director of Bloomsbury (2007 to 2018). Over the years he has held executive pos…

00:43:43 | Fri 18 Feb 2022

Warren Kinsella on Political Books

Warren Kinsella is a Canadian lawyer, author, musician, political consultant, commentator and sometime painter. He has written for most of Canada's major newspapers and is currently a columnist for t…

00:53:41 | Mon 14 Feb 2022

Steven Heller on the great book designer Alvin Lustig

Steven Heller is an eminent American graphic designer, art director, art critic and scholar. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 books which variously trace the history of typography, …

00:46:59 | Mon 07 Feb 2022

Terry O'Reilly on how to market a book

Terry O'Reilly is a Canadian broadcast producer and personality best known for hosting the CBC radio/podcast programs O'Reilly on Advertising, The Age of Persuasion, and Under the Influence, which to…

00:55:04 | Sun 30 Jan 2022

Margaret Atwood on the non-role of writers

Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, essayist, poet, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. She has written plenty of books, many of them prize-winners. For example, she's won "two Booker …

00:54:43 | Sun 23 Jan 2022

Hermione Lee on life writing, biography and biographers

Hermione Lee was President of Wolfson College from 2008 to 2017 and is Emeritus Professor of English Literature in the English Faculty at Oxford University. She is a biographer and critic whose work …

00:52:17 | Mon 17 Jan 2022

John Burnside on Poetry, Attention and Truth

"After working in computer systems analysis for a decade, John Burnside became a full-time writer in 1994. John has published 14 books of poetry, and has won the Geoffrey Faber Prize, the Whitbread P…

01:09:35 | Mon 10 Jan 2022

Jaleen Grove on Avant Garde Illustration 1900-1950

Jaleen Grove is a Canadian artist and art historian whose area of focus is the history of illustration in the US and Canada. She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design, has written monographs …

01:01:05 | Sat 01 Jan 2022

Steven Heller on graphic designer Paul Rand