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
Daniel Mendelsohn on the Role of the Critic
Daniel Mendelsohn "is an internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist, and translator. Born in New York City in 1960, he received degrees in Classics from the University of Virginia and Princ…
Michael Cader with evergreen advice for Book Publishers
Fifteen years ago I interviewed Michael Cader at Book Expo in Toronto. The advice he had for publishers at the time remains remarkably fresh and valuable. Michael is the founder of Publisher's Lunch,…
Bill Matthews on his life in books, mostly on the West Coast
Don Stewart on MacLeod's, his iconic Vancouver bookshop
Falk Eisermann on finding and cataloguing all of the Incunabula in the World
Dr Falk Eisermann is head of the Incunabula Division at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and is considered a world expert in the field. He also heads the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (Union catalogue…
Dan Morgan on Czech Modernist Book Design
Emma Sarconi on judging the excellence of Library Exhibition Catalogues
Publisher Jordi Nadal on reading, writing, publishing & living
Paul Delaney on writing the life of book designer Charles Ricketts
Extraordinary Canadians: Andrew Coyne on his father James Elliott Coyne
Andrew Steeves on designing books at Gaspereau Press
Michele K. Troy on The Albatross Press and the Third Reich
Michele K. Troy is professor of English at Hillyer College at the University of Hartford. She studies Anglo-American literary modernism in continental Europe and is the author of Strange Bird: The Al…
Steve Lomazow: the world's greatest collector of American magazines
Since 1972, Dr. Steven Lomazow has been building a collection of important American periodicals; it's now considered to be the most extensive in private hands.
Heather O'Neill picks Agota Kristof's The Notebook
On this episode of The Biblio File Book Club Heather O'Neill and I discuss one of her favourite novels, Agota Kristof's The Notebook.
This dark, fractured fairy tale of a story, told in simple, stri…
Aimee Peake on Selling Antiquarian Books on the Prairies
Ken Whyte and Jack David on the lessons of Canadian Book Publishing
Stephen Enniss on the Relationship between Collectors and Rare Book Libraries
Dr. Stephen Enniss is Director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He has held previous appointments at the Folger Shakespeare Library and at Emory University’s Rare Book…
Meghan Constantinou with the goods on private library catalogues
Justin Schiller on Building the Greatest Children's Book Collections in the World
One of the best ways to become a successful, fulfilled antiquarian bookseller is to establish close, long-lasting relationships with enthusiastic, committed, ideally well-heeled, collectors. Justin S…
