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
Don Lindgren on the importance of bookseller catalogues
Don Lindgren established Rabelais Books in 2006. The bookshop now operates out of Biddeford, Maine and specializes in Artists’ Books, Cocktails, Cookbooks, Farm and Garden, Gastronomy, History of Foo…
Bruce Batchelor on Trafford and the beginnings of Self-Publishing
According to his website, "In 1995, Bruce Batchelor rocked the publishing industry when he invented print-on-demand (POD) publishing and triggered a landslide of new books from every country in the w…
Leonard Marcus on the great 20th century children's books editor Ursula Nordstrom
Marion Sinclair on what Scotland does to help its indie publishers
Conrad Black on his Book Collections and Book Collecting
John Thompson on Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
Ruth Panofsky on Writing Women back into Publishing History
Dwight Garner on Classic 20th Century American Book Ads
Dwight Garner is an American journalist and a longtime writer and editor for the New York Times. In 2008, he was named a book critic for the newspaper. Garner's previous post at The New York Times wa…
Mark Samuels Lasner on Fun, Friendships and Book Collecting
Mark Samuels Lasner is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware Library, and one of the world's great book collectors.
The Mark Samuels Lasner Collection focuses on British literature …
David Frum on why he thinks about Horatio Hornblower every day
David Frum is a Canadian-American political commentator and a senior editor at The Atlantic. He is the author of ten books, most recently TRUMPOCALYPSE: Restoring American Democracy (HarperCollins, 2…
Odette Drapeau on a lifetime of binding books in fish skin and other fabulous fabrics
Odette Drapeau is a leader, educator and innovator in the practice of fine bookbinding. She founded her bookbinding workshop The Headband in Montreal in 1979.
For more than 50 years she has refined …
Anne Giardini on Carol Shields and the new Prize for Fiction
Only seventeen women have won the Nobel Prize for Literature since it started in 1901. That's 17 out of 119 winners. In order to rectify this imbalance, an important new prize has been established. …
Dan Mozersky on setting up Indigo Books in Canada
Dan Mozersky enjoyed a long and fruitful career in Canada's retail book industry. As a founding member of Indigo Books & Music's executive team he was instrumental in turning the company's vision int…
Bill Waiser on how history is written and re-written
Bill Waiser is a western Canadian historian. He has published more than a dozen books– many of them prize-winning. A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905, for example, won the 2016 Governor G…
Matt Dorfman on the best book covers of 2020
Larry McMurtry (R.I.P.) on Book Ranching
Novelist, screenwriter and essayist Larry McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 novel Lonesome Dove, a sweeping historical epic that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive cattle…
Richard Nash on the Business of Literature, Part ll
Richard Nash is a coach, strategist, and serial entrepreneur. He led partnerships and content at the culture discovery start-up Small Demons and the new media app Byliner. Previously he ran independe…
Will Schwalbe on the benefits of reading and talking about books
Will Schwalbe has spent most of his life in publishing: at William Morrow, and then at Hyperion, where he was Editor in Chief. In January 2008 he left Hyperion to found a startup called Cookstr.com a…
Jason Rovito: One of the New Antiquarians
Since 2012, Jason Rovito has been working with institutional and private collectors to grow the documentary value of their collections "because the Cloud forgets." Subject strengths include: the avan…
On The Biblio File Book Club: Is Nick Carraway Gay?
Marc Côté is President of Cormorant Books, a literary publishing house noted for its discovery and development of Canadian writing talent and the publishing of Quebecois fiction translated into Engli…