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
Anne-Solange Noble on selling English Language Rights for books published by Gallimard
Anne-Solange Noble has been International Rights Manager at Gallimard since 1992. She was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and graduated from McGill University in Hispanic Literature. After spendi…
Bill Samuel on William and Christina Foyle
Lifted from Bill Samuel's website:
Itinerant one-time chartered accountant who has lived in Denmark, East Africa, the Gulf (Arabian/Persian, not Texan) and the Caribbean with shorter stints in Easter…
John Freeman on Lit Hub, Editing, & Interviewing Authors
Are Libraries ripping off Publishers and Authors? Ken Whyte thinks so
Kenneth White is the founder of Sutherland House Books. He is the former editor-in-chief of Saturday Night Magazine, the founding editor of The National Post, and the former editor and publisher of M…
Is Canadian Publishing Racist? Jael Richardson thinks so
Jael Richardson is the author of The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lesson, a Father’s Life, a memoir exploring her relationship with her father, CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey. It was adapted into a child…
Pierre Assouline on Gaston Gallimard, the great French publisher
Maylis Besserie on the story of her Goncourt Prize-winning First Novel
After graduating from university in 2005 Maylis Besserie began teaching documentary production at the Institute of Communications and Media in Paris, and joined France Culture as a radio producer an…
John Oakes on Grove Press Publisher Barney Rosset
'Barnet Lee "Barney" Rosset, Jr. (1922 – 2012) was owner of the Grove Press publishing house and publisher and editor-in-chief at the Evergreen Review. He led a successful legal battle to publish th…
Chair Jacques Shore on launching Library & Archives Canada's new Foundation
Richard Nash on the Business of Literature, Part l
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…
David Frum on Donald Trump eating Crocodiles
Peter Florence on Hay Festival's huge 2020 on-line success
Mark Bourrie on his book Bushrunner: The Adventures of Pierre Radisson
Ian Wilson on Arthur Doughty & his monumental publishing achievement
Larry Grobel on interviewing authors for Playboy (and Podcasts)
Larry Grobel is the author of more than 25 books - including Conversations with Capote (which received a PEN Special Achievement award), and Talking with Michener. He has been a freelance writer for …
Jonathan Rose on Reading, Oprah, Playboy, Cancel Culture & Much More
Jonathan Rose is the William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. His fields of study are British history, intellectual history and the history of the book. He was the founding president…
Reni Eddo-Lodge on how to eliminate Systemic Racism
Leslie Weir on a brand new Library & Archives Canada
David Schurman on Bloomsday Celebrations
Of course Dublin is where the biggest Bloomsday Festival takes place each on June 16th, with celebrations set in many of the "original sites" sited in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. But did you know th…
Paul Litt on 20th Century Canadian Book Publishing Policy
Paul Litt is a historian of public life in late twentieth-century Canada. His research explores the cultural workings of modern Canadian mass democracy focusing on the media, the politics of image, t…