THE BIBLIO FILE is one of the world's leading podcasts about "the book" and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging conversations with authors, poets, book publishers, booksellers, book editors, book collectors, book makers, book scholars, book critics, book designers, book publicists, literary agents and other certified bibliophiles.
Some years ago he’d hunted down and later donated to the University of Alberta’s Bruce Peel Library. It was very easy to get caught up in David’s enthusiasm, and I was really . Shortly after our conversation I learned that he didn’t…
Michael Erdman is Head of with overall responsibility for all manuscript holdings in Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Chagatai, Coptic, Hebrew, Kurdish, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and Syriac. I talked with him about my recent magazine hunting…
AIZ magazine specifically, and John Heartfield
is a book collector who for years specialized in collecting erotica. He’s best known for the catalogue he produced for a Christie’s auction that took place in 2014 that featured highlights from his…
Siegfried Lokatis is a retired professor of book history, and former head of the University of Leipzig’s Institute for Communication and Media Studies. He is the author of Book Covers of the GDR and is currently working on a history of the S….
has held senior posts at many major, and some minor, publishing houses in the U.K. over the past 50 years, including: Harrap, OUP, Pergamon Press, Reed Elsevier, Macmillan, Bloomsbury, and . He is former President of The Book Society, the…
The last time I ran into renowned book scholar Jonathan Rose () he mentioned that he was doing some work on Playboy magazine. ‘Way more women readers than you’d expect!’ he told me. Rose is an accomplished author. His…
Karen Etingin is the proprietor of L’Affichiste, a vintage poster shop in Montreal. Here’s the scoop: “Working with private, corporate and institutional clients, L’Affichiste deals in vintage posters on a global level. The gallery provides evaluations…
Michael Lista is an investigative journalist, essayist and poet who lives in Toronto. I’ve followed his career now for some fifteen years. He’s written true crime for the better part of a decade. His story “The Sting” is being adapted by Adam…
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