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.
Mark Samuels Lasner is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware Library, and one of the world’s great book collectors. focuses on British literature and art from 1850 to 1900, with an emphasis on the Pre-Raphaelites and writers and…
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, 2020). His first book, Dead Right, won praise from William…
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 her work though the innovative use of materials…
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. is “the first English-language literary award…
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 into reality. During the 1990s he served as manager…
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 General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. …
 is an internationally recognized designer and illustrator. He is the art director of the New York Times Book Review and former art director of the New York Times Op-Ed page. Additionally, he maintains a one-person office specializing in work…
 is a coach, strategist, and serial entrepreneur. He led partnerships and content at the culture discovery start-up and the new media app Byliner. Previously he ran independent publishers Soft Skull Press and Red Lemonade where he published…
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 and ran that for six years. It’s now part of Macmillan Publishers, where he…
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