The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale

Hosted ByNigel Beale

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.


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Ruth Panofsky on Writing Women back into Publishing History

Ruth Panofsky is Professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto. She is a leading scholar of the history of publishing and authorship in Canada and Canadian Jewish literature, an award-winning poet and a Fellow of the Royal Society. …

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 was as senior editor of ,…

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. focuses on British literature and art from 1850 to 1900, with an emphasis on the Pre-Raphaelites and writers and…

David Frum on why he thinks about Horatio Hornblower every day

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 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 her work though the innovative use of materials…

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. is “the first English-language literary award…

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 into reality. During the 1990s he served as manager…

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 General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. …

Matt Dorfman on the best book covers of 2020

  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…

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