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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Will Schwalbe on the benefits of reading and talking about books

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…

Jason Rovito: One of the New Antiquarians

Since 2012, has been working with institutional and private collectors to grow the documentary value of their collections “because the Cloud forgets.” Subject strengths include: the avant-garde, design, the human sciences, and visual culture …

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Richard Ovenden on the fragility and importance of Libraries

Richard Ovenden ​has been ​Bodley’s Librarian (the senior executive position of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) since 2014. ​He is a ​ Fellow​ at the​ Society of Antiquaries and Royal Society of Arts; ​a ​​member​…

Dan Mozersky on how to build a successful chain of bookstores

Dan Mozersky enjoyed a long and fruitful career in the 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 ( we talk about this in Part ll of our…

Mary Newberry on the Joys of Indexing. Yes, Indexing.

is a Toronto-based freelance editor, indexer, and teacher. Her early passion was dancing. The self-discipline she learned from it is today one of her greatest assets. She works mostly with humanities-related texts: academic, government, literary,…

Jonathan A. Hill on the importance of bookseller catalogues

The son of prominent book collector Kenneth E. Hill, Jonathan A. Hill grew up in a house filled with old books.  After graduating from university in 1974 he served a classic apprenticeship, working for four leading antiquarian booksellers in San…

Book Collector Miriam Borden on rescuing the Yiddish language

Miriam Borden, a teacher of Yiddish and PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto, is winner of the 2020 for “Building a Nation of Little Readers: Twentieth-Century Yiddish Primers and Workbooks for Children.” Borden collects twentieth-century…

Martin Latham on The Bookseller’s Tale

Martin Latham has been a bookseller for thirty-five years. He has a PhD in Indian history, and taught at Hertfordshire University before turning to bookselling. He is proud to be responsible for the biggest petty-cash claim in Waterstones’ history,…

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