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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Mitchell Kaplan on successful bookselling and turning books into films

Miami native Mitchell Kaplan is the owner/founder of , one of the premier independent bookstore groups in the United States, and a respected leader in the book business. Along with Eduardo J. Padrón, president of Miami-Dade College (MDC), he…

Madeleine Thien on her novel Certainty

This is one of the very earliest Biblio File interviews. Please excuse the audio. (Listening to it – I’m embarrassed to learn that I wasn’t able to read all of Certainty before conducting the interview – despite not having had much time to prepare…

Sydney Smith on writing & illustrating children’s books

was born in rural Nova Scotia and started drawing at an early age. Since graduating from NSCAD University, he has illustrated numerous children’s books, including the highly acclaimed wordless picture book Sidewalk Flowers, conceived by Jon Arno…

Blake Gopnik on his big, beautiful, new biography of Andy Warhol

is an American/Canadian art critic who has lived in New York City since 2011 writing about art for Newsweek, the Daily Beast, The New York Times and others. From 2000 to 2010 he was chief art critic at The Washington Post, prior to which he was arts…

Don Gillmor on his memoir To the River, and what it’s like to lose a brother to suicide

Helene Atwan on the Beacon Press and its social justice mission

“Helene Atwan is the Director of , an independent non-profit book publisher founded in 1854. She began her publishing career in 1976 at Random House in New York as an assistant editor in their College Division, before moving to Alfred A. Knopf in…

David Gilmour and I gush over Truman Capote’s short story Mojave

David Gilmour is a Canadian novelist and former television journalist and film critic.     Born in London, Ontario, Gilmour later moved to Toronto for schooling. He is a graduate of Upper Canada College and…

Paul Wright on publishing great book history books

Paul Wright was Editor of the UMass Press from 1988 to 2006.  He was Executive Editor of the Book Series, “Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book,” from 1994–2006.  From 1985 to 1988 he was Assistant to the Chancellor of…

Stephanie Burt on poetry and being trans

Stephanie Burt is a literary critic and poet who is Professor of English at Harvard University and a transgender activist. The New York Times has called her “one of the most influential poetry critics of [her] generation”. Burt grew up near…

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