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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Linda Morra on the Margaret Laurence – Jack McClelland Letters

is a Professor at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec where she teaches Canadian, American, and Indigenous literatures.  She served as the 2016-2017 Craig Dobbin Chair of Canadian Studies at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, and…

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Sandra Campbell on Lorne Pierce, one of Canada’s greatest publishers

Sandra Campbell, a graduate of Carleton and Ottawa Universities, specializes in Canadian and Caribbean (Bermuda) women’s writing, in particular for the period 1880-1940. She has a particular interest in women’s autobiography as well as gender, and the publishing industry. Professor Campbell has taught at Carleton, the University of Ottawa and McGill University, and as a…

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Michel Gauthier on collecting photography books

Michel Gauthier has enjoyed a distinguished career in the field of festival events, tourism and recreation. He was instrumental in coordinating the participation of HRH Princess Margriet of the Netherlands in the 50th Anniversary Celebrations of the…

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Scott deWolfe and Frank Wood on buying & selling used, antiquarian books

“In 1989, Scott deWolfe began selling Shaker books, ephemera, photographs and manuscripts. Frank Wood had been selling used and rare books since the 1970s. Both worked for the Sabbathday Shaker Community in Maine. When the two realized they would make…

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Ray Clemens and Diane Ducharme on the greatest book collector of all time

Earlier this year the Beinecke Library hosted an exhibition entitled . It takes its name from the history of “arrant book-lovers” written by Thomas Frognall Dibdin. “It follows these lovers of the book through four case studies, observing the…

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Interviewing Guru John Sawatsky on how to Interview an Author

John Sawatsky is a Canadian author, journalist and interviewing consultant. Born in Winkler, Manitoba, he attended Simon Fraser University in the late 1960s graduating in political science. He started his career as an…

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Laura Claridge dishes on Blanche & Alfred Knopf

 has written books ranging from feminist theory to biography and popular culture, most recently the story of an American icon, Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners, for which she received a National Endowment…

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Barabara Slate on How to Do a Graphic Novel

is “an artist, cartoonist, graphic novelist, comic book creator, and writer. She is one of the few female artists who has created, written, and drawn comics for both DC and Marvel Comics.” In 1986 Barbara created ‘Angel…

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New CEO James Daunt on what’s next for Barnes & Noble

James Daunt is the founder of the  chain, and since May 2011 has been managing director of the bookshop chain .  In June 2019, he became the CEO of the US bookstore chain , acquired by Waterstones’s parent, Elliott Advisors…

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