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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David Robinson on copyright, book publishing and fair dealing in Canada

David Robinson is executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers. He has been with CAUT since 1999, when he was first hired as director of communications. Prior to joining CAUT, Robinson was the senior economist with the…

Ken Lopez on Vietnam, Book Collecting and Author Archives

is a renowned antiquarian bookseller who deals in rare books, specializing in modern literary first editions. He regularly issues catalogs of Modern Literature and less regularly issues catalogs of Native American Literature, the Literature of the…

Barry Moser, renowned print maker, book illustrator/Designer on his books

In 1967 Barry Moser moved from Tennessee to New England to teach at The Williston Academy in Easthampton, Massachusetts. He was soon introduced to Leonard Baskin with whom he studied at Baskin’s Gehenna Press. In the spring of 1969 Moser was…

Carey Cranston on the American Writers Museum in Chicago

Carey Cranston took on the role of President of the American Writers Museum in September of 2016. Prior to that Carey served for 12 years as President of Fox College, a private career college in Chicago, and prior to that he was a Vice President…

David McKnight on Collecting Canadian Little Magazines and Small Presses

David McKnight is an accomplished librarian and book collector, “imbued with remarkable passion and resolve.” As Director of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML), at the University of Pennsylvania David is responsible for insuring stewardship,…

Levi Stahl on marketing books and how authors can best use social media

Levi Stahl is the marketing director of the University of Chicago Press and the editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald E. Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany.  We met in Chicago to discuss the role of the book marketer, getting books out into…

Wayson Choy on his novel All That Matters and the Immigrant Experience in Canada

Wayson Choy was born in Vancouver in 1939. He spent his childhood in the city’s Chinatown and subsequently attended the University of British Columbia where he studied creative writing. He moved to Toronto in 1962, and taught…

James Pollock on Honest Reviewing, Anthologies and the Power of Poetry

James Pollock is the author of Sailing to Babylon, which was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry, and You Are Here: Essays on the Art of Poetry in Canada,…

Eric Lorberer on Rain Taxi, Literary Events and Literary Calendars

As the editor of Rain Taxi Review of Books, Eric Lorberer is responsible for the voice and style that has brought the magazine widespread acclaim. He is also the director of the Twin Cities Book Festival, has served as a panelist for the…

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