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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Emilio Gil on the History of Modern Spanish Book Design

Emilio Gil is a graphic designer, and founder of Tau Design a firm that pioneered design services, institutional communications, and the creation and development of visual corporate identity programs in Spain.  He trained at the SVA (School of…

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Curator Lucy Mulroney on the Grove Press

Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985 was a major exhibition about the Grove Press that ran at the Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library in Syracuse. Grove was founded by Barney Rosset in 1951 and is one of the world’s…

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Interview with Australian Poet Mark Tredinnick

Mark Tredinnick, winner of the Montreal Poetry Prize (2011) and the Cardiff Poetry Prize (2012), is the author of The Blue Plateau, Fire Diary, and nine other acclaimed works of poetry and prose. He lives in the highlands southwest of Sydney,…

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Maurice Podbrey on producing Waiting for the Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel  written by the South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. Published in 1980 it won the James Tait Black Memorial and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prizes for fiction. The book’s title comes from a poem by…

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Michael Lista on Ethics and Honesty in Poetry Reviews

I met with Canadian poet/critic Michael Lista several months ago to discuss the state of poetry reviewing in Canada, the need for honesty in criticism, and his take on poet/philosopher Jan Zwicky’s essay “The Ethics of the Negative Review,” in…

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Robert Fowler on al-Qaeda, Mali, Newtown and Terrorism

Robert Fowler has had a distinguished career as a Canadian diplomat and public servant.  From 1989 – 1995 he was deputy minister of National Defence; from 1995 – 2000, Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, and, following that, ambassador to…

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Corey Redekop on his novel Husk, and zombies

 Corey Redekop has been many things: “actor, waiter, disc jockey, cameraman, editor, lawyer (almost), and now the fabled trifecta of publicist/librarian/author. His debut novel, Shelf Monkey, is either a work of insane genius or an intolerable…

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Laurie Lewis on Book Design and the University of Toronto Press

Laurie Lewis began her publishing career in New York City with Doubleday in the early 60s, acting as liaison between the book design  and printing departments. In 1963 she moved to Toronto and joined the University of Toronto Press. When Allan…

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Ross King on Leonardo and the Last Supper

According to his website, Ross King is “the bestselling author of six books on Italian, French and Canadian art and history. He has also published two historical novels, Domino (1995) and Ex-Libris (1998), and edited a collection of Leonardo da…

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