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.
​I booked a room at the Intercontinental Hotel in Montreal through Hotwire a couple of days ago. When I arrived at the hotel the receptionist asked me for a $250 deposit for incidentals. Next morning, without my permission (sure, okay, it’s likely…
My GP took off on me last year. Landed some big gig in Geneva I think. He’s a bright one. Not that I knew him very well. Only met him twice in six years. Anyhow, I went in for my tri-annual (once every three) check-up the other day. The nurse was…
A perceptive devotee of the podcast told me last week that he thought I was an ignoramus.   ‘You don’t think it takes talent to be a photographer (referring to something said during this conversation with Michael Torosian, maker of…
Here is Part ll of my conversation with Michael Torosian featuring his soon to be released memoir/bibliography Lumiere Press: Printer Savant and Other Stories (listen to Part l ). Â This episode gets to the essence of Michael’s book…
Michael Torosian has spent his life taking photographs, interviewing great photographers, and making fine press photography books. He’s in the process of making another entitled Lumiere Press, Printer Savant and Other Stories to commemorate the…
John Metcalf is angry that after working in Canada as a “storyteller, editor, novelist, essayist, and critic” for more than fifty years his books still only sell about 500 copies each. Regardless of this, he’s made a significant contribution to…
In an email I received several months ago, the owners of the iconic Washington, D.C. based independent bookstore Politics & Prose wrote that Mark LaFramboise, their chief book buyer, had died. “Mark was the best book buyer any independent…
 Tom Devlin is a key figure in the world of graphic novels. His career mimics the evolution of the genre. As founder of Highwater Books, a publishing house he set up in the early 2000s, he treated alternative comics audiences in North America to…
Shannon DeVito is ‘s ‘Director of Books.’ We met via Zoom to discuss the roles and duties associated with this intriguing-sounding position. I discovered that they include co-ordinating the relationship between national and local book-buying teams;…
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