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.
Michael Žantovský is a Czech diplomat, author and translator. He is a former Czech Ambassador to the United Kingdom, as well as to Israel and the United States. He has translated more than fifty works of fiction, drama and poetry, mostly by…
John Owen is a bookseller who runs the events program at the English Bookshop at Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus in Berlin. That English Bookshop? Probably the best I’ve ever been in, in my life. We talk about, among other things: being blown away;…
Elisabeth Ruge is a German editor, publisher and literary agent. She currently heads the Elisabeth Ruge Agency which she founded in 2014. In 1994 she established the Berlin Verlag publishing house together with her then husband Arnulf Conradi and Veit…
Jonathan Landgrebe is the publisher of Suhrkamp Verlag. We met at his offices in Berlin to talk about his role as head of one of Germany’s most revered publishing houses, and to riff off Siegfried Unseld’s book The Author and His Publisher. …
Pamela Paul was books editor at the New York Times from 2013 to March 2022 when she became an opinion columnist for the newspaper. We talk mostly about the role that books editors play in the lifecycle of ‘the book.’ I also whine a…
Why listen to James Marsh? Because he knows about love and encyclopedias. He grew up in The Junction district of Toronto surviving a difficult childhood, and began his career in publishing at Holt Rinehart and Winston where he was editor…
Nick Anthony is a writer, stand-up comic, and screen-writer. He’s participating in this year’s Prague Summer Program for Writers and his novel, tentatively entitled Two Hits of Acid in Cambodia, was just workshopped this past week. We talk about the…
Why listen to Alexandra Pringle? Because Richard Charkin told me that she’s the best editor in the English speaking world, that’s why. Alexandra was editor-in-chief at Bloomsbury Publishing for more than two decades. She was recently…
What’s not to like here? Marius Kociejowski is charming, erudite and funny. Why should you listen to him? He’s just written a memoir about the soul of the book trade. What happens in bookstores doesn’t happen elsewhere he says. The multifariousness…
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