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.
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…
I’m in Prague for the Summer. Going to be participating in one of the world’s leading creative writing programs. I interviewed its founder Richard Katrovas. Why listen to Richard? Having run the Prague Summer Program for Writers for more than…
Why did I interview Mark Andrews? Because he’s a fellow Canadian, he’s an exceptional book collector who brings an engineer’s mind to the task, and he’s just published a beautiful book featuring selections from his book collection, entitled The…
Why am I interviewing Mark Samuels Lasner for a third time? Because he’s a recognized and respected book collector who knows how to speak intelligently and amusingly about books. And though we’ve already talked about his impressive collections…
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