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.
James Wood is a literary critic, essayist and novelist. He was The Guardian’s chief literary critic between 1992 and 1995, and a senior editor at The New Republic between 1995 and 2007. Since roughly that time he’s taught the Practice of…
William Taylor Jr. is a cataloger with PBA Galleries, a San Francisco-based auction house for rare books and ephemera; he specializes in fine literature, counterculture and poetry. He’s an avid reader, and a prolific writer. His first book of fiction…
Damon Galgut is a South African novelist and playwright. He was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise and shortlisted for the prize in 2003 and 2010 right about the time I first interviewed him at his apartment in Cape Town ()….
Biblio.com started as a price comparison engine for new and used books in 2000. Later, this price comparison engine became SearchBiblio.com famous for several years as the Internet’s fastest “metasearch” site for books. In the summer of 2003…
Glenn Horowitz is one of America’s leading antiquarian booksellers and brokers of literary archives. He has sold major private collections of writers such as Eve Babitz, James Joyce, Jack Kerouac and Vladimir Nabokov, and brokered the…
John Sargent is an American book publisher; until recently he was the CEO of Macmillan Publishers USA, and Executive Vice President of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group where he oversaw global trade operations; he was also responsible…
Jerry Kelly is a​ ​book designer, calligrapher​ ​and type designer. Before starting his own design business in 1998 ​he was Vice President of The Stinehour Press​. Prior to this he worked as a designer at A. Colish….
Andrew Wylie is an American literary agent. He grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts and attended St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. He has a degree from Harvard University where he studied Romance Languages & Literatures.  …
Richard Charkin is a British publishing executive. He founded Mensch Publishing in 2018. Prior to this he was Executive Director of Bloomsbury (2007 to 2018). Over the years he has held executive positions at Pergamon Press, Oxford University Press,…
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