AIZ magazine specifically, and John Heartfield

is a​ book collector who for years specialized in collecting erotica. ​H​e’s best known for the catalogue he produced for a Christie’s auction that took place in 2014 that featured highlights from his…

Siegfried Lokatis is a retired professor of book history, and former head of the University of Leipzig’s​ Institute for Communication and Media Studies. He is the author of Book ​Covers of the GDR and is currently working on a history of the S….

has held senior posts at many major, and some minor, publishing houses in the U.K. over the past 50 years, including: Harrap, OUP, Pergamon Press, Reed Elsevier, Macmillan, Bloomsbury, and . He is former President of The Book Society, the…

 The last time I ran into renowned book scholar Jonathan Rose () he mentioned that he was doing some work on Playboy magazine. ‘Way more women readers than you’d expect!’ he told me. Rose is an accomplished author. His…

Karen Etingin is the proprietor of L’Affichiste, a vintage poster shop in Montreal. Here’s the scoop: “Working with private, corporate and institutional clients, L’Affichiste deals in vintage posters on a global level. The gallery provides evaluations…

Michael Lista is an investigative journalist, essayist and poet who lives in Toronto. I’ve followed his career now for some fifteen years. He’s written true crime for the better part of a decade. His story “The Sting” is being adapted by Adam…

Boris Wertz joined AbeBooks.com “the world’s largest Internet marketplace for books” in July 2002 after JustBooks, a similar company he’d co-founded in Germany, was acquired by the ABE. This interview took place in 2006.  After five years as…

Ian Birch is “former editorial director of Hearst UK and Emap. He began his magazine career in the late 1970s as a reporter for Melody Maker before moving to Smash Hits where he was assistant editor for three years. His first launch and editorship…