The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale

Hosted ByNigel Beale

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.


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Siegfried Lukatis on Insel Bucherei, the iconic German book series

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….

Richard Charkin on Lessons Learned from 50 Years in Book Publishing

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…

Book scholar Jonathan Rose on who used to read Playboy magazine and Why

 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 on running a vintage poster shop

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 on writing true crime, and getting optioned

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 on ABE Books

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 on great magazine covers

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…

Paul Wells on Writing Politics for Newspapers, Magazines, Books & Substack

Paul Wells is a leading Canadian political journalist and author. We met at his offices in Ottawa to talk about his impressive career, and his craft writing about politics for newspapers, magazines, books, and now . Topics covered include:…

Christopher Long on the Genius Graphics of Lucian Bernhard

“Lucian Bernhard (1883-1972) was one of the great founders of modern graphic design. In a career spanning nearly five decades in Berlin and New York, Bernhard laid the foundation for a new language of form and communication. His brilliant posters,…

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