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.
Scott R Ferris, is a researcher, writer and specialist in the art of Rockwell Kent (1882-1971). He has conducted many lectures on Kent and has served as curator for a lot of Kent exhibitions.  Here’s a thumbnail of Kent culled from what…
Is failure an inherent part of the writing “enterprise”? Yes, I’d say, this is undoubtedly true. If seen, however, solely as an “exercise” in itself, does this still hold true? I’m not quite so sure. Â These are the axes along which I tread…
Sasha Tochilovsky is a graphic designer, typographer, curator, teacher and head of the at the Cooper Union in New York City. We talk here about one of the greatest creative teams in magazine history: author, editor, publisher and photo-journalist…
Andy Hughes is Senior Vice President of Production and Design at Knopf Doubleday, and I really wanted to know what he had to say. During a recent conversation with Lizzie Gottlieb about her new documentary film Turn Every Page, listen , she mentioned…
Last year when John Duffy, a Canadian political strategist and writer, died at the age of 58, I noticed an outpouring of genuine love, and sadness, on Twitter, along with frequent references to his book Fights of our Lives. It was called one the best…
​I booked a room at the Intercontinental Hotel in Montreal through Hotwire a couple of days ago. When I arrived at the hotel the receptionist asked me for a $250 deposit for incidentals. Next morning, without my permission (sure, okay, it’s likely…
My GP took off on me last year. Landed some big gig in Geneva I think. He’s a bright one. Not that I knew him very well. Only met him twice in six years. Anyhow, I went in for my tri-annual (once every three) check-up the other day. The nurse was…
A perceptive devotee of the podcast told me last week that he thought I was an ignoramus.   ‘You don’t think it takes talent to be a photographer (referring to something said during this conversation with Michael Torosian, maker of…
Here is Part ll of my conversation with Michael Torosian featuring his soon to be released memoir/bibliography Lumiere Press: Printer Savant and Other Stories (listen to Part l ). Â This episode gets to the essence of Michael’s book…
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