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Allen and Pat Ahearn on Book Collecting
Allen and Pat Ahearn on Book Collecting
"The Quill & Brush was established in 1976 as an outgrowth of a part-time business run by Allen and Patricia Ahearn ... Read more
21 Jun 2010
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31mins
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Henry Hitchings on the world in Bookshops
Henry Hitchings on the world in Bookshops
Henry Hitchings is an author, reviewer and critic, specializing in narrative non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on ... Read more
4 Feb 2019
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36mins
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Amitav Ghosh on his novel Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh on his novel Sea of Poppies
AMITAV GHOSH is one of India’s best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, The Glass P... Read more
10 Dec 2008
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21mins
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Bookseller Steven Temple on finding lost Canadian literature, and more
Bookseller Steven Temple on finding lost Canadian literature, and more
Steven Temple is an antiquarian bookseller who, after operating shops on Queen Street in Toronto for forty years, moved ... Read more
2 Apr 2019
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #5
Adrian King Edwards on selling Second-Hand & Antiquarian Books in Montreal
Adrian King Edwards on selling Second-Hand & Antiquarian Books in Montreal
Adrian King Edwards is the proprietor of The Word Bookstore near McGill University in Montreal; has been for more than 4... Read more
17 Sep 2018
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47mins
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Founder Emilie Buchwald on Milkweed Editions
Founder Emilie Buchwald on Milkweed Editions
Founded in Minnesota in 1980 by Emilie Buchwald and R.W. Scholes, Milkweed Editions is one of America's leading independ... Read more
30 Oct 2011
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33mins
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John Bidwell on the Morgan Library's Collection
John Bidwell on the Morgan Library's Collection
John Bidwell is Astor Curator of Printed Books and Bindings at thePierpont Morgan Library, before which he was Cu... Read more
23 Sep 2009
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37mins
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Scott deWolfe and Frank Wood on buying & selling used, antiquarian books
Scott deWolfe and Frank Wood on buying & selling used, antiquarian books
"In 1989, Scott deWolfe began selling Shaker books, ephemera, photographs and manuscripts. Frank Wood had been selling u... Read more
15 Nov 2019
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59mins
Ranked #9
Stephen Weiner on the rise of the Graphic Novel
Stephen Weiner on the rise of the Graphic Novel
Stephen Weiner is an award winning writer about comics & graphic novels. He has been writing about comics since 1992... Read more
30 Jul 2018
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25mins
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Mark Kingwell on Glenn Gould
Mark Kingwell on Glenn Gould
Glenn Gould was a world renowned classical pianist and an 'eccentric genius'— a 'solitary, headstrong, hypochondriac vir... Read more
7 Dec 2011
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40mins
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Eric Swanick on Jim Rimmer, graphic designer, letterpress printer
Eric Swanick on Jim Rimmer, graphic designer, letterpress printer
“PRINTING, ILLUSTRATION, TYPE DESIGN, type-founding, type engraving, bookbinding, graphic design, stone cutting and digi... Read more
21 Feb 2012
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15mins
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Roderick Cave on The Golden Cockerel Press
Roderick Cave on The Golden Cockerel Press
The Golden Cockerel Press is one of most important, productive English private presses in the history of fine printing. ... Read more
13 Dec 2010
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38mins
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Tanja Jacobs on playing Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days
Tanja Jacobs on playing Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days
Tanja Jacobs is a well known actress, director, teacher and coach. She has worked in the professional theatre since 1981... Read more
19 Jan 2009
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22mins
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Andre Alexis accuses David Gilmour of Racism
Andre Alexis accuses David Gilmour of Racism
I met with Andre Alexis to discuss his novella, A (BookThug, 2013). During our conversation we hit, among other things, ... Read more
6 Jun 2014
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47mins
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Cheryl Torsney on the urge to collect
Cheryl Torsney on the urge to collect
Whilst in Texas recently I did what all crazed literary tourists do, I checked around for listings of interesting confer... Read more
29 Jul 2011
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10mins
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Terence Byrnes on Photography and the Author Photograph
Terence Byrnes on Photography and the Author Photograph
Through his work as a writer, editor, and photographer, Terence Byrnes came to know and to photograph many Montreal-bas... Read more
10 Sep 2018
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #17
Rae Armantrout on Poetry, Place, William Carlos Williams and San Diego
Rae Armantrout on Poetry, Place, William Carlos Williams and San Diego
Rae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California ... Read more
17 Sep 2014
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23mins
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Sjon on Poetry and Iceland
Sjon on Poetry and Iceland
Born in Reykjavik in 1962, Sjón is a celebrated Icelandic novelist. He won the Nordic Council's Literary Prize for his n... Read more
25 Apr 2018
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #19
Paul Wright on publishing great book history books
Paul Wright on publishing great book history books
Paul Wright was Editor of the UMass Press from 1988 to 2006. He was Executive Editor of the Book Series, “Studies in Pr... Read more
20 Apr 2020
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51mins
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Ron Silliman on Experimental Language Poetry
Ron Silliman on Experimental Language Poetry
This from the Poetry Foundation: "An influential figure in contemporary poetics, Ron Silliman became associated with the... Read more
4 May 2012
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37mins