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The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale

THE BIBLIO FILE is a podcast about "the book," and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging, long-form conversations with authors, poets, book pu... Read more

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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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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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Amitav Ghosh on his novel Sea of Poppies

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Bookseller Steven Temple on finding lost Canadian literature, and more

Bookseller Steven Temple on finding lost Canadian literature, and more

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Adrian King Edwards on selling Second-Hand & Antiquarian Books in Montreal

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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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Founder Emilie Buchwald on Milkweed Editions

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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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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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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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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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Mark Kingwell on Glenn Gould

Mark Kingwell on Glenn Gould

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7 Dec 2011

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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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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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Tanja Jacobs on playing Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days

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19 Jan 2009

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Andre Alexis accuses David Gilmour of Racism

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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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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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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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Rae Armantrout on Poetry, Place, William Carlos Williams and San Diego

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Rae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California ... Read more

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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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Paul Wright on publishing great book history books

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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

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Ron Silliman on Experimental Language Poetry

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This from the Poetry Foundation: "An influential figure in contemporary poetics, Ron Silliman became associated with the... Read more

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