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Nigel Beale Interviews Professor Kevin Gilmartin: On Critic William Hazlitt Updated: 2010-01-15 13:23:00 Description: Kevin Gilmartin is a professor of English at California Institute of Technology, and visiting professor at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York University in England. He is the author of Print Politics: The Press and Radical Oppos...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Richard Coxford on Fine Press Books: History and Collecting Updated: 2010-01-12 22:15:00 Description: Richard Coxford is the proprietor of Bytown Bookshop in Ottawa, Canada. He has been collecting fine/press books for many years. We talk here about their history, and the joys and challenges of hunting them down. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Rare Book Librarian Richard Landon Updated: 2010-01-11 20:59:00 Description: Richard Landon is Director of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and Professor of English. He has taught courses on aspects of the history of the book and bibliography for many years in the University of Torontoâs Graduate Department of English ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Copyright Expert Bill Patry: On Orphans and Pirates Updated: 2009-12-15 01:46:00 Description: In 1841 Thomas Babington Macaulay observed that âit is good that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews author activist Cory Doctorow: On the Future of the Book Updated: 2009-12-07 03:45:00 Description: Copyright activist, speaker, teacher (how about âspeacherââor âspreacherâ), columnist, science fiction novelist, short story writer, co-editor of Boing Boing, and the very manifestation of articulate dynamism, Cory Doctorow was in ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews 2009 GG Award Winning author Kate Pullinger on: The Mistress of Nothing Updated: 2009-11-26 16:26:00 Description: (last night at Art Matters) Kate Pullinger is a novelist who also writes for film and various digital platforms. Born in Cranbrook British Columbia she went to high school on Vancouver Island, dropped out of McGill University, worked for a yea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews fine press owner Larry Thompson: On the Process of Letterpress Printing Updated: 2009-11-21 00:57:00 Description: established Greyweathers Press several years ago because of a "love of beautifully designed type skillfully arranged on a well-proportioned page." His original plan was to print letterpress ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Author Yann Martel on: The importance of leaders reading fiction Updated: 2009-11-17 11:46:00 Description: Block head? Listen here as famed author of Life of Pi and self proclaimed political gadfly Yann Martel 1) Absorbs a barrage of punishing jabs I throw at him over his latest book What is Stephen Harper Reading? and 2) Punches back at...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Tor Books Publisher Tom Doherty Updated: 2009-11-11 18:02:00 Description: After working his way up through the publishing trade during the 1950s and 1960s, Tom Doherty became publisher of Tempo Books in 1972 and later Ace Books. In 1980 he established his own publishing firm Tom Doherty Associates Inc., with the help of s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews S.F. Editors David Hartwell and kathryn Cramer Updated: 2009-11-09 23:12:00 Description: David Hartwell has worked as a Science Fiction and Fantasy editor for Signet, Berkley Putnam, Pocket (where he founded the Timescape imprint and created the Pocket Books Star Trek publishing line), and Tor (where he headed Torâs Canadian publishi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Rocky Stinehour, Founder, The Stinehour Press Updated: 2009-11-06 19:15:00 Description: Posted in AUDIO Publisher Interviews on October 27th, 2009 Roderick âRockyâ Stinehour is a very pleasant, accomplished gentleman from Vermont. Heâs also recognized internationally as a printer of high repute and a designer of beautiful, sch...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Book Artist Claire Van Vliet Updated: 2009-11-02 12:38:00 Description: Claire Van Vliet is the owner of the Janus Press founded in 1955 located, since 1966, in Newark, Vermont. Janus Press has to date produced approximately 100 publications â books, pamphlets, and broadsides- , many of them designed, illustrated, ty...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Poet Galway Kinnell Updated: 2009-10-15 03:22:00 Description: NB Authors Galway Kinnell was born February 1, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island. He has been hailed as one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century. Educated at Princeton and Rochester Universities, he served in...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Karsh Curator Jerry Fielder Updated: 2009-10-07 17:55:00 Description: Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) was born in Armenia in 1908. His photographer uncle, George Nakash, brought him to Canada in 1924. After apprenticing in Boston with John H. Garo, Karsh settled in Ottawa in 1932, where he began his professional career. By ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Cartoon Historian Brad MacKay Updated: 2009-10-05 20:17:00 Description: Writer, journalist, comic reader, intermittent blogger, and over-tired family man Brad Mackay is the author most recently of a biographical essay which appears in The Collected Doug Wright Volume One (Drawn and Quarterly, 2009). First of a two-...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Author David Mitchell Updated: 2009-10-03 22:17:00 Description: This from the incomÂparÂable BritÂish Councilâs conÂtemÂporÂary writers webÂsite: Born in SouthÂport in 1969, David Mitchell grew up in MalÂvern, WorcesterÂshire, studyÂing for a degree in EngÂlish and AmerÂican LitÂerÂatÂure folÃ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Booksellers Joshua and Phyllis Heller Updated: 2009-09-29 22:56:00 Description: Whatâs the difÂferÂence between a First EdiÂtion, a Fine Press EdiÂtion and an Artistsâ Book? Joshua and PhylÂlis Heller work with me to help define the boundÂarÂies. The two of them estabÂlished Joshua Heller Rare Books, Inc. in...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Morgan Librarian John Bidwell Updated: 2009-09-23 00:13:00 Description: John BidÂwell is Astor CurÂator of PrinÂted Books and BindÂings at thePierÂpont MorÂgan LibÂrary, before which he was CurÂator of Graphic Arts in the PrinÂceton UniÂverÂsity LibÂrary. He has writÂten extensÂively on the hisÂtory of p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Professor Joseph Khoury: on Succession in King Lear and Hamlet Updated: 2009-09-16 01:00:00 Description: Charles H. Cameron as King Lear (1872) / print by A.L. Coburn, ca. 1915, Photo by Julia Margaret Cameron Shakespeare wrote Hamlet before James l came to the throne. Events in the play reflect many of the real world concerns that Englishmen ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Author Denise Mina on: The Crime Mystery Updated: 2009-09-03 17:01:00 Description: Crime novelist Denise Mina is the author of a trilogy of novels set in Glasgow: Garnethill (1998), which won the Crime Writersâ Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger; Exile (2000); and Resolution (2001). Sanctum (2002), is th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Author Terry Griggs Updated: 2009-08-22 17:53:00 Description: Terry Griggs is the author of a collection of short stories, Quickening, which was nominated for a Governor Generalâs Award, and two novels, The Lusty Man, and Roguesâ Wedding, shortlisted for the Rogers Writersâ Trust Fiction Award. She has als...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Author Donald Antrim on Creative Writing Workshops Updated: 2009-08-13 13:50:00 Description: This past Spring at the Blue Met Writers Festival, Donald Antrim conducted a workshop entitled: Fiction and Memoir: "Writing Ourselves" It was designed to explore the âchallenging and often frustrating process of reading into oneâs own...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Author Ha Jin on: The Writer as Migrant Updated: 2009-08-17 18:28:00 Description: Ha Jin was born in China in 1956. After Tiananmen Square, he emigrated to the United States. Unlike most exiled writers Ha Jin was not established in his native language; he had no audience in Chinese, and so chose to write in English. He ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Poet, Typographer, Book Designer Robert Bringhurst Updated: 2009-07-28 17:11:00 Description: JMV Born in Los Angeles in 1946, Robert Bringhurst is an award winning Canadian poet, typographer and author. Perhaps best known for The Elements of Typographic Style â a reference book of typefaces, glyphs and the visual and geometric arrange...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Author A.B. Yehoshua Updated: 2009-07-21 22:59:00 Description: A.B. Yehoshua was born in 1936 to a fifth-generation Jerusalem family of Sephardi origin. His first book of stories, "Mot Hazaken" (The Death of the Old Man) was published in 1962. He was an important member of the "new wave" g...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Author Zoe Heller Updated: 2009-07-19 05:09:00 Description: This from Contemporary Writers: " Zoe Heller was born in London in 1965 and educated at Oxford University and Columbia University, New York. She is a journalist who, after writing book reviews for various newspapers, became a feature wr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Author M.G. Vassanji: On Mordecai Richler Updated: 2009-07-19 05:14:00 Description: M G Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania. Before coming to Canada in 1978, he attended MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, where he specialized in theoretical nuclear physics. From 1978-1980 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Atomi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Margaret MacMillan on How to Write History Updated: 2009-07-10 14:51:00 Description: Margaret MacMillan was educated at the University of Toronto and at Oxford, where she obtained a B. Phil. in politics and a D. Phil. for a thesis on the British in India between 1880 and 1920. Her books include Women of the Raj, Paris 1919: Six Mont...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Author Nino Ricci on Pierre Trudeau Updated: 2009-07-15 20:47:00 Description: Nino Ricciâs first novel, the best-selling Lives of the Saints, won international acclaim and a host of awards, including, in Canada, the Governor Generalâs Award for Fiction and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and in England, the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Author Damon Galgut Updated: 2009-06-04 04:38:00 Description: Credit: book.co.za Damon Galgut is a writer based in Cape Town. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season (1984), when he was seventeen. Small Circle of Beings (1988), a collection of short stories, was followed by The Beautiful ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Open Letter's Chad Post: On Translation Updated: 2009-06-05 04:07:00 Description: Open Letter is the University of Rochesterâs literary publishing house. â It is dedicated to connecting readers with great international authors and their works. Publishing twelve books a year and running an online literary website called Three P...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Author Margie Orford: On Bibliotherapy Updated: 2009-06-14 03:15:00 Description: Crime novelist, film director, childrenâs author and award winning journalist, Margie Orford was born in London and grew up in Namibia and South Africa. She has studied under J M. Coetzee, and worked in publishing with the African Publishe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Bookseller Henrietta Dax, Clarke's Bookshop, Cape Town Updated: 2009-06-17 14:49:00 Description: Clarkeâs Bookshop, the most famous in Cape Town, specializes in selling southern African books to universities and libraries that teach and have an interest in same. Established in 1956 by Anthony Clarke, the Long Street shop today remains much t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Author Meir Shalev Updated: 2009-06-24 20:07:00 Description: Meir Shalev, (pictured above with his sister) one of Israelâs most celebrated novelists,was born in 1948 in Nahalal, Israelâs first moshav. He is a bestselling author in Israel, Holland, and Germany; and he has been translated into more than twe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Stephen Johnson, Managing Director of Random House Struik Updated: 2009-05-21 02:48:00 Description: Stephen Johnson is Managing Director of the recently formed South African publishing firm Random House Struik. We talk here about the merger, the independence of SABC (the state owned South African Broadcasting Corporation), Cartoonist Jonatha...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Author Andre Brink Updated: 2009-05-23 00:07:00 Description: This from contemporary writers: One of South Africaâs most distinguished writers, Andrà Brink was born in 1935. Poet, novelist, essayist and teacher, he began work as a University lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch Literature in the 1960s. He...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Frye Festival Chair Dawn Arnold Updated: 2009-05-10 23:06:00 Description: Dawn Arnold is Chair of the Frye Festival in Moncton, New Brunswick. Jane Urquhart, Wayne Johnston, Neil Smith, Alexandre Jardin and Miriam Toews are among the many authors who will participate in this yearâs ten day event. Dawn and I talk here ab...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Franschhoek Literary Festival Director Jenny Hobbs Updated: 2009-05-12 21:19:00 Description: JENNY HOBBS is a novelist and freelance journalist who lives in Franschhoek, South Africa. She is the author of four novels, Thoughts in a Makeshift Mortuary, The Sweet-Smelling Jasmine, The Telling of Angus Quain, and Video Dreams, four non-fict...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nigel Beale Interviews Pittsburgh Post Gazette Books Editor Bob Hoover Updated: 2009-05-07 20:06:00 Description: Pittsburgh Post Gazette Books Editor Bob Hoover has written about books with the paper for more than 20 years. We talk here, at a noisy diner in the shadow of the Heinz ketchup factory, about the role of a books editor, Pittsburghâs lively l...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Chris Cleave, by Nigel Beale: On Little Bee Updated: 2009-03-23 19:24:00 Description: Chris Cleave was born in London and spent his early years in Cameroon. He studied Experimental Psychology at Balliol College, Oxford, and now writes a column for the Guardian newspaper. His debut novel Incendiary won a 2006 Somerset Maugham...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Priscila Uppal, by Nigel Beale: On Canadian Elegies, and mourning Updated: 2009-03-23 19:28:00 Description: Poet, author, Priscila Uppal, an English professor too at York University, challenges traditional psychological and anthropological models of mourning in her new book We Are What We Mourning: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy, suggesting th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Keith Fiels, Executive Director, American Library Association by Nigel Beale Updated: 2009-02-19 15:06:00 Description: I was in Chicago recently and met with Keith Michael Fiels, Executive Director (since July 2002) of the American Library Association. According to The ALA Constitution the purpose of ALA is ââto promote library service and lib...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Jessa Crispin, Founder, Editor Bookslut, by Nigel Beale. Updated: 2009-02-19 15:12:00 Description: Jessa Crispin is editor and founder of Bookslut.com " a monthly web magazine and daily blog dedicated to those who love to read. We provide a constant supply of news, reviews, commentary, insight, and more than occasional opinions." Autho...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Levi Stahl: On the role of a University Press Publicity Manager Updated: 2009-02-12 02:44:00 Description: A lifelong resident of Illinois, Levi Stahl works at the University of Chicago Press. For the past three years he has maintained a literary blog, Iâve Been Reading Lately. He has written for the Poetry Foundation, the Chicago Reader, the Bloomsbu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with ABC Canada Literacy Foundation President Margaret Eaton, by Nigel Beale Updated: 2009-02-05 23:17:00 Description: Today is Family Literacy Day! Literacy is defined as âthe ability to understand and employ printed information in daily activities at home, at work and in the community - to achieve oneâs goals, and to develop oneâs knowledge and potential.Ã...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Used Bookstore Owner Kathy Stransky, by Nigel Beale Updated: 2009-02-05 23:19:00 Description: Kathy Stransky co-owner, with her husband, of Midway Used and Rare Books on University Avenue in St. Paul Minnesota for the past 27 years, talks about the impact of the Internet, Half Price Books moving in down the street, high tech book scouts, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Rain Taxi Editor Eric Lorberer, by Nigel Beale Updated: 2009-02-05 23:23:00 Description: Mr. Wikipedia tells us: "Rain Taxi is a Minneapolis-based book review and literary organization. In addition to publishing its quarterly print edition, Rain Taxi maintains an online edition with distinct content, sponsors the Twin Cities Book ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Walker Center Librarian Rosemary Furtak, by Nigel Beale Updated: 2009-01-27 00:31:00 Description: Rosemary Furtak has been librarian at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis for 25 year. She is co-curator of âText Messagesâ, an exhibit on artistâs books currently showing (until April 2009) at the Center. We talk here about her early champi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Antiquarian Rare Book Dealer Robert Rulon-Miller, by Nigel Beale Updated: 2009-01-27 00:35:00 Description: <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3115/3159264084_5a94f03d54.jpg?v=0"/></span></span></p><p>&l...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Poet Christian Mcpherson, by Nigel Beale Updated: 2009-01-19 19:39:00 Description: Born, raised and currently resident in Ottawa, Canada, Christian McPhersonâs poetry has appeared in a variety of print and online journals. He has won the John Spenser Hill Award and the Ottawa Public Library Short story Award. We met recently to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with actress Tanja Jacobs, by Nigel Beale: On playing Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days Updated: 2009-01-19 19:42:00 Description: Now Photo By Steve Payne "Tanja Jacobs is a well known actress, director, teacher and coach. She has worked in the professional theatre since 1981, and performed at most major theatres in Canada. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Victoria Glendinning, by Nigel Beale: On Biography Updated: 2009-01-19 20:05:00 Description: Photo by NB Biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist Victoria Glendinning was born in Sheffield, and educated at Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Modern Languages. She worked as a teacher and social worker before becoming an editoria...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Nadeem Aslam, by Nigel Beale Updated: 2009-01-06 20:33:00 Description: Nadeem Aslam was born in Pakistan in 1966, moved to the UK as a teenager and now lives in London. He studied Biochemistry at the University of Manchester, but left to become a writer. His first novel, Season of the Rainbirds (1993) won a Betty...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Ross Raisin, by Nigel Beale Updated: 2009-01-07 21:21:00 Description: Ross Raisin is a young British author born in Keighley, Yorkshire. He has studied at the University of London, worked as a trainee wine bar manager and completed a postgraduate degree in creative writing at Goldsmith's College. His de...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Amitav Ghosh, by Nigel Beale Updated: 2008-12-10 19:44:00 Description: AMITAV GHOSH is one of Indiaâs best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances and The Hungry Tide. Born in Calcutta in 1956 Ghosh studied in Dehra Dun, New Delhi, Alexandria ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Bruno Racine, President, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, by Nigel Beale Updated: 2008-12-16 16:44:00 Description: Bruno Racine was appointed President of the National Library of France on April 2 2007. Over the years he has held many senior postions within the French government including: Director General Cultural Affairs for the City of Paris (1988-1993), Di...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Joe Dunthorne, by Nigel Beale Updated: 2008-12-17 16:29:00 Description: Joe Dunthorne is a graduate of the Creative Writing Masters at UEA, where he was awarded the Curtis Brown Prize. His poetry has been published in Reactions 5, Magma, Smiths Knoll and Tears in the Fence. His work has been featured on Channel 4, BB...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Anne Enright, by Nigel Beale: On what constitutes a good short story Updated: 2008-12-24 06:01:00 Description: This is part three of a series of interviews conducted with three acclaimed short storywriters: Rebecca Rosenblum, Nam Le, and Anne Enright. In each case we riff off those qualities which Flannery OâConnor thought best constituted a good short s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD test Updated: 2008-12-02 18:47:00 Description: <a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/"> My Podcast Alley feed!</a> {pca-b5b78563d48ab47e57f7409ec3bc00dc}...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Junot Diaz, by Nigel Beale Updated: 2008-12-05 22:45:00 Description: Junot DÃaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Poet Michael Lista: Danger and James Joyce Updated: 2008-11-04 16:04:00 Description: Posted in AUDIO: Poets I first heard about Michael Lista in a workshop conducted by Meeka Walsh, Editor of Border Crossings magazine. She raved about him: "Michael is a remarkably gifted young poet who lives in Montreal. He has a spe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: How to Make Paper for Books: Interview with David Curruthers by Nigel Beale Updated: 2008-11-05 13:13:00 Description: Posted in AUDIO:Book People David Curruthers, owner proprietor of St. Armand Papers in Montreal takes us through the process of how he produces paper that is used in the letterpress printing of books. We talk here ( pl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Tips on how to run a successful used book Sale. Interview with Beryl Barr Updated: 2008-11-11 22:08:00 Description: Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library, founded in 1946, is a not-for-profit organization for people interested in books and libraries. Its purpose is to stimulate public interest in the library, purchase library materials, and support other c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Joseph Boyden 2008 Giller Prize Winner by Nigel Beale. Updated: 2008-11-12 04:00:00 Description: Joseph Boyden has just won The 2008 Giller Prize for his novel Through Black Spruce. We talk here about the novel, and the psychic distance Joseph requires to write novels about Northern Ontario and the Cree; the similarities...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Nam Le, Author of The Boat, and winner of the 2008 Dylan Thomas Prize, by Nigel Beale. Updated: 2008-11-15 00:34:00 Description: Nam Le has won this yearâs Â60,000 Dylan Thomas Prize. It recognizes the best young writer in the English-speaking world with the goal of ensuring that the inspirational nature of Dylanâs writing lives on. I met with Nam in Toronto recentl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: What Constitutes a Good Short Story (1): Interview with Rebecca Rosenblum Updated: 2008-11-01 17:45:00 Description: This is part one of a series of interviews conducted with three acclaimed short storywriters: Rebecca Rosenblum, Nam Le, and Anne Enright. In each case we riff off those qualities which Flannery OâConnor thought best constituted a good short story. I...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: What Makes Vampires so Appealing? Interview with Patricia McCarthy by Nigel Beale Updated: 2008-10-10 17:29:00 Description: Patricia K. Macarthy is author of The Crimson Series, three books, to date, about vampires. We talk here about what makes Vampires so appealing to so many people, about their being symbolic of manâs desire for supremacy, womenâs desire to be consumed...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Lindsay Davis, Historical Crime Fiction Author, by Nigel Beale. Updated: 2008-06-18 01:07:00 Description: Lindsay Davis was born and raised in Birmingham, read English at Oxford, then joined the civil service, which she left in 1985.She started writing about Romans in The Course of Honour, the remarkable true love story of the Emperor Vespasian and his m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Miriam Toews, author The Flying Troutmans Updated: 2008-09-18 15:04:00 Description: This from Random House: "Miriam Toewsâwas born in 1964 in the small Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba. She left Steinbach at eighteen, living in Montreal and London and touring Europe before coming back to Manitoba, where she earned a B.A. i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Margaret Visser on The Gift of Thanks Updated: 2008-10-01 19:14:00 Description: Margaret Visser (born May 11, 1940) is a writer/broadcaster who lives in Toronto, Barcelona, and France. Her subject matter is the history, anthropology, and mythology of everyday life. Born in South Africa, she attended school in Zambia, Zimbabwe, F...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Rawi Hage: Deniro's Game, Winner of the 2008 IMPAC Award, by Nigel Beale Updated: 2008-06-11 23:58:00 Description: Rawi Hage was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and lived through nine years of that countryâs civil war. He immigrated to Canada in 1992. He is a writer, a visual artist, and a curator whose debut novel, De Niroâs Game (2006), was shortlisted for the 2006 Sc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Donald Antrim, author The Afterlife Updated: 2008-06-05 07:41:00 Description: Donald Antrim is the author of three novels and a memoir entitled, The Afterlife, which is about the strained relationship he had with his mother, Louanne, an artist, teacher and alcoholic. In addition to receiving some of Americaâs most prestigious ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Glenn Patterson by Nigel Beale: On Belfast, Cities, Disney, Tolstoy and Public Houses Updated: 2008-05-27 20:36:00 Description: Glenn Patterson was born in Belfast in 1961 and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia under Malcolm Bradbury. He is the author of seven novels. The first, Burning Your Own (1988), set in Northern Ireland in 1969, won a Betty Trask...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Author Andrew Miller by Nigel Beale, Updated: 2006-08-14 18:01:00 Description: ANDREW MILLER was born in Bristolâin 1960 (induced, according to the family legend, by his mother eating a large supper of fish and chips). At age eleven, having convincingly failed his Eleven Plus, he went to boarding school in WiltshireâMaster ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Author Tim Winton by Nigel Beale, Updated: 2006-08-14 18:04:00 Description: Australian Tim Winton wrote his first novel, An Open Swimmer (1982), at the age of 19. It won the Australian/Vogel National Literary Award. Born in Perth, in 1960, he is the author of Shallows (1986), a novel set in a whaling town, and Cloudstre...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Crime Fiction Writer James O. Born by Nigel Beale, Updated: 2006-08-14 18:05:00 Description: James O. Born is a Special Agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and author of three best selling crime novels. We talk about his most recent, Escape Clause; about blurbs, putting humour and a human face on the real life experience...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Author Michael Crummey by Nigel Beale, Updated: 2006-08-14 18:07:00 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with AuthorTim Parks by Nigel Beale, Updated: 2006-08-14 18:08:00 Description: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Author Lisa Moore by Nigel Beale, Updated: 2006-08-14 18:08:00 Description: Lisa Mooreâs fiction has been published widely in literary magazines and in anthologies. Her two collections of short stories, Degrees of Nakedness and Open have received praise for their âsupple sensuality and emotional authenticity.â She lives ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Author Ramona Dearing by Nigel Beale, The Biblio File Updated: 2006-08-14 18:09:00 Description: Ramona Dearing lives in St. Johnâs, Newfoundland, and is the latest member of the longstanding (and increasingly famous) fiction collective The Burning Rock to publish a collection of short fiction. Dearing works for CBC Radio where she is current...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Author Illustrator Barbara Reid by Nigel Beale, The Biblio File Updated: 2006-08-14 18:10:00 Description: Barbara Reidâs Plasticine artwork makes her books instantly recognizable. They have won acclaim around the world, and many awards. We talk here about what makes her so good, about great childrenâs book illustrators, the accurate conveyance of emot...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Churchill Bibliographer Ron Cohen by Nigel Beale Updated: 2007-03-23 18:10:00 Description: Ronald Cohen is author of the Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill 3 Volume Set (ISBN: 0826472354) published in 2006: a ârichly annotated workâ containing thousands of entries, with detailed descriptions of each work by Churchill, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Erotica writer Amanda Earl by Nigel Beale. Updated: 2007-03-25 05:36:00 Description: Amanda Earl writes erotic fiction in Ottawa, Canada, as much for her own pleasure as anything else. Her stories have consistently been selected for publication in Carroll and Grafâs annual Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Amanda publishes and writes...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Editor John Metcalf by Nigel Beale. Updated: 2007-04-07 21:16:00 Description: John Metcalf is a highly regarded author who happens to have edited many of Canadaâs foremost short story writers including Lisa Moore, Alice Munro, and Michael Winter. Born in Carlisle, England, and educated at the University of Bristol, he emigra...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Ottawa Librarian Barbara Clubb by Nigel Beale Updated: 2007-04-18 17:38:00 Description: Barbara Clubb is City Librarian and CEO of the Ottawa Public Library, past president of the Canadian Library Association, a member of the International Relations Committee of the ALA/Public Library Association; a director for the Canadian Writers ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Book Designer/ Author C. S. Richardson by Nigel Beale. Updated: 2007-04-19 17:57:00 Description: C.S. Richardson is an accomplished book designer who has worked in publishing for over twenty years. He is a multiple recipient of the Alcuin Award (Canadaâs highest honour for excellence in book design) and a frequent lecturer on publishing, des...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Clock Book Collector Arthur Galwin by Nigel Beale Updated: 2007-04-23 13:23:00 Description: Arthur Galwin has collected clocks for more than 30 years. In so doing he has amassed an impressive reference library of books on the topic. Not driven to collect First Editions, Arthurâs primary motivation has been to cover the waterfront, to pul...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with author/translator Lydia Davis by Nigel Beale Updated: 2007-05-03 15:46:00 Description: Lydia Davis is a contemporary American author and translator of French. From 1974 to 1978 she was married to Paul Auster, with whom she has a son. She has published six collections of short stories, including The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Peter Behrens Interview with Nigel Beale Updated: 2007-05-03 16:41:00 Description: Peter Behrensâ short stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Tin House, Saturday Night, and The National Post and have been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories and Best Canadian Essays. He was born in Montreal and lives on the co...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Elias Khoury Interview with Nigel Beale Updated: 2007-05-10 16:27:00 Description: Elias Khoury is author of eleven novels including Little Mountain and Gates of the City. He is currently professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University, and editor in chief of the literary supplement of Beirutâs daily newsp...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with John Wronoski, Archives Dealer by Nigel Beale Updated: 2007-05-21 17:03:00 Description: John Wronoski is a rare book dealer who specializes in literature, and primary works in the history of ideas in English, German, French, Spanish, and Russian. His shop, Lame Duck Books, contains the most significant selection of 19th and 20th cent...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Bernard Margolis President of the Boston Public Library by Nigel Beale. Updated: 2007-05-24 17:09:00 Description: Bernard Margolis is President of the Boston Public Library (BPL). Founded in 1848, it was the first large free municipal library in the United States. Mr. Margolis has served on the Governing Council of the 63,000-member American Library Association...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with John Freeman, President of the National Book Critics Circle, by Nigel Beale. Updated: 2007-12-13 23:10:00 Description: John Freeman is president of The National Book Critics Circle. Founded in 1974, the NBCC is a non-profit organization consisting of nearly 700 active book reviewers who honor quality writing and communicate with one another about common concerns. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File:Interview with Poet John Burnside by Nigel Beale Updated: 2007-12-16 20:25:00 Description: Poet and novelist John Burnside was born in 1955 in Dunfermline, Scotland. He studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996. His ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Margie Macmillan Granny Bates Books by Nigel Beale Updated: 2008-01-28 15:55:00 Description: Margie McMillan is co-owner of the award winning Granny Bates Childrenâs Bookstore in St. Johnâs Newfoundland. We talk here about longevity and research as a reason for success, the brilliance of Graham Oakley and The Church Mice, the difference b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Patrick McGahern, Antiquarian Bookseller by Nigel Beale Updated: 2008-02-06 02:07:00 Description: Patrick McGahern has been selling books in Ottawa, Canada since 1969. His store specializes in used and rare books: Canadiana, Americana, Arctic, Antarctic, Travel, Natural History & Voyages, Illustrated & Plate Books, Irish and Scottish H...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Kathryn Court, President, Penguin Books by Nigel Beale Updated: 2008-02-06 02:11:00 Description: Kathryn Court joined Penguin Books in 1977 and became Editorial Director two years later. In l984 she was named Editor in Chief of Viking Penguin and in 1992 Senior Vice-President, Publisher, and Editor in Chief of Penguin Books. She was named Pr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Ian Brookes, Editor, Chambers Dictionary by Nigel Beale. Updated: 2008-02-23 23:26:00 Description: Ian Brookes is Editor-in-Chief of The Chambers Dictionary which was first published in 1901 and most recently updated in 2006. We talk here about lexicographers, Samuel Johnson, Scotland, the speed of language change getting quicker, Chambersâ uni...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Ray Hinst, Haslam's Bookstore by Nigel Beale Updated: 2008-02-24 03:42:00 Description: Haslamâs Books, now Floridaâs largest new & used book store, was established in St. Petersburg in 1933 by two avid readers, John and Mary Haslam. After World War II they were joined by the second generation, Charles and Elizabeth. The business...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File: Interview with Author/Bookseller Larry McMurtry by Nigel Beale Updated: 2008-02-24 04:20:00 Description: Novelist, screenwriter and essayist Larry McMurtry is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 novel Lonesome Dove, a sweeping historical epic that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive cattle from the Rio Grande to Montana. He grew u...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File:Author Sally Cooper Updated: 2008-02-28 22:44:00 Description: Sally Cooperâs second novel, Tell Everything,delves into the darkest regions of the human soul, and lends credence to Kiplingâs line: "The female of the species is deadlier than the male." During our conversation about Tell Everythin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Poet/Critic David Solway What makes a Poem Great? Updated: 2008-04-07 01:10:00 Description: In honour of Poetry Month, here is my interview with Canadian poet, critic and more recently, political writer, David Solway. We first discuss what constitutes a great poem in the context of âpoliticalâ and other agendas that some poets incorpora...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Biblio File Interview with Andrew O'Hagan: On Determination, Memoir, Israel, Martin Amis, Islam and Coloured Doors Updated: 2008-05-14 02:22:00 Description: Andrew OâHaganâs most recent novel, Be Near Me, has just won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It is the story of an English priest who takes over a small Scottish parish in a post-industrial town by the sea; a story of art and politics, love and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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