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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 best practitioners inside the book trade and out - from writer to reader. Why listen? The hope is that it will help you to read, write, publish, edit, design, and collect better, and improve how you communicate serious, big, necessary, new, good ideas and stories...

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Andres M. Zervigon on Illustrated Magazines

Jan 9, 2025

I first came across Andrés Mario Zervigón’s (Cuban) name while researching a magazine that filled me with awe the first time I saw it.

AIZ, the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (Workers Illustrated Magazine) is an illustrated, mass circulation German periodical that was published in Berlin during the 1920s and...

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Tony Fekete on Collecting Erotica

Dec 31, 2024

Tony Fekete is a​ book collector who for years specialized in collecting erotica. ​H​e's best known for the catalogue he produced for a Christie’s auction that took place in 2014 that featured highlights from his collection. ​M​ore than 200 books, manuscripts, lithographs and erotic photographs ​w​ent up...

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Siegfried Lukatis on Insel Bucherei, the iconic German book series

Oct 14, 2024

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. Fischer publishing house, due out in 2026.

We met in Leipzig recently...

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Richard Charkin on Lessons Learned from 50 Years in Book Publishing

Aug 27, 2024

Richard Charkin 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 Mensch Publishing. He is former President of The Book Society, the International Publishers Association and the...

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

Aug 20, 2024

 The last time I ran into renowned book scholar Jonathan Rose (at a SHARP conference) 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 groundbreaking and award-winning book, The Intellectual Life of the...

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