May 30, 2021
Conrad Black - in full,
Conrad Moffat Black, Lord Black of Crossharbour - was born in 1944,
in Montreal. He is an author, columnist, historian, and businessman
who built the third largest newspaper group in the world during the
1980s and 1990s. At its height the organization controlled nearly
250 newspapers including...
May 22, 2021
John Brookshire
Thompson is a British sociologist, a professor at
the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Jesus College. His
work over the past two decades has focused particularly on the
publishing industry. Books in the Digital Age: The
Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in
Britain and...
May 18, 2021
Ruth Panofsky is
Professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto. She is a
leading scholar of the history of publishing and authorship in
Canada and Canadian Jewish literature, an award-winning poet and a
Fellow of the Royal Society.
We met via Zoom to discuss her most
recent book Toronto
Trailblazers: Women in...
May 10, 2021
Dwight Garner is an American journalist and a longtime writer and editor for the New York Times. In 2008, he was named a book critic for the newspaper. Garner's previous post at The New York Times was as senior editor of The New York Times Book Review, where he worked from 1999 to 2008. He was a founding editor of
May 3, 2021
Mark Samuels Lasner is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware Library, and one of the world's great book collectors.
The Mark Samuels Lasner Collection focuses on British literature and art from 1850 to 1900, with an emphasis on the Pre-Raphaelites and writers and illustrators of the 1890s. It comprises...