Nov 15, 2023
James Daunt calls him "the best of the best in U.K. publishing, constantly challenging the industry to move on when it drags its feet." Listen to my conversation with Andrew Franklin to learn why.
Nov 15, 2023
Here’s how the Carcanet Press website describes him: Michael Schmidt FRSL, poet, scholar, critic and translator, was born in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among his many publications are several collections of poems and a novel, The Colonist (1981), about...
Oct 8, 2023
Andrew Nash is Reader in Book History at the Institute of English Studies, University of London (a leading book history scholar in other words) and Director of the London Rare Books School.
We sat down in the stacks at the Mark Longman "Books about Books" Library at the University of Reading (well, actually the Museum...
Sep 14, 2023
Sir Tim Waterstone revolutionized
bookselling in Britain and changed the country's cultural
landscape. He also wrote a memoir,
called The Face Pressed Against a
Window (Atlantic, 2019). We met at The Garrick Club in
London to talk about the book, and about how he accomplished what
he accomplished.
Topics covered in...
Aug 18, 2023
I was in Ireland recently to interview two of the best novelists
on the face of the planet. John Banville, in Dublin, and David Mitchell, in Cork.
As a cost-cutting measure I decided to ask them both the same
questions:
What do you do?
How do you do it?
Why do you do it? And:
Why does it matter?
I got diametrically...