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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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Elisabeth Ruge, Germany's leading literary agent

Aug 27, 2022

Elisabeth Ruge is a German editor, publisher and literary agent. She currently heads the Elisabeth Ruge Agency which she founded in 2014. In 1994 she established the Berlin Verlag publishing house together with her then husband Arnulf Conradi and Veit Heinichen. 
 
I met Elisabeth at her home on the outskirts of Berlin...

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Andrew Wylie on being a Literary Agent

Feb 22, 2022

Andrew Wylie is an American literary agent. He grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts and attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He has a degree from Harvard University where he studied Romance Languages & Literatures. 
 
Wylie founded his eponymous literary agency in New York in 1980 and opened a second...

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Robert Lecker on literary agents in Canada, past and present

Sep 3, 2018

Robert Lecker is a Canadian scholar, author, and Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University in Montreal, where he specializes in Canadian literature. He has held a number of prominent positions in the Canadian publishing industry throughout his career. He co-founded ECW Press in 1977, he co-edited the...

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Pierre Astier and Laure Pecher on Literary Agents in France

Jul 9, 2018

Series: Biblio File in France

Pierre Astier and Laure Pecher are co-founders of their own eponymous literary and film agency. Pierre represents mainly French-speaking authors and publishers. After working in the art world for ten years, he created the quarterly short stories magazine Le Serpent à Plumes in 1988. In...

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Gill Coleridge on the role of the Literary Agent #7

Apr 27, 2006

Gill Coleridge is a partner with Rogers, Coleridge & White, one of the top literary agencies in the world. I spoke with her at the 2006 London Bookfair about how discounting squeezes authors; about the role of the literary agent, how she champions her stable of writers, her bets on hot new literary talent (Peter Hobbs,...

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