Dec 25, 2021
Steven Heller is an eminent American graphic
designer, art director, art critic and scholar. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 books which variously trace the history of
typography, illustration and other subjects related to graphic
design. I talk with Steve about
Paul Rand an American...
Dec 17, 2021
Daniel Mendelsohn "is an internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist, and translator. Born in New York City in 1960, he received degrees in Classics from the University of Virginia and Princeton. After completing his Ph.D. he moved to New York City, where he began freelance writing full time; since 1991 he has...
Dec 14, 2021
Fifteen years ago I interviewed Michael Cader at Book Expo in Toronto. The advice he had for publishers at the time remains remarkably fresh and valuable. Michael is the founder of Publisher's Lunch, the largest book publishing industry publication in the world. Each day it's e-mailed out to more than 45,000 people.
We...
Dec 7, 2021
William (Bill) Matthews
has been dealing in old & rare books, manuscripts, maps and related
material since 1976. He began working for a bookshop in Saskatoon,
then opened his own in Vancouver in 1976, and subsequently moved to
Toronto in 1980. He was in Ontario until 1996 when he moved to San
Francisco / Berkeley and...
Dec 2, 2021
Don Stewart is the
proprietor of MacLeod’s Books at 455 West Pender Street in
downtown Vancouver, a shop famed for its magnificent piles of
books, wide selection and narrow aisles. Stewart bought MacLeod's Books in 1973
from Van Andruss who'd bought it from Don MacLeod a few
years after it opened
in 1964. He
moved the...