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Last 20 Shows David R. Godine on the History, and collecting, of his publishing House
Publisher and book collector David R. Godine is the founder and president of a small, independent, eponymous publishing house, located in Boston, Massachusetts. It produces between twenty and thirty titles per year and maintains an active reprint program.
Bio: After receiving degrees from Roxbury Latin School, Dartmouth College, and Harvard University, Godine worked for Leonard Baskin, the renowned typographer and printmaker, and master printer Harold McGrath. Going solo in 1970, fro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Mark Samuels Lasner on Collecting The Bodley Head
Collector, bibliographer, and typographer Mark Samuels Lasner is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware Library and a recognized authority on the literature and art of the late Victorian period. A graduate of Connecticut College, he is the author or co-author of among other works, The Bookplates of Aubrey Beardsley (Rivendale Press, 2008), A Bibliography of Enoch Soames (Rivendale Press, 1999), The Yellow Book: A Checklist and Index (Eighteen Nineties Society, 1998), A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Professor David Staines on Northrop Frye and Evaluative Criticism
David Staines is a Canadian literary critic, university professor (English at the University of Ottawa), writer, and editor. He specializes in three literatures: medieval, Victorian and Canadian. He is editor of the scholarly Journal of Canadian Poetry (since 1986) and general editor of McClelland and Stewart’s New Canadian Library series (since 1988). His essay collections, include The Canadian Imagination (1977), a book that introduced Canadian literature and literary critici ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Adam Thorpe on the Real Robin Hood
Poet, playwright and novelist Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956 and grew up in India, Cameroon and England. After graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1979, he started a theatre company and toured villages and schools before moving to London where he taught Drama and English Literature. Thorpe lives in France with his wife and three children. His most recent books are a collection of short stories, Is This The Way You Said? (2006); a poetry collection, Birds wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Richard Holloway on Organized ReligionPhoto: Nigel Beale.
Richard Holloway is a Scottish writer/broadcaster and former Bishop of Edinburgh in the Scottish Episcopal Church who was educated at Kelham Theological College and the Union Theological Seminary, New York City. Between 1959 and 1986 he was curate, vicar and rector at parishes in England, Scotland and the United States, at which point he became the Bishop of Edinburgh, a position he resigned from in 2000. Now an outspoken commentator on religious belief in the mode ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Bob Fleck on Oak Knoll Books
Oak Knoll Books – specialists in books on books – was founded in 1976 by Bob Fleck, a chemical engineer by training, who let his hobby get the best of him. Oak Knoll Press, the publishing arm of the business was established two years later.
Today, the thriving company maintains an inventory of about 23,000 titles. Specialities include books about bibliography, book collecting, book design, book illustration, book selling, bookbinding, bookplates, children’ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nicholson Baker: On the Future of the BookPhoto: Nigel Beale.
Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. As a novelist he often focuses on describing the minute physical detail of our surroundings, straws and escalators for example, writing on provocative topics such as voyeurism, phone sex and planned assassination. Enthusiasts laud his ability to explore and illuminate the human psyche, critics call him a boring gadfly. Much of his non-fiction deals with the printed word, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Author/Comedian A.L. Kennedy on: How to be Funny
Writer, comedian A. L. Kennedy lives and works in Glasgow and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2003 she was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Her novel Day (2007), won the Costa Book of the Year Award. She reviews and contributes to most of the major British newspapers, and has been a judge for both the Booker Prize for Fiction (1996) and The Guardian First Book Award (2001).
Her first book, Night Geometry and the Garscad ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Librarian Marie Korey on: The History of the BookA small college cannot hope to have a large library, but if it sets to work along the right lines it may aspire to the possession of a fine one… A book may be a thing of beauty, and an example of a great craft which we must not allow to die. The means of craft and the aspiration toward beauty live on in our College library.
— Robertson Davies, the Founding Master
Since its inception in 1963, the Library at Massey College has developed special collections in the History of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Professor Kevin Gilmartin: On Critic William Hazlitt
Kevin
Gilmartin is a professor of English at California Institute of
Technology, and visiting professor at the Centre for Eighteenth Century
Studies at York University in England. He is the author of Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1996) and Writing against Revolution: Literary Conservatism in Britain, 1790-1832 (Cambridge, 2007), and the co-editor with James Chandler of Romantic Metropolis: The Urban Scene of British C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Richard Coxford on Fine Press Books: History and Collecting
Richard Coxford is the proprietor of Bytown Bookshop
in Ottawa, Canada. He has been collecting fine/press books for many
years. We talk here about their history, and the joys and challenges of
hunting them down.
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Nigel Beale Interviews Rare Book Librarian Richard Landon
Richard Landon is Director of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
and Professor of English. He has taught courses on aspects of the
history of the book and bibliography for many years in the University
of Torontoâs Graduate Department of English and the Faculty of
Information. Among his recent publications are Bibliophilia Scholastica Floreat (2005), Ars Medica (2006), âTwo Collectors: Thomas Grenville and Lord Amherst of Hackneyâ in Commonwealth of Books (2007), âThe Elixir of Life: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Copyright Expert Bill Patry: On Orphans and PiratesIn 1841 Thomas Babington Macaulay
observed that âit is good that authors should be remunerated; and the
least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet
monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the
evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for
the purpose of securing the good.â
In his new book Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars, highly regarded copyright lawyer Bill Patry
concurs
with Macaulay, arguing that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews author activist Cory Doctorow: On the Future of the Book
Copyright
activist, speaker, teacher (how about âspeacherââor âspreacherâ),
columnist, science fiction novelist, short story writer, co-editor of Boing Boing, and the very manifestation of articulate dynamism, Cory Doctorow was in town recently to promote his novel Little Brother (free download here),
a fast paced, current-day 1984-like polemic calling for teens to
subvert security measures, especially those used by governments that
claim to "defend my freedom by tea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews 2009 GG Award Winning author Kate Pullinger on: The Mistress of Nothing(last night at Art Matters)
Kate
Pullinger is a novelist who also writes for film and various digital
platforms. Born in Cranbrook British Columbia she went to high school
on Vancouver Island, dropped out of McGill University,
worked for a year in a copper mine in the Yukon, traveled, and
eventually settled in London. Pullinger has written two short story
collections; her novels include When the Monster Dies (1989), Where Does Kissing End? (1992), A Little Stranger and mos ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews fine press owner Larry Thompson: On the Process of Letterpress Printing
established Greyweathers Press
several years ago because of a "love of beautifully designed type
skillfully arranged on a well-proportioned page."
His
original plan was to print letterpress books only, however, as his
enterprise evolved Larry became interested in relief block prints and
now includes these in his work. Editorial focus is on the literature
both of 19th and early 20th century British and American writers
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Nigel Beale Interviews Author Yann Martel on: The importance of leaders reading fictionBlock head?
Listen here as famed author of Life of Pi and self proclaimed political gadfly Yann Martel 1) Absorbs a barrage of punishing jabs I throw at him over his latest book What is Stephen Harper Reading?
and 2) Punches back at a Canadian Prime Minister whom he considers to
be a 'fact'-mired, fiction-eschewing ideologue without a vision.
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Nigel Beale Interviews Tor Books Publisher Tom Doherty
After
working his way up through the publishing trade during the 1950s and
1960s, Tom Doherty became publisher of Tempo Books in 1972 and later
Ace Books. In 1980 he established his own publishing firm Tom Doherty
Associates Inc., with the help of several investors including silent
partner Richard Gallen (of Dell Emerald Books fame), and with it the
Tor Books imprint.
Early Tor titles included Nortonâs Forerunner; Fred Saberhagenâs Water of Thought; Poul Andersonâs Winners, Starship, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews S.F. Editors David Hartwell and kathryn Cramer
David Hartwell has
worked as a Science Fiction and Fantasy editor for Signet, Berkley
Putnam, Pocket (where he founded the Timescape imprint and created the
Pocket Books Star Trek
publishing line), and Tor (where he headed Torâs Canadian publishing
initiative, and introduced many Australian writers to the US market).
Since 1995, his title at Tor/Forge Books has been "Senior Editor." He
chairs the board of directors of the World Fantasy Convention and is an administrator of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Rocky Stinehour, Founder, The Stinehour PressPosted in AUDIO Publisher Interviews on October 27th, 2009
Roderick âRockyâ Stinehour is a very pleasant, accomplished gentleman from Vermont. Heâs
also recognized internationally as a printer of high repute and a
designer of beautiful, scholarly books. His career spans over much
change in printing technology and the way in which books are produced
and distributed. In 1950, after graduating from Dartmouth College, he,
along with his wife and brother, established The Stinehour Pres ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
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