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Last 20 Shows 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 |
Nigel Beale Interviews Book Artist Claire Van Vliet
Claire Van Vliet is the owner of the Janus Press
founded in 1955 located, since 1966, in Newark, Vermont. Janus Press
has to date produced approximately 100 publications â books, pamphlets,
and broadsides- , many of them designed, illustrated, type-set, printed
(sometimes on paper made by the artist), and bound by Van Vliet
herself in a well-equipped studio, printshop, bindery of her own
design.
Born
in Ottawa, Canada, she has lived in the United States since 1947. After
gradua ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Poet Galway KinnellNB Authors
Galway Kinnell was
born February 1, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island. He has been hailed
as one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the
20th century. Educated at Princeton and Rochester Universities, he
served in the United States Navy, after which he spent several years
traveling, in Europe and the Middle East. His first book of poems, What a Kingdom It Was, was published in 1960, followed by Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock (1964).
Upon
his retu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Karsh Curator Jerry Fielder
Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002)
was born in Armenia in 1908. His photographer uncle, George Nakash,
brought him to Canada in 1924. After apprenticing in Boston with John
H. Garo, Karsh settled in Ottawa in 1932, where he began his
professional career. By 1936 he was photographing visiting statesmen
and dignitaries, among them President Franklin Roosevelt.
His
December, 1941 portrait of a bulldoggish Winston Churchill, symbolizing
Britainâs wartime resolve, brought Karsh international attention. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Cartoon Historian Brad MacKay
Writer, journalist, comic reader, intermittent blogger, and over-tired family man Brad Mackay is the author most recently of a biographical essay which appears in The Collected Doug Wright Volume One (Drawn and Quarterly, 2009).
First of a two-volume set, the book â designed by well known Canadian cartoonist Seth
- presents a comprehensive look at the life and career of one of the
most-read, best-loved cartoonists of the 1960s. The work draws from
thousands of pieces of a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Author David Mitchell
This from the incomÂparÂable BritÂish Councilâs conÂtemÂporÂary writers webÂsite:
Born
in SouthÂport in 1969, David Mitchell grew up in MalÂvern,
WorcesterÂshire, studyÂing for a degree in EngÂlish and AmerÂican
LitÂerÂatÂure folÂlowed by an MA in
ComÂparÂatÂive LitÂerÂatÂure, at the UniÂverÂsity of Kent. He lived for
a year in Sicily before movÂing to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught
EngÂlish to techÂnical stuÂdents for eight years, before returnÂing to
E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Booksellers Joshua and Phyllis Heller
Whatâs
the difÂferÂence between a First EdiÂtion, a Fine Press EdiÂtion and an
Artistsâ Book? Joshua and PhylÂlis Heller work with me to help define
the boundÂarÂies.
The two of them estabÂlished Joshua Heller Rare Books, Inc. in WashÂingÂton DC,
in 1985. The comÂpany speÂcialÂizes in âconÂtemÂporÂary fine printÂing
and beauÂtiÂfully illusÂtrated books, the Private Press MoveÂment,
modÂern fine bindÂings, and books about books. [Their] much admired
cataà ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Morgan Librarian John Bidwell
John BidÂwell is Astor CurÂator of PrinÂted Books and BindÂings at thePierÂpont MorÂgan LibÂrary,
before which he was CurÂator of Graphic Arts in the PrinÂceton
UniÂverÂsity LibÂrary. He has writÂten extensÂively on the hisÂtory of
paperÂmakÂing in EngÂland and America.
The PrinÂted Books and BindÂings colÂlecÂtion
at the MorÂgan conÂtains works spanÂning WestÂern book proÂducÂtion
from the earliÂest prinÂted ephÂemÂera to importÂant first ediÂtio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Professor Joseph Khoury: on Succession in King Lear and HamletCharles H. Cameron as King Lear (1872) / print by A.L. Coburn, ca. 1915, Photo by
Julia Margaret Cameron
Shakespeare wrote Hamlet
before James l came to the throne. Events in the play reflect many of
the real world concerns that Englishmen had about being ruled by a
foreigner. At the playâs end, Denmarkâs line of rulers is
extinguished, and a foreigner (Fortinbras) takes the throne. James was
married to Anna of Denmark, some feared that if he were to attempt a
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Nigel Beale Interviews Author Denise Mina on: The Crime Mystery
Crime novelist Denise Mina is the author of a trilogy of novels set in Glasgow: Garnethill (1998), which won the Crime Writersâ Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger; Exile (2000); and Resolution (2001).
Sanctum (2002), is the story of a forensic psychiatrist, convicted of killing a serial killer. The Field of Blood (2005) is the first in a new series, the second in the series, The Dead Hour, was published in 2006, and the third, Slip of the Knife, in 2007.
M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
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