All Episodes

Dan Morgan on his transformation from Collector to Bookseller

Nazi Newspaper Propaganda and Stephen Miller's Twitter Feed

James Daunt on the future: his own and Barnes & Nobles'

Bloomsbury's Nigel Newton on Gold-Digging, Fast Cars, Friendship, and Finding Harry Potter

Scott McIntyre and the Brutal Reality that is Canadian Publishing

Ken Whyte on how to edit a magazine versus a book

Ira Wells On Book Banning

Roberto Banchik on Publishing, Mexico, Collusion and Identity Politics

Timothy Heyman on B. Traven and how to manage a literary archive

David McKnight on Collecting The Beatles

Michael Erdman on the history of magazines (and women's rights) in Turkey

Andrés Mario Zervigón on the history of illustrated magazines, John Heartfield, and AIZ

Tony Fekete on Collecting Erotica

Siegfried Lokatis on Insel Bucherei, the iconic German book series

Richard Charkin on Lessons Learned from 50 Years in Book Publishing

Book scholar Jonathan Rose on Playboy magazine's Readership

Karen Etingin on running a vintage poster shop

Michael Lista on writing true crime, and getting optioned

Ian Birch on great magazine covers

Paul Wells on Writing Politics for Newspapers, Magazines, Books & Substack

Christopher Long on the Genius Graphics of Lucian Bernhard

Nick Anthony on AI, and writing his first Novel

Thomas Harding on George Weidenfeld, Publishing and Sex

John Sargent on beating Amazon & Google, & saving Books

Joshua Doležal on being a 'Book Coach.'

Andrew Franklin "the best of the best in U.K. publishing"

Michael Schmidt on 50+ years publishing poetry

John Hodgson on running one of the world's great libraries

Andrew Nash on the value of Publishers' Archives

Sir Tim Waterstone on Building a Bookselling Empire

R.I.P. Steven Temple, the "best" CanLit Antiquarian Bookseller

Chris Gribble on how to grow a national centre for writing

Novelist David Mitchell on What he Does and How he Does it

John Banville on how and why he writes Novels

Tim Parks on how to be a better reader

Marta Sylvestrova on Czech Film Poster Design

Will "Reading Spas" save Bookselling?

Ricky Cavallero on Book Publishing as Partying

Matteo Columbo on Falling in Love with Margaret Atwood

Maria Hamrefors: Sweden's James Daunt

Barbara Hoepli on how Italy loves its Bookstores

Jeff Deutsch on a new kind of bookstore and the paradox of the browse

Justin Pemberton on how to adapt an 800-page best-seller into a documentary film

Stephen Marche on Writing and Failure and Getting your Balls Hacked Off

Sasha Tochilovsky on one of the great partnerships in magazine history

Andy Hughes on Bob Caro and Book Production at Knopf

Michael Geist on the pathetic argument for extending copyright in Canada

Director Lizzie Gottlieb on her new documentary film Turn Every Page.

Michael Torosian on Photography & making Fine Press Photography Books

John Metcalf on a lifetime of editing and publishing short stories

Anton Bogomazov on Mark LaFramboise and the role of the Bookstore Book Buyer

Shannon DeVito on her role as 'Director of Books' at B & N

Tom Devlin on the rise of Drawn and Quarterly, and Graphic Novels

Valerie Picard on winning Best Children's Publisher at Bologna

Martha Fleming on Canada's greatest graphic designer

Nora Krug on vigilantly illustrating Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny

Naomi Bacon on Marketing Books on Social Media

Michael Zantovsky on Vaclav Havel and writing the biography of a close friend

John Owen on the best bookstore I've been in, in my Life

Is Nick Anthony going after Jordan Peterson's audience?

Alexandra Pringle on arm-hairs and other secrets to great editing

Marius Kociejowski reflects on the Soul of the Book Trade

Richard Katrovas on Creative Writing Programs and Publishing First Books

Mark Andrews on Collecting Books about the Science and Engineering of Water

Mark Samuels Lasner on book collecting, after the dopamine

Kat McKenna on how Tik Tok's BookTok sells books

Stephen Enniss on special collections, value, Martin Amis and Andrew Wylie

Sarah Miniaci on how to publicize a book in 2022

Bob Rae on Orwell's Politics and the English Language, totalitarianism and genocide

Stuart Kells reveals the truth about Allen Lane and Penguin Books

Laura J. Miller updates us on Reluctant Capitalists her book on bookselling

Jonathan Kay on how to be a Ghostwriter

Kathryn Schulz on Death and Love, Memoirs and Essays, and...

James Wood on his role as a book critic

William Taylor on how to sell your books through an auction house

Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut on how he writes novels

Glenn Horowitz on being a "notorious" bookseller & archives dealer

Andrew Wylie on being a Literary Agent

Margaret Atwood on the non-role of writers

Don Stewart on MacLeod's, his iconic Vancouver bookshop

Paul Delaney on Biography & writing the fascinating life of Charles Ricketts

Andrew Coyne on his father James Elliott Coyne and Economic Nationalism

Andrew Steeves on his Gaspereau Press

Linda Morra on the Margaret Laurence - Jack McClelland Letters