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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
milita ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
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 |
Nigel Beale Interviews Author Terry Griggs
Terry Griggs is the author of a collection of short stories, Quickening, which was nominated for a Governor Generalâs Award, and two novels, The Lusty Man, and Roguesâ Wedding, shortlisted for the Rogers Writersâ Trust Fiction Award. She has also written two books for children, Catâs Eye Corner, shortlisted for a Mr. Christieâs Book Award and a Red Cedar Award, and most recently a sequel, The Silver Door. In 2003 she received the Marian Engel Award. Born on Manitoulin Island in Lake ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Author Donald Antrim on Creative Writing Workshops
This past Spring at the Blue Met Writers Festival, Donald Antrim conducted
a workshop entitled: Fiction and Memoir: "Writing Ourselves" It was
designed to explore the âchallenging and often frustrating process of
reading into oneâs own work;â and to identify aspects of that work
which may have been underdeveloped, unnoticed, or even, avoided. As the
syllabus put it:
"Fiction
and memoir are not, as a rule, brought together in workshops. And yet
many of the concerns tha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Author Ha Jin on: The Writer as Migrant
Ha Jin was born in China in 1956. After
Tiananmen Square, he emigrated to the United States. Unlike most exiled
writers Ha Jin was not established in his native language; he had no
audience in Chinese, and so chose to write in English.
He has published three collections of poetry, including Between Silences and Facing Shadows, and three collections of short fiction, Ocean of Words, received the PEN/Hemingway Award, and Under the Red Flag, won the Flannery OâConnor Award. His nov ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Poet, Typographer, Book Designer Robert BringhurstJMV
Born
in Los Angeles in 1946, Robert Bringhurst is an award winning Canadian
poet, typographer and author. Perhaps best known for The Elements of Typographic Style â
a reference book of typefaces, glyphs and the visual and geometric
arrangement of type, he is also a respected translator of poetic works
from Haida into English. He lives on Quadra Island, near Campbell
River, B.C.
We met recently in Ottawa to talk about his definition of the book as articulated in The Surfa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Author A.B. Yehoshua
A.B. Yehoshua was born in 1936 to a fifth-generation Jerusalem family of Sephardi
origin. His first book of stories, "Mot Hazaken" (The Death of the Old
Man) was published in 1962. He was an important member of the "new
wave" generation of Israeli writers who differed from earlier writers
by focusing on the individual rather than the group. Franz Kafka, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and William Faulkner were all formative influences.
Author
of nine novels, t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nigel Beale Interviews Author Zoe Heller
This from Contemporary Writers:
" Zoe Heller was born in London in 1965 and educated at Oxford
University and Columbia University, New York. She is a journalist who,
after writing book reviews for various newspapers, became a feature
writer for The Independent. She wrote a weekly confessional column for the Sunday Times for four years, but now writes for the Daily Telegraph and earned the title âColumnist of the Yearâ in 2002. She is the author of two novels: Ever ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
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