Mar 29, 2022
William Taylor Jr. is a
cataloger with PBA Galleries, a San Francisco-based auction house
for rare books and ephemera; he specializes in fine literature,
counterculture and poetry. He's an avid reader, and a prolific
writer. His first book of fiction is included in the curriculum at
select universities across the United...
Mar 23, 2022
Damon Galgut is a South
African novelist and playwright. He was awarded the 2021
Booker Prize for his novel The Promise and
shortlisted for the prize in 2003 and 2010 right about the time I
first interviewed him at his apartment in Cape Town (listen
here). Damon was head boy at Pretoria Boys High School,
matriculating...
Mar 17, 2022
Biblio.com started as a
price comparison engine for new and used books in 2000. Later, this
price comparison engine became SearchBiblio.com famous for several
years as the Internet's fastest "metasearch" site for books. In the
summer of 2003 Biblio.com launched as a used books marketplace,
working off a 'triple bottom...
Mar 12, 2022
Glenn Horowitz is an agent in the sale and
placement of culturally significant archives to research
institutions throughout the United States. Authors, artists,
musicians, designers, and photographers represented include Bob
Dylan, Norman Mailer, James Salter, Eve Babitz, Deborah Eisenberg,
David Foster Wallace,...
Mar 4, 2022
John Sargent is
an American book publisher; until recently he was the CEO of
Macmillan Publishers USA, and Executive Vice President of the Georg
von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group where he oversaw global trade
operations; he was also responsible for Macmillan Learning, the
company’s US-based higher education business.