{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"David McKnight on Collecting The Beatles","description":"Some years ago I interviewed David McKnight about a collection of Canadian \u201clittle magazines\u201d he\u2019d hunted down and later donated to the University of Alberta\u2019s Bruce Peel Library. It was very easy to get caught up in David\u2019s enthusiasm, and I was really impressed by the catalogue he\u2019d produced. Shortly after our conversation I learned that he didn\u2019t just collect Canadian poetry, he was also a serious Beatles collector. We stayed in touch. I drove down to Philadelphia where David hosted me at his home for a weekend. We got a lot done. Took the train into New York for the opening of a film about a bookseller; went on a tour of the rare book and manuscript library at the University of Pennsylvania where David worked at the time as director; attended the Allentown Paper Fair where I picked up some old Fortune and New York Times magazines. It was great. A non-stop exchanging of excited thoughts about books, collecting, and cool periodicals. Share I\u2019ve been wanting to interview David about The Fab Four ever since I learned of his passion. He\u2019s a real expert on the band. I was particularly keen to find out about his personal relationship to the music, and of course, about his experience collecting and documenting its impact on print culture, internationally, high and low. Finally, after years of talking about it, we got down to business. The albums, the books - from limited editions to paperbacks - the magazines, the fan zines, the ephemera, the scrap-books, the puzzles. Liverpool. It\u2019s all here. ","author_name":"The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale","author_url":"https:\/\/thebibliofile.ca","html":"