The Proprietor

Your host is Maxim Crispin, an antiquarian bookseller working out of the United States, which is a respectable way of saying he enjoys spending many of his days like an 85-year-old hermit. He has also handled ancient coins since he was six, which became a fledgling career in Switzerland once upon a time, but that is a story for another day. He buys books that have been given up on, wherever they have been given up on, identifies them properly, and occasionally discovers something nobody knew was there. The podcast exists because there is only so much of this that a dinner guest will tolerate. The store exists because we need money.

As for the name: we are not against archives. We simply note that they leak, and we wait downstream.