GrottoPod
Conversations with working writers on the craft of writing, the writer’s life, and the broader writing community, recorded at the Writers Grotto in San Francisco, California.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 154
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Episode 135: Adam Smyer’s Anti-Racist Translation Guide
Adam Smyer joins us on the GrottoPod this week to talk about his new book, You Can Keep That To Yourself: A Comprehensive List of What Not to Say to Black People, for Well-Intentioned People of Pallo…
00:17:27 |
Tue 01 Sep 2020
Episode 134: Vanessa Hua, “VIP Tutoring”
Award-winning writer Vanessa Hua joins the GrottoPod summer reading series today to share a taste of her short story "VIP Tutoring" from her newly reissued collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities.…
00:13:08 |
Tue 25 Aug 2020
Episode 133: Raina León, “Solstice in Solidified Sugar”
Writer Raina León joins the GrottoPod this week as part of our summer reading series to share her piece "Solstice in Solidified Sugar." León is a full professor of education at Saint Mary’s College o…
00:17:20 |
Tue 18 Aug 2020
Episode 132: Rachel Levin Wants You To Eat Something!
Food writer Rachel Levin continues our GrottoPod reading series in a special Shabbat episode. Listen in as she reads from EAT SOMETHING: A Wise Sons Cookbook for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Wh…
00:08:50 |
Fri 07 Aug 2020
Episode 131: A.H. Kim’s ‘A Good Family’
Today on the GrottoPod we're kicking off our summer reading series, bringing you readings from Writers Grotto members. Today we're featuring Ann Kim, who reads from her brand-new novel, A Good Family…
00:10:16 |
Tue 28 Jul 2020
Episode 130: Kevin Smokler’s ‘Vinyl Nation’
Kevin Smokler is an author, documentary filmmaker and event host based in San Francisco. Today on the GrottoPod, he discusses his documentary, Vinyl Nation: A Deep Dig into the Record Resurgence, whi…
00:35:41 |
Tue 21 Jul 2020
Episode 129: Taneum Bambrick’s Bold Poetry
Taneum Bambrick's book, Vantage, is a fictionalized account of the poet's time spent working as the only woman on a garbage crew. Using unforgettable images, Bambrick tackles issues such as class, ge…
00:43:12 |
Tue 07 Jul 2020
Episode 128: Historian Yan Slobodkin on the Current Moment
Yan Slobodkin is a historian of modern Europe, with a focus on French colonial and transnational history. He stops by the GrottoPod this week to discuss his current book project—a history of famine i…
00:33:25 |
Tue 26 May 2020
Episode 127: Beth Lisick and ‘Edie on the Green Screen’
Beth Lisick's debut novel, Edie on the Green Screen, is about a Bay Area Gen-X rebel, an "It Girl" in the late '90s who faces her own obsolescence in 2010s San Francisco. It is fundamentally about ho…
00:42:56 |
Tue 12 May 2020
Episode 126: International Literature
What can international literature teach us about our collective past, present and future in these chaotic times? In the latest GrottoPod Gabfest, producer and Grotto fellow Rita Chang-Eppig talks to …
00:44:56 |
Tue 21 Apr 2020
Episode 125: Telling the Stories of Stuff
For the better part of a decade, Lisa Hix, Hunter Oatman-Stanford, and GrottoPod co-host Ben Marks have been writing about antiques, vintage items, and collectibles at CollectorsWeekly.com. As a rule…
00:32:32 |
Tue 31 Mar 2020
Episode 124: Bonnie Tsui and ‘Why We Swim’
Take the plunge into an episode on all things aquatic with Bonnie Tsui, whose new book, Why We Swim, dives into swimming history while offering poetic contemplation on the nature of this physical pur…
00:36:06 |
Tue 17 Mar 2020
Episode 123: Roberto Lovato on Dignidad Literaria
Dignidad Literaria is a grassroots campaign for greater Latinx inclusion in the United States publishing industry that has grabbed the attention of activists and publishing executives alike. In this …
00:20:20 |
Tue 03 Mar 2020
Episode 122: Writing Memoir, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Want to learn how to shape experience—or explore whole new worlds? Fact and fiction commingle and collide in today’s episode, the third of our special podcasts about a new series of books from the Wr…
00:34:14 |
Tue 25 Feb 2020
Episode 121: Dystopian Visions
Gender wars, pandemics, and, of course, workaday clones: is it the daily news, or our shared future? In the latest GrottoPod Gabfest, co-producers Susan Gerhard, Daniel Pearce and Beth Winegarner plu…
00:32:05 |
Tue 11 Feb 2020
Episode 120: Cornelius Eady On Poetry and Jazz
Cornelius Eady has published seven books of poetry, including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, which won the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and Brutal Imagination, a finalist…
00:58:59 |
Tue 28 Jan 2020
Episode 119: The Making of ‘Rooted & Written’
This week we go inside Rooted & Written, a new Writers Grotto initiative by and for writers of color. Featured in this one-hour show: live poetry and prose readings from the first Rooted & Written wo…
01:02:42 |
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Episode 118: Our Favorite Books of 2019
As the year races to a close, we revisit the adrenaline rush of five key books: one inspired in part by SCUM Manifesto scribe Valerie Solanas; another powered by a Great Dane; a play-by-play plus bac…
00:39:15 |
Tue 31 Dec 2019
Episode 117: Michael Frank in conversation with Lindsey Crittenden
Michael Frank is the author of the memoir The Mighty Franks, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection that was named one of the best books of 2017 by The Telegraph and The New Statesman …
00:40:28 |
Tue 17 Dec 2019
Episode 116: The Delights of Writing Historical Fiction
Writer Lucy Jane Bledsoe, whose new novel is Running Wild, interviews fellow authors Pam Berkman and Dorothy Hearst. Berkman and Hearst's new children's book is Filigree's Midnight Ride, the first en…
00:28:15 |
Tue 26 Nov 2019
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