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 115: Mary Ladd’s “disrespectful cancer book”
In this special episode of the GrottoPod, author and former GrottoPod co-host Bridget Quinn interviews writer Mary Ladd and San Francisco Chronicle “Bad Reporter” cartoonist Don Asmussen for the Beta…
00:35:07 |
Tue 12 Nov 2019
Episode 114: Spooky Reads for Halloween
What’s scarier: an abusive father imposing the re-enactment of an iron-age human-sacrifice ritual on his teenage daughter, an idealistic young man imprisoned and brutalized for a crime he clearly did…
00:29:31 |
Tue 29 Oct 2019
Episode 113: You and AI—David Ewing Duncan and our Robotic Futures
The future is already here—but there's another one, two, or three futures right around the corner. David Ewing Duncan's new book, Talking to Robots: Tales from our Human Robot Futures, speculates on …
00:21:40 |
Tue 08 Oct 2019
Episode 112: Talking Books with The Stacks host Traci Thomas
Rummaging through piles of books has never been more fun than with books podcaster Traci Thomas, whose ebullient personality and searing smarts have grown her show, The Stacks, into a true indie medi…
00:26:17 |
Tue 24 Sep 2019
Episode 111: Writing Humor and Action
Write funnier -- and livelier! Today’s episode is the second of two special podcasts about a new series of books from the Writers Grotto called Lit Starts, which are available on September 10, 2019. …
00:21:45 |
Tue 10 Sep 2019
Episode 110: Writing Dialogue and Character
Want to take your writing to the next level? Today’s episode is the first of two special podcasts about a new series of books from the Writers Grotto called Lit Starts, available starting September 1…
00:35:18 |
Tue 03 Sep 2019
Episode 109: Joshua Furst on Writing the Counterculture
Joshua Furst is an aficionado of American counterculture. His 2008 novel, The Sabotage Cafe, was a story of then-and-now punks defining themselves in opposition to the mainstream: dumpster-divers liv…
00:31:20 |
Tue 27 Aug 2019
Episode 108: Sara Schneider on the Language of Wine
Sara Schneider has been a wine, food, and general lifestyle editor and writer for 25 years, most recently as Consulting Wine and Spirits Editor for Robb Report. Before that, Schneider was Sunset maga…
01:11:57 |
Tue 02 Jul 2019
Episode 107: Traditional Publishing and the Winds of Change
What does the publishing industry still have to offer writers who are breaking in? In this episode, George Higgins and Susie Gerhard take to the field to check out the Litquake panel “Tried and True:…
00:18:26 |
Tue 18 Jun 2019
Episode 106: Julia Flynn Siler and The White Devil’s Daughters
New York Times best-selling author Julia Flynn Siler takes us deep into the story of the women who fought slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown with her new book, The White Devil's Daughters. The Writ…
00:22:35 |
Tue 11 Jun 2019
Episode 105: Diana Kapp on Subjects Near and Far
Journalist Diana Kapp is published widely, from San Francisco magazine to the New York Times, ESPN, and O, the Oprah Magazine. She's taken a circuitous path to many of her stories, which have include…
00:45:24 |
Tue 21 May 2019
Episode 104: Monica Campbell on Borders, Bright Spots, and PRI’s The World
Senior editor/reporter at Public Radio International's "The World," Monica Campbell focuses on immigration and immigrant life in the United States. She's reported internationally for years, including…
00:43:09 |
Tue 14 May 2019
Episode 103: Virgie Tovar reinvents “fat camp”
We revisit our July 2018 interview with influential author and body-image activist Virgie Tovar, who was recently interviewed for the Pacific Standard by Writers Grotto member Beth Winegarner. Tovar …
01:00:04 |
Tue 07 May 2019
Episode 102: Jamie Ford on the Value of MFAs
Award-winning author Jamie Ford joins co-hosts emeritus Larry and BQ for the second of two live podcasts recorded at the 2019 Storyfort Festival in Boise, Idaho. Their conversation with the Montana w…
00:55:55 |
Tue 23 Apr 2019
Episode 101: Tara Conklin Live At Storyfort
New York Times best-selling author Tara Conklin is our guest this week as she joins co-hosts emeritus Larry and BQ onstage at the Storyfort Festival in Boise, Idaho. Conklin talks craft, vision and w…
00:50:31 |
Tue 16 Apr 2019
Episode 100: John Markoff on Stewart Brand
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Markoff joins co-host Ben Marks of CollectorsWeekly.com on the GrottoPod this week to talk about his forthcoming biography of Stewart Brand. Markoff, who spent …
00:27:57 |
Tue 19 Mar 2019
Episode 99: Goodbye, Hello! Tom Barbash on ‘The Dakota Winters’
Tom Barbash (center) with Paul Harding and Laura Fraser. "Where were you when you heard John Lennon was killed?" It's a familiar question to people of a certain age, but Gen-Xers will not be the o…
00:30:42 |
Tue 05 Mar 2019
Episode 98: Hello, Goodbye
Larry Rosen and BQ. This week marks the final studio appearance for hosts Larry Rosen and Bridget Quinn, who usher in a new era of the GrottoPod by completing the cycle they began 98 episodes ago.…
01:00:05 |
Tue 19 Feb 2019
Episode 97: Rachel Howard’s Big ‘Risk’
Rachel Howard. Rachel Howard was a Clovis High School flag-team member when an essay contest changed her life, putting her on a path whose latest milepost is the publication of her first novel, T…
00:59:37 |
Tue 29 Jan 2019
Episode 95: Cheryl A. Ossola On Writing Motherhood
Cheryl A. Ossola Writer Cheryl A. Ossola waited a long time to realize her dream. It finally came true in 2018, when the one-time theater electrician, photographer, neonatal nurse and dance-magazi…
00:55:20 |
Tue 15 Jan 2019
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