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 74: Beth Winegarner On Self-Publishing
This week, BQ and Larry are joined by high-quality, low-maintenance, independent writer and editor (and GrottoPod producer) Beth Winegarner for a podcast that tracks Beth’s career as a writer, report…
01:03:07 |
Tue 10 Jul 2018
Episode 73: Katherine Reynolds Lewis On Writing That Changes Minds
Listen up! This week we’re joined in the ‘Pod by fresh-off-the-plane-from-the-East-Coast author and widely sought speaker Katherine Reynolds Lewis. Her new book about contemporary childhood and its d…
01:00:44 |
Tue 03 Jul 2018
Episode 72: Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen’s Delicious Writing Life
Things have never been livelier in the GrottoPod. This week, longtime Bay Area book author, editor and journalist Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen enters the 'Pod bearing Pisco Punch (plus Meyer lemonade …
01:03:24 |
Tue 26 Jun 2018
Episode 71: Aja Gabel On Music and Writing
This week, acclaimed first-time novelist Aja Gabel takes a break from her hectic book tour to join the GrottoPod. In an hour between bookstore appearances, Gabel settles in to discuss how being a mus…
01:00:50 |
Tue 19 Jun 2018
Episode 70: Vanessa Hua’s Favorite Book — Live!
For this week's episode, Vanessa Hua, author of the upcoming novel A River of Stars, takes the stage at the San Francisco Public Library with GrottoPod hosts Larry Rosen and Bridget Quinn to talk abo…
00:59:42 |
Tue 12 Jun 2018
Episode 69: Gordon Jack On Juggling Writing and Teaching
Some writers have day jobs; some teachers write “on the side.” Gordon Jack does both -- and neither. On the one hand, he spent more than a decade as a classroom teacher, has taught teachers and is no…
01:05:29 |
Tue 05 Jun 2018
Episode 68: Rachel Levin On Making it “Big”
Let's say you're on a summer hike and a grizzly crosses your path. Would you know what to do? Rachel Levin does. (Which is not to say she wants to encounter a bear!) Her new book, Look Big: And Other…
01:03:44 |
Tue 29 May 2018
Episode 67: Paul Drexler On Turning Crime Into Creativity
Crime may not pay, but Paul Drexler has discovered that becoming an expert on crime does. Introduced to true crime when his uncle’s car was used in a New Jersey mob killing, Drexler is now a writer, …
01:02:23 |
Tue 22 May 2018
Episode 66: Caroline Paul’s Mighty Adventures
What hasn’t Caroline Paul done? A one-time collegiate rower and Olympic-caliber luger, Paul has published non-fiction and historic fiction, books about stalking her cat, a memoir about being one of t…
01:06:41 |
Tue 15 May 2018
Episode 65: Dashka Slater On Turning News Into Inspiration
Dashka Slater already had a novel, several children’s books and a long career as a journalist in her pocket when, inspired by an incident in her hometown of Oakland, she decided to invent something n…
00:58:11 |
Tue 08 May 2018
Episode 64: Kirstin Chen On How to Be a Productive Writer
Author Kirstin Chen graduated college with thoughts of getting a “practical” job. Two acclaimed novels later, Chen takes time out from a hectic book tour to join the GrottoPod and talk about how her …
01:00:56 |
Tue 01 May 2018
Episode 63: Jonathan Evison on Life After the Bestseller List
This week, New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Evison joins us for our last live show from Boise’s Storyfort literary festival. Evison, who’s the executive editor of The Nervous Breakdown, ro…
01:09:38 |
Tue 24 Apr 2018
Episode 62: Willy Vlautin on Working-Class Heroes
A Boise hotel suite is the GrottoPod’s roving studio this week as our Storyfort Festival episodes continue. We talk with five-time novelist -- and Richmond Fontaine and The Delines frontman -- Willy …
01:21:49 |
Tue 17 Apr 2018
Episode 61: August McLaughlin on Building a Brand
When one-time model and actress August McLaughlin set out to become a writer, she never imagined she’d become a brand. Inspired after overcoming struggles with body image and an eating disorder, McLa…
01:03:05 |
Tue 10 Apr 2018
Episode 60: Stewart O’Nan and Jonathan Evison at Storyfort
For the first of four episodes recorded at the Storyfort Festival in Idaho, the GrottoPod breaks format and sits in a Boise nightspot with Stewart O’Nan, whose 16 novels include Snow Angels, West of …
01:10:55 |
Tue 03 Apr 2018
Episode 59: Natalie Baszile On Catching Oprah’s Eye
Natalie Baszile’s ascent from working in her family’s business to publishing her first novel is the classic story of a 20-year “overnight” success, one that ends with a TV deal and a playdate with Op…
00:59:18 |
Tue 27 Mar 2018
Episode 58: Green Apple’s Pete Mulvihill On Indie Bookstores
In 1993, Pete Mulvihill chose an uncertain future in San Francisco over graduate school in Oregon, then “stumbled into a temp job” at iconic local bookstore Green Apple Books. Flash-forward a quarter…
01:01:30 |
Tue 20 Mar 2018
Episode 57: The SF Diaries Team On Telling Great Stories
One of the best places to find compelling stories and characters is public spaces. Like, say, the bus. Launched a decade ago by a San Francisco State class assignment, the Muni Diaries blog quickly g…
01:00:09 |
Tue 13 Mar 2018
Episode 56: Anna Brones On A Balanced Life
- Anna Brones followed her heart, and it led her around the world -- and into a career writing books about her favorite things: bicycles, food and Swedish culture. Her latest, Live Lagom: Balanced Li…
00:59:56 |
Tue 06 Mar 2018
Episode 55: Tamara Barak Aparton On Leaving Journalism
Tamara Barak Aparton got more than than she expected when she left the San Francisco Examiner for a post with San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s office. The former reporter found that, far f…
00:58:26 |
Tue 27 Feb 2018
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