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 14: Fred Vogelstein On When The Story Gets Personal
How are the stakes changed when a journalist pursues a personal story? This week, veteran tech writer Fred Vogelstein enters the GrottoPod to share his journey from Freshman remedial English to Wired…
01:08:16 |
Tue 02 May 2017
Episode 13: Matthew Zapruder
Matthew Zapruder, poetry editor for the New York Times Magazine and author of four award-winning poetry collections, enters the GrottoPod this week to discuss his latest work -- a book of prose due o…
00:56:49 |
Tue 25 Apr 2017
Episode 12: Frances Stroh
Author Frances Stroh joins the GrottoPod to discuss her best-seller, “Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss,” just ahead of its release in paperback May 30. Invigorated and rested after spending…
00:53:27 |
Tue 18 Apr 2017
Episode 11: Christopher Cook
Journalist, memoirist, activist and lifelong Boston Red Sox fan Christopher Cook enters the GrottoPod this week to discuss a life lived in pursuit of doing good and doing well. An award-winning muckr…
01:03:41 |
Tue 11 Apr 2017
Episode 10: Zahra Noorbakhsh
Feminist, Muslim, Iranian-American comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh joins us on the GrottoPod this week to talk about her love of performing onstage, politics, her relationship with her Iran-born parents --…
01:04:16 |
Tue 04 Apr 2017
Episode 9: Vanessa Hua
In this week's episode, Vanessa Hua -- journalist, columnist, fiction writer, and mother of 5-year-old twins -- talks about how she juggles everything, stays on top of social media and manages to be …
00:54:18 |
Tue 28 Mar 2017
Episode 8: Bridget Quinn
Bridget Quinn removes her co-host hat and gives us the backstory of her first book, Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art & Made History (in That Order). Born and raised in Montana, Quinn followed a n…
00:57:14 |
Tue 21 Mar 2017
Episode 7: Ethel Rohan
Ethel Rohan published two story collections (Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone), a chapbook (Hard to Say), and a short memoir (His Heartbeat in my Hand) before releasing her first novel, The …
00:58:00 |
Tue 14 Mar 2017
Episode 6: Manjula Martin
How do writers get by, financially? We put that impertinent question to our colleague Manjula Martin, author of Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living. In the book, she gathers intel…
00:49:01 |
Tue 07 Mar 2017
Episode 5: Joshua Mohr
Joshua Mohr is the author of five novels, including Damascus (2011), which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” But he joins us in the GrottoPod to talk about why he just released a memoir, Si…
01:03:24 |
Tue 28 Feb 2017
Episode 4: Louise Nayer
Poet, memoirist and longtime teacher Louise Nayer joins us to discuss the always-intriguing subject of memoir. In August 2016, Louise re-released Burned, the story of tragedy and rebirth in her famil…
00:50:41 |
Tue 21 Feb 2017
Episode 3: Po Bronson and Ethan Watters
Two of the three founders of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto -- Po Bronson and Ethan Watters -- join us on the GrottoPod. They come not to discuss their stellar careers in journalism but to share h…
00:56:04 |
Tue 14 Feb 2017
Episode 2: Constance Hale
Connie Hale, a Hawaiian-born author of groundbreaking books on language, enters the GrottoPod studio to discuss growing up in paradise, laying some island Pidgin English on one of her profs at Prince…
00:53:27 |
Tue 07 Feb 2017
Episode 1: Shanthi Sekaran
Shanthi Sekaran, whose new novel, Lucky Boy, has been featured in People, InStyle, Publishers Weekly and on NPR, squeezes into the GrottoPod for Episode 1. She talks about her creative process, the u…
00:52:07 |
Tue 07 Feb 2017
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