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 e...
3 Mar 202020min
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 Wri...
25 Feb 202034min
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 plus...
11 Feb 202032min
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 ...
28 Jan 202058min
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 wor...
14 Jan 20201h 2min
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 back...
31 Des 201939min
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 ent...
26 Nov 201928min
