Episode 26: Larry and BQ On The Sticky Business of Writing
Why do you write? Or, rather, how do you write? This week, hosts Bridget Quinn and Larry Rosen address these issues, landing on questions of motivation, ambition and outcome as they share their respec...
1 Aug 20171h 1min
Episode 25: Katherine Ozment On The Search for Meaning
Can you create community and ritual without religion, raise moral and ethical children without the guiding hand of the church, find grace without God? This week, we address big questions like these wh...
25 Jul 201758min
Episode 24: Bridget Watson Payne On The Writer-Editor Bond
Bridget Watson Payne is the embodiment of the GrottoPod motto “read, write and just keep working.” In addition to her responsibilities as Chronicle Books' art books editor, she is an illustrator and a...
18 Jul 20171h 2min
Episode 23: Oscar Villalon, Behind the Scenes at Zyzzyva
Oscar Villalon didn’t set out to become a literary gatekeeper, but that’s part of his job description as the managing editor of Zyzzyva, arguably the most prominent literary journal in the Bay Area. J...
11 Jul 201759min
Episode 22: Lee Kravetz On Contagious Ideas
Can you “catch” a behavior like you’d catch a cold? Lee Kravetz, co-author of Supersurvivors, thinks so. This week, he joins the GrottoPod to explain how. Kravetz (also a producer of our podcast) lays...
27 Jun 20171h 1min
Episode 21: Michael Frank On Capturing Family in Memoir
Michael Frank, author of the acclaimed new memoir The Mighty Franks, grew up in an unusual, “intertwined” family. He was swept up into the world of his childless aunt and uncle, a pair of prominent Ho...
20 Jun 201757min
Episode 20: Writers’ Retreats
To retreat or not to retreat? That is the question on this week's special, guest-free episode of the GrottoPod. Join BQ and Larry as they engage in a spirited conversation about what makes writing ret...
13 Jun 201752min
Episode 19: Faith Adiele On Telling Your Unique Story
How does a “typical Nigerian-Norse American girl” get from rural Washington State to Harvard, Thailand and then San Francisco? Faith Adiele, the product of Sunnyside, Washington’s “only mixed-race, Ma...
6 Jun 20171h 3min
