Episode 131: A.H. Kim’s ‘A Good Family’
Today on the GrottoPod we're kicking off our summer reading series, bringing you readings from Writers Grotto members. Today we're featuring Ann Kim, who reads from her brand-new novel, A Good Family,...
28 Jul 202010min
Episode 130: Kevin Smokler’s ‘Vinyl Nation’
Kevin Smokler is an author, documentary filmmaker and event host based in San Francisco. Today on the GrottoPod, he discusses his documentary, Vinyl Nation: A Deep Dig into the Record Resurgence, whic...
21 Jul 202035min
Episode 129: Taneum Bambrick’s Bold Poetry
Taneum Bambrick's book, Vantage, is a fictionalized account of the poet's time spent working as the only woman on a garbage crew. Using unforgettable images, Bambrick tackles issues such as class, gen...
7 Jul 202043min
Episode 128: Historian Yan Slobodkin on the Current Moment
Yan Slobodkin is a historian of modern Europe, with a focus on French colonial and transnational history. He stops by the GrottoPod this week to discuss his current book project—a history of famine in...
26 Mai 202033min
Episode 127: Beth Lisick and ‘Edie on the Green Screen’
Beth Lisick's debut novel, Edie on the Green Screen, is about a Bay Area Gen-X rebel, an "It Girl" in the late '90s who faces her own obsolescence in 2010s San Francisco. It is fundamentally about how...
12 Mai 202042min
Episode 126: International Literature
What can international literature teach us about our collective past, present and future in these chaotic times? In the latest GrottoPod Gabfest, producer and Grotto fellow Rita Chang-Eppig talks to J...
21 Apr 202044min
Episode 125: Telling the Stories of Stuff
For the better part of a decade, Lisa Hix, Hunter Oatman-Stanford, and GrottoPod co-host Ben Marks have been writing about antiques, vintage items, and collectibles at CollectorsWeekly.com. As a rule,...
31 Mar 202032min
Episode 124: Bonnie Tsui and ‘Why We Swim’
Take the plunge into an episode on all things aquatic with Bonnie Tsui, whose new book, Why We Swim, dives into swimming history while offering poetic contemplation on the nature of this physical purs...
17 Mar 202036min
