Episode 107: Traditional Publishing and the Winds of Change
What does the publishing industry still have to offer writers who are breaking in? In this episode, George Higgins and Susie Gerhard take to the field to check out the Litquake panel “Tried and True: ...
18 Jun 201918min
Episode 106: Julia Flynn Siler and The White Devil’s Daughters
New York Times best-selling author Julia Flynn Siler takes us deep into the story of the women who fought slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown with her new book, The White Devil's Daughters. The Write...
11 Jun 201922min
Episode 105: Diana Kapp on Subjects Near and Far
Journalist Diana Kapp is published widely, from San Francisco magazine to the New York Times, ESPN, and O, the Oprah Magazine. She's taken a circuitous path to many of her stories, which have included...
21 Mai 201945min
Episode 104: Monica Campbell on Borders, Bright Spots, and PRI’s The World
Senior editor/reporter at Public Radio International's "The World," Monica Campbell focuses on immigration and immigrant life in the United States. She's reported internationally for years, including ...
14 Mai 201943min
Episode 103: Virgie Tovar reinvents “fat camp”
We revisit our July 2018 interview with influential author and body-image activist Virgie Tovar, who was recently interviewed for the Pacific Standard by Writers Grotto member Beth Winegarner. Tovar i...
7 Mai 20191h
Episode 102: Jamie Ford on the Value of MFAs
Award-winning author Jamie Ford joins co-hosts emeritus Larry and BQ for the second of two live podcasts recorded at the 2019 Storyfort Festival in Boise, Idaho. Their conversation with the Montana wr...
23 Apr 201955min
Episode 101: Tara Conklin Live At Storyfort
New York Times best-selling author Tara Conklin is our guest this week as she joins co-hosts emeritus Larry and BQ onstage at the Storyfort Festival in Boise, Idaho. Conklin talks craft, vision and wo...
16 Apr 201950min
Episode 100: John Markoff on Stewart Brand
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Markoff joins co-host Ben Marks of CollectorsWeekly.com on the GrottoPod this week to talk about his forthcoming biography of Stewart Brand. Markoff, who spent 2...
19 Mar 201927min
