Episode 50: Mary Ladd On How Cancer Changed Her Writing
Writer Mary Ladd was carving out a niche for herself as a San Francisco food and nightlife scribe when she ran headlong into a diagnosis of breast cancer. Looking ahead to a long road of treatment, il...
23 Jan 20181h 1min
Episode 49: Maw Shein Win, Poet Laureate of El Cerrito
Maw Shein Win is the place where punk and poetry meet. Win is a prolific poet -- and the poet laureate for the Bay Area city of El Cerrito. She's also the former percussionist, along with Mark Dutcher...
16 Jan 20181h 1min
Episode 48: Larry & BQ On Managing Your Writing Career
What’s your New Year's resolution? Does it have something to do with writing? Do you want to write and publish more (or less)? Ease into the new year -- and your literary resolutions -- with Larry and...
9 Jan 201848min
Episode 47: Po Bronson & Ethan Watters On Starting a Writers Collective
For next “best of” GrottoPod episode we return to our roots -- and the San Francisco Writers Grotto’s roots -- with guests Po Bronson and Ethan Watters. The Grotto co-founders joined us for GrottoPod ...
2 Jan 201857min
Episode 46: Lee Kravetz’s ‘Strange Contagion’ Takes Off
This week, we travel back in time to visit with GrottoPod producer Lee Kravetz as he anticipates the release of his second book, Strange Contagion, last June -- and then return to the present as Lee r...
19 Dec 20171h
Episode 45: Shanthi Sekaran’s ‘Lucky’ Year
2017 has been quite a year for our inaugural GrottoPod guest, Shanthi Sekeran. Her novel, Lucky Boy, has been named to several “best of” lists, including NPR’s Best Books of 2017, and she’s travelled ...
12 Dec 201749min
Episode 44: Guinevere de la Mare’s ‘Love Letter to Reading’
Guinevere de la Mare, author of I’d Rather Be Reading, calls the compilation of art and essays “a love letter to reading.” De la Mare's life-long love of reading led her to create the Silent Book Club...
5 Dec 201759min
Episode 43: Jennifer March Soloway: All About Agents
How do agents spend their time? This week, Jennifer March Soloway, associate agent at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, joins her old running buddy BQ and Larry in the GrottoPod to clear up some of th...
28 Nov 20171h 6min
