GrottoPod

This week, Laurie Ann Doyle -- author of the new short-story collection World Gone Missing, founder of the Babylon Salon literary performance series and GrottoPod co-producer -- sits down for a warm, ...

26 Sep 201758min

This week, the GrottoPod travels to the downtown Oakland office of Grotto alum Mary Roach, the New York Times best-selling author of six titles, including Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, B...

19 Sep 20171h 5min

What do you do when a music industry meltdown kills your band’s record sales? If you’re “Dr. Frank” Portman of East Bay pop-punk pioneers The Mr. T Experience, you get to work becoming a successful YA...

12 Sep 20171h 9min

What are the unique challenges of being a best-selling author? Find out this week as Janelle Brown -- whose latest book, Watch Me Disappear, debuted at #13 on the New York Times bestseller list -- joi...

5 Sep 20171h

When Christian Winn moved from Seattle to Boise, he didn’t realize that he was also jump-starting his writing career. Twenty years later, he’s Idaho’s writer-in-residence and a central piece of Boise’...

29 Aug 20171h 2min

Journalist and writer Roberto Lovato has spent his life running toward -- rather than away from -- conflict. Through it all, he has never stopped seeking the truth and has never wavered from his belie...

22 Aug 201755min

Critically-acclaimed poet, Grotto member and former New York Times poetry editor Matthew Zapruder releases his newest book, Why Poetry?, today. To celebrate, we're revisiting his April interview with ...

15 Aug 201746min

Laura Fraser is, among other things, a best-selling memoirist; an instinctive muckraking journalist; a celebrated travel writer; the founder of Shebooks, a publishing imprint dedicated to women author...

8 Aug 201757min