Don’t miss this one! For the first time, BQ goes solo as host -- and she’s talking with influential author and body-image activist Virgie Tovar, who is dropping the truth bombs. Tovar talks writing honestly and writing to empower,

This week, BQ and Larry are joined by high-quality, low-maintenance, independent writer and editor (and GrottoPod producer) Beth Winegarner for a podcast that tracks Beth’s career as a writer, reporter, editor and student. In our conversation,

Listen up! This week we’re joined in the ‘Pod by fresh-off-the-plane-from-the-East-Coast author and widely sought speaker Katherine Reynolds Lewis. Her new book about contemporary childhood and its discontents, The Good News About Bad Behavior,

Things have never been livelier in the GrottoPod. This week, longtime Bay Area book author, editor and journalist Stephanie Rosenbaum Klassen enters the 'Pod bearing Pisco Punch (plus Meyer lemonade for BQ) and things unfold rather pleasantly from ther...

This week, acclaimed first-time novelist Aja Gabel takes a break from her hectic book tour to join the GrottoPod. In an hour between bookstore appearances, Gabel settles in to discuss how being a musician inspired her new book, The Ensemble,

For this week's episode, Vanessa Hua, author of the upcoming novel A River of Stars, takes the stage at the San Francisco Public Library with GrottoPod hosts Larry Rosen and Bridget Quinn to talk about her favorite book. In this case, it's books,

Some writers have day jobs; some teachers write “on the side.” Gordon Jack does both -- and neither. On the one hand, he spent more than a decade as a classroom teacher, has taught teachers and is now a high school librarian. On the other,

Let's say you're on a summer hike and a grizzly crosses your path. Would you know what to do? Rachel Levin does. (Which is not to say she wants to encounter a bear!) Her new book, Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters,

Crime may not pay, but Paul Drexler has discovered that becoming an expert on crime does. Introduced to true crime when his uncle’s car was used in a New Jersey mob killing, Drexler is now a writer, video game developer,

What hasn’t Caroline Paul done? A one-time collegiate rower and Olympic-caliber luger, Paul has published non-fiction and historic fiction, books about stalking her cat, a memoir about being one of the first women to join the San Francisco Fire Departm...