Wolf Podcast

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m back with my cohost Kyle Muntz! We’re discussing several pieces of microfiction by Franz Kafka! This leads us to Kafka’s career as a whole, the nature of a story and the power of a name, and the strength of mundanity.* Give It Up* Resolutions* On the Tram* The Sudden Walk* Reflections for Gentlemen-JockeyPlease check out Songs of my Mother being serialized on Royal Road!If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m back with my cohost Kyle Muntz! Today we’re discussing Pierre Menard by Jorge Luis Borges! This leads us to a broad discussion of literature, people’s attitudes and beliefs about literature, and the playfulness of Borges.Here’s my story Renaissance, which was my attempt at a Borgesian story.Please check out Songs of my Mother being serialized on Royal Road!Check out Briar Bay, a Mork Borg/OSR setting zine live right now on Kickstarter!If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.It’s been a while since I’ve talked to a game designer, but that all changes today! I’m talking with Andrew Fischer, the designer of Earthborne Rangers, The Cosmere RPG, and others. We spend most of the time discussing his game Earthborne Rangers, especially system, narrative, and mechanical design. Please check out Songs of my Mother being serialized on Royal Road!Check out Briar Bay, a Mork Borg/OSR setting zine live right now on Kickstarter!If you’d like to recommend a story or game for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m back with my cohost Kyle Muntz! Today we’re discussing three poems by Edgar Allan Poe! You can read The Bells, The Haunted Palace, and The City in the Sea. We’re discussing music! We’re discussing meter! We’re discussing rhyme scheme and enjambment and caesura!All good poetics.Please check out Songs of my Mother being serialized on Royal Road!Check out Briar Bay, a Mork Borg/OSR setting zine live right now on Kickstarter!If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m back with my cohost Kyle Muntz! Today we’re discussing the most famous and controversial books of all time, Ulysses by James Joyce! Our discussion today doesn’t cover the whole book or even the whole chapter but instead just examines various passages from the first chapter.I’ve previously written about Joyce a number of times:* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* ULYSSES* Cormac and JamesIf you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m back with my cohost Kyle Muntz! Today we’re discussing the most interesting novel by Haruki Murakami, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle! We use this as an opportunity to discuss Murakami’s career and our history with him as readers. You can read my previous thoughts here:If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m back with my cohost Kyle Muntz! Today we’re discussing one of the most famous stories of the 20th Century. Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway! Often taught, often discussed, but never by us! We also suspect that it, like Hemingway, is quite out of fashion. So let us take this hour to explain to you why it is great, and possibly not for the reasons you think.If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m back with my cohost Kyle Muntz! Today we’re talking about Anti-capitalism vs. The Man of Flowers by Naomi Kanakia. She’s the author of four novels, including The Default World, and the upcoming What’s So Great About the Great Books? She’s also the author of the newsletter Woman of Letters where she discusses Great Books, among other things. If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, Kyle Muntz is doing the episode solo! He’s discussing In Bludd with the great Jeffrey Ford! Jeffrey Ford is the author of numerous novels and short story collections, including The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Girl in the Glass, The Shadow Year, Ahab’s Return, Out of Body, The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, and Big Dark Hole. Ford’s fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies, such as Tor.com, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, McSweeney’s, and The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, and has been widely translated. It has garnered World Fantasy, Edgar Allan Poe, Shirley Jackson, and Nebula Awards and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m talking with writer and game designer Matthew John! He has worked on a number of games, including one of my favorite board games, Conan from Monolith. He’s also the lead designer for the Conan: The Hyborean Age RPG also published by Monolith. Check out his Maxus Cycle series of Sword & Sorcery stories as well!If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m back with my cohost Kyle Muntz! Today we’re talking about Soldiers by Marry Miller! Mary Miller grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of two collections of short stories, Big World (Short Flight/Long Drive Books, 2009), and Always Happy Hour (Liveright, 2017), as well as the novels The Last Days of California (Liveright, 2014) and Biloxi (Liveright, 2019). Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Pushcart Prize XLIV, the Oxford American, New Stories from the South, Norton’s Seagull Book of Stories, The Best of McSweeney’s Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Mississippi Review, and many others. She is a former James A. Michener Fellow in Fiction at the University of Texas and John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi with her husband, Lucky, and her dog, Winter.If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, we’re doing something entirely different, talking the movie Evil Dead!We’re beginning a new kind of episode where I discuss old horror movies with my good friend David Simmons, notorious hater of all things old. David is the author of some of my favorite novels, including his most recent novel Eradicator. Check out the rest of his books.For the Evil Dead series, we’re also joined by our good friend Grant Wamack! Grant has a whole bag of books, with his most recent being The Scarecrows Will Watch Over Us. Check out the rest of his books.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels and sign up to be notified for when his kickstarter goes live.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m back with my cohost Kyle Muntz! Today we’re talking about Three View of a Parking Lot by Ken Liu published at The Sunday Morning Transport. We have a wide ranging discussion about the story that leads to how contemporary society deals with political problems, the structure, shape, and purpose of cities, and what consciousness and civilization is.Check out his new novel All That We See or Seem, which was released last week!Ken Liu is an American author of speculative fiction. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards for his fiction, he has also won top genre honors abroad in Japan, Spain, and France.Liu’s most characteristic work is the four-volume epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty, in which engineers, not wizards, are the heroes of a silkpunk world on the verge of modernity. His debut collection of short fiction, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. A second collection, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, followed. He also penned the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker. His latest book is All That We See or Seem, a techno-thriller starring an AI-whispering hacker who saves the world.If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, we’re back with the Beatles! It’s been a few months but we have not forgotten!We’re discussing their third album A Hard Day’s Night. In some important ways, this feels like the start to the Beatles and who they will become as a band, in part because it’s the first album where every song is written by Lennon and McCartney.We’re taking an album by album approach to highlight how the most influential band of the 20th Century developed and became what they became. Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m talking with Dan Hallagan of Kayenta Games! He’s the designer of one of my absolute favorite games, Obsession, which is in Board Game Geek’s coveted Top 100 games! It’s a wondrous game and a towering achievement, as he captures 19th Century literature in a boardgame.Check out his new Kickstarter campaign which will be starting soon!If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m back with my cohost Kyle Muntz! For the first time in months, we don’t have a guest today! Because of that, we’re doing a very close reading of the first four paragraphs of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. The man and the novel need no introduction, so come and dive in with us as we dig into the style of these luxurious sentences.If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today I’m talking with Sean CW Korsgaard, Army Veteran, award-winning photojournalist, and editor about his new Sword & Sorcery Magazine Battleborn! It’s currently being crowdfunded on Indigogo, with many stretch goals promising more fiction, more issues, and on and on.We talk about his prior careers, what brought him to publishing and specifically sword & sorcery, why crowdfunding, and so much more.Go check out the campaign right now!If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m back with my cohost Kyle Muntz! We’re talking with June Orchid Parker and the first chapter of her upcoming novella Suplex & Sorcery currently being crowdfunded! Pro wrestling mixed with sword & sorcery—what could be better?Listen to the first chapter narrated here! And help bring the project to life on backerkit right now!If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today I’m talking with Jay Springett, writer, thinker, worldrunner, and podcaster. You can find him at his website, his Permanently Moved podcast, or on substack at Experience.Computer.Today, we’re talking about 301 episodes of his Permanently Moved podcast! We talk about physical media, the end of an era, of an entire creative project, and what that has meant for him as a person, and then what comes next. Check out and subscribe to his zines, which will be a big part of his ongoing creative projects.If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m back with my cohost Kyle Muntz! We’re talking with my good friend David Simmons about his new novel Eradicator out right now from Apocalypse Party! He’s the author of Ghosts of East Baltimore and Ghosts of West Baltimore as well as numerous short stories. He’s one of the very best.Check out his new novel and listen to us do a deep dive on the first chapter.If you’d like to recommend a story for us to discuss, get in touch.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.Check out our SF series The Shattered Stars.Check out eddy’s novels.And Kyle’s novels. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe