Wolf Podcast

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

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m talking with Oliver Brackenbury, the editor and publisher of New Edge Sword & Sorcery! We’re talking about the resurgence of Sword & Sorcery as a genre, the business of publishing, the power of crowdfunding, and so much more.And here’s the cover for Bryn Hammond’s new novella with New Edge Sword & Sorcery!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 check out my kickstarter.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 to Sherman Alexie about his short story Light Travels at the Highest Possible Velocity published at The Metropolitan Review!Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, memoirist, and filmmaker. He’s published two dozen books, including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which won the National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature and was listed by the American Library Association as the Most Banned and Challenged Book from 2010 to 2019. He also won the PEN-Faulkner and PEN-Malamud Awards. He wrote and co-produced Smoke Signals, the feature film that won the 1998 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy and is preserved in the Library of Congress National Film Registry).My Kickstarter campaign for my new sword and sorcery novel is currently fully funded! Join the campaign and let’s get some stretch goals here too.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 Cole Wehrle the celebrated game designer of Root, Arcs, and John Company! He’s the Creative Director and lead game designer of Leder Games based in my home state of Minnesota, and the c-founder of Wehrlegig Games. Root is one of my all time favorite board games and one of the few board games I’ve reviewed on my newsletter, so it’s a treat and pleasure to have Cole on today. Check out his newest game, Molly House!We talk about games, narrative design, books, and so much more.My Kickstarter campaign for my new sword and sorcery novel is currently fully funded! Join the campaign and let’s get some stretch goals here too. We’re into the final week, so check it out!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 check out my kickstarter.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 to Molly Tanzer about her novelette The City of Tears! She is the author of the Diabolist’s Library trilogy, the weird western Vermilion, an io9 and NPR “Best Book” of 2015, and the British Fantasy Award-nominated collection, A Pretty Mouth.My Kickstarter campaign for my new sword and sorcery novel is currently fully funded! Join the campaign and let’s get some stretch goals here too.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 Patrick Holleman of Something Classic Games! Check out their new game Quartet. You can play the demo and wishlist their game on Steam right now!We’re talking JRPGs. We’re talking game design. We’re talking narrative design. This was a fun and insightful episode with someone who has thought a lot about games and narrative. My Kickstarter campaign for my new sword and sorcery novel is currently fully funded! Join the campaign and let’s get some stretch goals here too.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 check out my kickstarter.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 the legendary David C Smith! A prolific writer of sword and sorcery novels, he’s back with Sometime Lofty Towers, which is currently being crowdfunded on Backerkit! The novel is fully funded and now they’re heading towards stretchgoals.We do a deep dive on the first chapter of his new novel, discussing process, dialogue, the energy of a text, and so much more. This is a great novel and truly a masterclass on dialogue. Check out the crowdfunding campaign!Speaking of crowdfunding, my Kickstarter campaign for my new sword and sorcery novel was funded last night! Join the campaign and let’s get some stretch goals here too.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 check out my kickstarter.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 speaking with my good friend J David Osborne, the founder of Broken River Books. We’re speaking about the marketing he’s done for his novel Gods Fare No Better and the ways he’s tried to sell this novel to audiences.Along the way we discuss a host of topics more oriented to the business side of being a novelist.Pre-order it here! Subscribe to David’s website here or his newsletter American Shinto!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 his new kickstarter!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 Kyle Muntz to discuss Grant Wamack’s new short story Last Ditch Effort published in Bruiser Magazine!Grant is one of my good friends in The Broken River Writers' Collective and the author of a whole mess of novels. You can check them out at his Amazon page, but definitely check out his most recent novel, The Frolicking.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 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, Kyle Muntz is doing the episode solo! He’s discussing Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O with the great Michael Swanwick! Michael is the award winning author of numerous books, including The Iron Dragon’s Daughter, The Dragons of Babel, and The Iron Dragon’s Mother. His short fiction has been published widely for decades, and he’s the winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Award, multiple Nebula, World Fantasy, Hugo, and Locus Awards, among many others. You can read Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O in the Tales of Old Earth collection.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.Unfortunately, there was a bit of a recording issue on my side so there’s some echoing near the end of this episode.Today, we’re discussing With the Beatles by The Beatles, their second album. There’s a lot to love on this album but there’s also a lot of weaknesses. This is the first time either of us had heard the album before, which led to an interesting discussion. 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. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe