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Wolf Podcast
Episode 055: Three Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
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 l...
2026-02-04
1h 06
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine—Episode 24: Red Country (Part 1/2)
Welcome again, one and all, to The Fantasy Pod the Nine!A biweekly show where we tackle a variety of fantasy series from a diverse selection of authors and sub-genres. We bravely soldier on through the world of the First Law with our third book of Joe Abercrombie’s second grimdark trilogy—now trekking through parts both unknown and untraveled, beyond the bounds of empire in... Red Country!!—Covering chapters 1 through 22— - - - - - - - - Send all qu...
2026-02-03
1h 06
Wolf Podcast
Episode 054: Ulysses by James Joyce
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...
2026-01-14
1h 27
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine—Episode 23: The Heroes (Part 3/3)
Welcome again, one and all, to The Fantasy Pod the Nine!A biweekly show where we tackle a variety of fantasy series from a diverse selection of authors and sub-genres. We are back in the world of the First Law with our second book of Joe Abercrombie’s second grimdark trilogy—heading back to The North to wrap up our visit with The Dogman, Black Dow, Caul Shivers, and all their many, many friends in... The Heroes!! - - - - - - - -
2026-01-13
1h 11
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine—Episode 22: The Heroes (Part 2/3)
Welcome — and Happy New Year! — one and all, to The Fantasy Pod the Nine!A biweekly show where we tackle a variety of fantasy series from a diverse selection of authors and sub-genres. We are back in the world of the First Law with our second book of Joe Abercrombie’s second grimdark trilogy—heading back to The North to visit The Dogman, Black Dow, Caul Shivers, and all their many, many friends in... The Heroes!! - - - - - - - - S...
2025-12-31
1h 03
Wolf Podcast
Episode 053: The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - Chapter One
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...
2025-12-31
1h 29
Wolf Podcast
Episode 052: Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway
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...
2025-12-17
1h 01
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine—Episode 21: The Heroes (Part 1/3)
Welcome, one and all, to The Fantasy Pod the Nine! A biweekly show where we tackle a variety of fantasy series from a diverse selection of authors and sub-genres. We are moving on in the world of the First Law with our second book of Joe Abercrombie’s second grimdark trilogy—heading back to The North to visit The Dogman, Black Dow, Caul Shivers, and all their many, many friends in... The Heroes!! - - - - - - - - Send all ques...
2025-12-16
1h 05
Wolf Podcast
Episode 051: Anti-capitalism vs. The Man of Flowers
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. Ever...
2025-12-03
1h 15
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine—Episode 20: Best Served Cold (OUR Part 4/4)
Welcome again, one and all, to episode 20 of The Fantasy Pod of the Nine! A biweekly show where two writerly hosts (Joe Owens and Eddy Rathke) tackle a variety of fantasy series from a diverse selection of authors and sub-genres.Do you still like Revenge Stories™ as much as we do?!Because we are BACK to the World of the First Law with Joe Abercrombie’s SECOND grimdark trilogy. Join us as we trek ever onward, covering part seven of seven—the finale!—of Best Served Co...
2025-12-02
47 min
Wolf Podcast
Episode 050: In Bludd by Jeffrey Ford
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...
2025-11-19
1h 03
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine—Episode 19: Best Served Cold (OUR Part 3/4)
Welcome again, one and all, to episode 19 of The Fantasy Pod of the Nine! A biweekly show where two writerly hosts (Joe Owens and Eddy Rathke) tackle a variety of fantasy series from a diverse selection of authors and sub-genres.Do you still like Revenge Stories™ as much as we do?!Because we are BACK to the World of the First Law kicking off Joe Abercrombie’s SECOND grimdark trilogy. Join us as we trek ever onward, covering parts five and six (of seven*) of Best Served Cold!
2025-11-18
1h 13
Wolf Podcast
Episode 049: Conan: The Board Game and RPG with Matthew John
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.L...
2025-11-12
1h 20
Wolf Podcast
Episode 048: Soldiers by Mary Miller
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 McS...
2025-11-05
1h 05
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine—Episode 18: Best Served Cold (OUR Part 2/4)
Welcome again, one and all, to episode 18 of The Fantasy Pod of the Nine! A biweekly show where two writerly hosts (Joe Owens and Eddy Rathke) tackle a variety of fantasy series from a diverse selection of authors and sub-genres.Do you still like Revenge Stories™ as much as we do?!Because we are BACK to the World of the First Law kicking off Joe Abercrombie’s SECOND grimdark trilogy. Join us as we soldier on, covering parts three and four (of seven*) of Best Served Cold!...
2025-11-03
1h 20
Wolf Podcast
Episode 047: EVIL DEAD
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 mo...
2025-10-29
1h 00
Wolf Podcast
Episode 046: Three Views of a Parking Lot by Ken Liu
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 spec...
2025-10-22
1h 34
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine—Episode 17: Best Served Cold (OUR Part 1/4)
Welcome again, one and all, to episode 17 of The Fantasy Pod of the Nine! A biweekly show where two writerly hosts (Joe Owens and Eddy Rathke) will be tackling a variety of fantasy series from a diverse selection of authors and sub-genres.Do you like Revenge Stories™ as much as we do?!Because we are BACK to the World of the First Law kicking off Joe Abercrombie’s SECOND grimdark trilogy. Join us as we cover parts one and two (of seven*) of Best Served Cold!...
2025-10-20
1h 03
Wolf Podcast
Episode 045: BEATLEMANIA - A Hard Day's Night
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 deve...
2025-10-15
1h 21
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine—Episode 16: THE DEVILS (Pt. 4/4)
Welcome again, one and all, to episode 16 of The Fantasy Pod… of THE DEVILS! A biweekly show where two writerly hosts (Joe Owens and Eddy Rathke) tackle a variety of fantasy series from a diverse selection of authors and sub-genres. We’re taking a brief break from the world of the First Law—though not leaving grimdark behind just yet, we promise!—and wrapping up our coverage of Joe Abercrombie’s first entry his newest series, The Devils!, covering chapters 52, “End of the Road," through Chapter 72, “Saint Tabitha’s D...
2025-10-06
1h 04
Wolf Podcast
Episode 044: Obsession by Dan Hallagan of Kayenta Games
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...
2025-10-01
1h 20
Wolf Podcast
Episode 043: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow - First Four Paragraphs
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 Bar...
2025-09-24
1h 07
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine
The Fantasy Pod of the Nine—Episode 15: THE DEVILS (Pt. 3/4)
Welcome again, one and all, to episode 15 of The Fantasy Pod… of THE DEVILS! A biweekly show where two writerly hosts (Joe Owens and Eddy Rathke) tackle a variety of fantasy series from a diverse selection of authors and sub-genres. We’re taking a brief break from the world of the First Law—though not leaving grimdark behind just yet, we promise!—and continuing our coverage of Joe Abercrombie’s first entry his newest series, The Devils!, covering chapters 31, “Strange Bedfellows," through Chapter 51, “A Miraculous Medicine.”...
2025-09-22
1h 10
Wolf Podcast
Episode 042: Battleborn Magazine with Sean CW Korsgaard
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 tou...
2025-09-17
56 min
Wolf Podcast
Episode 041: Suplex & Sorcery by June Orchid Parker
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 gu...
2025-09-10
58 min
Wolf Podcast
Episode 040: The Return of Jay Springett
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 crea...
2025-08-27
1h 25
Wolf Podcast
Episode 039: Eradicator by David Simmons
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, g...
2025-08-20
1h 18
Wolf Podcast
Episode 038: Oliver Brackenbury of New Edge Sword & Sorcery
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.Liste...
2025-08-13
1h 13
Wolf Podcast
Episode 037: Light Travels at the Highest Possible Velocity by Sherman Alexie
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 201...
2025-08-06
1h 45
Wolf Podcast
Episode 036: Cole Wehrle of Leder Games and Wehrlegig Games
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 ga...
2025-07-30
1h 38
Wolf Podcast
Episode 035: The City of Tears by Molly Tanzer
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 st...
2025-07-23
1h 30
Wolf Podcast
Episode 034: Patrick Holleman of Something Classic Games
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 go...
2025-07-16
1h 14
Wolf Podcast
Episode 033: Sometime Lofty Towers by David C Smith
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!Spea...
2025-07-09
59 min
Wolf Podcast
Episode 032: The Return of J David Osborne
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...
2025-07-02
1h 57
Wolf Podcast
Episode 031: Last Ditch Effort by Grant Wamack
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. Everyt...
2025-06-25
1h 13
Wolf Podcast
Episode 030: Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O by Michael Swanwick
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...
2025-06-11
1h 27
Wolf Podcast
Episode 029: BEATLEMANIA - With the Beatles
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 influ...
2025-06-04
1h 18
Wolf Podcast
Episode 028: The Tugwort by Lincoln Michel
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, Kyle Muntz and I are discussing the short story The Tugwort by Lincoln Michel! He’s the author of Upright Beasts, a short story collection, and the novels The Body Scout and The Metallic Realms. The Metallic Realms just came out on May 13th so go pick up a copy! You can find more at his website and his newsletter Counter Craft.Along with the story, we discuss the uncanny, surrealism, imagery as a narrative engine, and so much more.If you’d like...
2025-05-28
1h 30
Wolf Podcast
Episode 027: The Goblin by Johan Nohr
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m talking with Johan Nohr! He’s the artistic vision behind Mork Borg, a doommetal TTRPG that has spawned an enormous community. He’s done quite a lot of art and design for other games as well, but today we’re talking about his short story The Goblin, which is available for free on his itch page, with a physical version available here.We spend a lot of time discussing creativity and the strengths of a community, process as art, and what can be learned...
2025-05-21
1h 24
Wolf Podcast
Episode 026: Noah's Raven by Kij Johnson
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, Kyle Muntz and I are discussing the short story Noah’s Raven by Kij Johnson! She’s an the author of dozens of short stories and novels, and the winner of Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy Awards, along with the Theodore A Sturgeon Award, among others. Her most recent books are the short story collection The Privilege of the Happy Ending and her novel The River Bank, a sequel to one of my favorite novels, The Wind in the Willows. She’s also the designer of the Tabletop RPG Th...
2025-05-14
1h 43
Wolf Podcast
Episode 025: BEATLEMANIA - Please Please Me
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, we’re doing something entirely different. Rather than discuss stories or books, my good friend Bart Larsen and I are beginning our journey through the albums of the Beatles. We’ll be taking an album by album approach to highlight how the most influential band of the 20th Century developed and became what they became. We start here with their first album.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess.Listen on Spotify or Apple or wherever you list...
2025-05-07
1h 25
Wolf Podcast
Episode 024: Shadows Below Seaway Trains by Ai Jiang
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, Kyle Muntz and I are discussing the short story Shadows Below Seaway Trains by Ai Jiang! She’s the author of dozens of short stories and some upcoming novels and novellas. Most recently, A Palace Near the Wind.Given the themes of the short story, we end up discussing parenthood quite a bit, along with a number of other things, including Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Pokemon, societal expectations, and so on.If you’d like to recommend a story for us to...
2025-04-30
1h 33
Wolf Podcast
Episode 023: Jordan Holt
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m speaking with J. Holt, an illustrator, comicbook writer and artist, gamemaker, and professor. I stumbled across his work on twitter and fell in love with the fact that he was sharing his process for developing and drawing a graphic novel set in Anglo-Saxon era England. You can follow him on his substack and twitter or check out Carthage Workshop, where you can order copies of his card game Panomachea or the first two volumes of his graphic novel Theseus. You can also read Theseus for fr...
2025-04-23
1h 36
Wolf Podcast
Episode 022: Roller Coaster House by Kyle Seibel
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, Kyle Muntz and I are discussing the short story Roller Coaster House by Kyle Seibel, which was originally published at HAD. You can pick up his debut collection Hey You A******s 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....
2025-04-16
1h 25
Wolf Podcast
Episode 021: Gods Fare No Better by J David Osborne
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 his upcoming novel Gods Fare No Better, scheduled to be released April 17th.Along the way we discuss a host of topics, from editing, finding your voice, being an obsessive little freak, and, of course, the best novel of the year, Gods Fare No Better.Pre-order it here! Subscribe to David’s website here.If you’d like to recommend a story fo...
2025-04-10
1h 22
Wolf Podcast
Episode 020: Shriek of the Week by Nick Mamatas
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, Kyle Muntz and I are discussing the short story Shriek of the Week by Nick Mamatas. You can read this story in 120 Murders from Ruadan Books. You can get Nick’s story if you pre-order now! You can also pre-order his upcoming novel Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest from Clash Books.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 w...
2025-04-02
1h 31
Wolf Podcast
Episode 019: Whitefish for Luna by Charlene Elsby
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, Kyle Muntz and I are discussing the short story Whitefish for Luna by Charlene Elsby! It’s the first story in her most recent collection Red Flags. Pick up her new novel The Organization is Here to Support You! And you should also check out Violent Faculties, which is fantastic.Kyle calls this the best pet story he’s ever read, which should give you an indication of how we feel about it! We touch on a wide array of topics, including the art of sitc...
2025-03-19
1h 36
Wolf Podcast
Episode 018: Cursed Moon Queers by Natalia Theodoridou
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, Kyle Muntz and I are discussing the short story Cursed Moon Queers by Natalia Theodoridou published by Uncanny Magazine in September 2024.This is our longest episode yet! We talk a lot about narrative payoff, stylistic choices, genre conventions between literary and science fiction, interpretive texts, and this leads us to a host of other topics, like queerness, Tales of Neveryon by Samuel R Delany, and on and on and on. I do think this is one of our most interesting episodes.If you’d...
2025-03-05
1h 39
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Main fiction: "The Ganymede Blues" by e rathkee rathke writes about books and games at radicaledward.substack.com. A finalist for the Baen Fantasy Adventure Award and recipient of the Diverse Worlds Grant, he is the author of Glossolalia, Howl, and the space opera series The Shattered Stars. His short fiction appears in Mysterion Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and elsewhere. This story originally appeared in Luminescent Machinations: Queer Tales of Monumental Invention, Rhiannon Rasmussen & Dave Ring, eds.Narrated by: Diane Severson MoriDiane Severson Mori is a lyric soprano specializing in Early...
2025-03-05
48 min
Wolf Podcast
Episode 017: The Sequence by Brian Evenson
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, Kyle Muntz and I are speaking with award winning short story writer and novelist Brian Evenson! He’s the author of about twenty books, with his most recent being the collection Good Night, Sleep Tight. We’re discussing The Sequence, first published in Conjunctions and now collected in Good Night, Sleep Tight. Brian’s other books are available widely at Bookshop, Amazon, and bookstores near you.We discuss fairy stories, story structure, horror, genre styles and structures, and a host of other topics along the way. W...
2025-02-19
1h 14
Wolf Podcast
Episode 016: Father, Son, Holy Rabbit by Stephen Graham Jones
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, Kyle Muntz and I are speaking with the great Stephen Graham Jones about his short story Father, Son, Holy Rabbit, which first appeared in The Ones That Got Away. Stephen is the bestselling author of a whole slew of books. My personal favorite is Ledfeather but he’s likely best known for his bestselling and award winning Indian Lake Trilogy.Many people recommended that we discuss this story specifically so I’m glad Stephen was willing to come and share his insight. Along with the stor...
2025-02-05
1h 00
Wolf Podcast
Episode 015: The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, we’re premiering a new aspect to the show with my good friend Kyle Muntz. He’s the author of The Pain Eater and we cowrote The Shattered Stars and Sing, Behemoth, Sing. He also heads the Creative Writing program at NYU Shanghai.Today we are talking about Susanna Clarke’s new short story The Wood at Midwinter. We discuss children’s literature, 19th century literature, narrative techniques, point of view, Clarke’s oeuvre, Catholic saints, marketing, publishing as an industry, and so on. Come join us as...
2025-01-22
1h 15
Wolf Podcast
Episode 014: The Difference Engine
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today Paul Graham Raven is on the show to discuss William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s collaboration on 1990s The Difference Engine. Paul is a writer, academic, and worldbuilder. You can find more of his writing at his website, newsletter, and Read his interview with Bruce Sterling right here.Turning the clocks back to the early 90s, right before Gibson jumped into The Bridge Trilogy and right after he finished The Sprawl Trilogy, we have The Difference Engine. This is a very different novel in...
2025-01-08
1h 56
Wolf Podcast
Episode 013: Agency
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today Kelby Losack and J David Osborne are back! This episode is a collaboration with their Agitator podcast. It’s also condensed down just to the conversation about Agency. If you want to hear the full almost two hour conversation, which gets into AI, Mike Tyson v Jake Paul, and the Trump election, head on over to patreon.com/agitator. Today, we’re onto Agency, book two in William Gibson’s Jackpot Trilogy. This is a book we actively hated.Come hear why.Musi...
2024-12-11
41 min
Wolf Podcast
Episode 012: The Peripheral
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today Kelby Losack is back! He’s a writer, voice actor, carpenter, cover artist (he does all the covers for my Howl series), and cohost of the Agitator podcast with J David Osborne. He’s the author of the hillbilly cyberpunk masterpiece Mercy. Find more of him at his website. You can now get the rest of his books on Amazon again.Today, we’re onto The Peripheral, book one in William Gibson’s Jackpot Trilogy. This was a peculiar book and maybe the first that doesn’t...
2024-11-13
1h 20
Wolf Podcast
Episode 011: Zero History
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. Check out his recent appearance on the Ecogradia podcast! It’s great.Today, we’re onto Zero History, the conclusion to the Blue Ant trilogy, which feels like the most Blue Anty of the books in the trilogy.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess. Get full access to Wol...
2024-10-16
1h 33
Agitator
[PREVIEW] TOWER DUNGEON / WUXIA AND XIANXIA with Eddy Rathke
The whitest Agitators you know (JDO and Eddy Rathke) bring you this episode in Kelby's absence. Talking: the pros and cons of ****, Tsutomu Nihei's Tower Dungeon, the Chinese genres Wuxia and Xianxia, Wuxiaworld, a reminder to leave the writing community, book clubs with HVAC techs, cultivation novels, what non-writers are looking for from writing, and more.Subscribe to Eddy's Substack: radicaledward.substack.com
2024-10-01
05 min
Wolf Podcast
Episode 010: Spook Country
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. Check out his recent appearance on the Ecogradia podcast! It’s great.Today, we’re onto Spook Country, which reminded me more of Gibson’s previous novels. And so your mileage may vary with that, but I think it’s a bit of a reversion.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess....
2024-09-18
1h 33
Wolf Podcast
Episode 009: Pattern Recognitions
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 onto Pattern Recognition, the first novel in the Blue Ant Trilogy. We talk about the internet, Gibson’s career more broadly, and a host of other things. Here’s the interview with Gibson that Jay mentions as well.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess. Get full...
2024-08-14
1h 35
Wolf Podcast
Episode 008: All Tomorrow's Parties
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today I’m talking with Kelby Losack, writer, voice actor, carpenter, cover artist (he does all the covers for my Howl series), and cohost of the Agitator podcast with J David Osborne. He’s the author of the hillbilly cyberpunk masterpiece Mercy. Find more of him at his website.Today, we’re onto All Tomorrow’s Parties, book three in William Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy. Once again, thirty years ago Gibson seemed to be writing a book about today, which is fascinating. Here we have a convergenc...
2024-07-17
1h 33
Wolf Podcast
Episode 007: Idoru
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today I’m talking with Kelby Losack, writer, voice actor, carpenter, cover artist (he does all the covers for my Howl series), and cohost of the Agitator podcast with J David Osborne. He’s the author of the hillbilly cyberpunk masterpiece Mercy. Find more of him at his website.Today, we’re onto Idoru, book two in William Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy. Rarely has a book felt more like it’s about the internet as we experience it today and so we talk a lot about the intern...
2024-06-12
1h 35
Wolf Podcast
Episode 006: Virtual Light
Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today I’m talking with Kelby Losack, writer, voice actor, carpenter, cover artist (he does all the covers for my Howl series), and cohost of the Agitator podcast with J David Osborne. He’s the author of the hillbilly cyberpunk masterpiece Mercy. Find more of him at his website.Today, we begin The Bridge Trilogy with 1993’s Virtual Light by William Gibson.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/su...
2024-05-22
1h 27
Wolf Podcast
Episode 005: Johnny Mnemonic
Welcome to the fourth Wolf Podcast.Today I’m talking with the one and only David Simmons, author of Ghosts of East Baltimore and Ghosts of West Baltimore, and we’re talking about the 1995 movie adaptation of William Gibson’s 1981 short story of the same name. This is a funny one.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe
2024-05-08
1h 04
Wolf Podcast
Episode 004: Burning Chrome
Welcome to the fourth Wolf Podcast.Today I’m talking with Jayson Young from the Mangaroos! It’s a great show where the hosts read the first issue of a manga in Japanese and then discuss it in English. Check it out!We’re talking William Gibson’s Burning Chrome, his short story collection. There are some intersections between some of these stories and the Sprawl Trilogy I previously discussed. The collection is…well, not our favorite! Let’s just leave it at that for now.We discuss our various issues with Gibson’s stories and...
2024-04-17
1h 24
The Getting Lit Podcast
*PREVIEW* Dhalgren (Rare Candy Gain of Fiction 30 feat. Matt Sini and E Rathke)
Send us a textThis is a cross post from Rare Candy's Gain of Fiction series featuring yours truly as well as former guest Eddy Rathke, hosted by Glen and Psi from RC. We look at Samuel R. Delany's classic and very wild science fiction experimental novel, Dhalgren.To access the full episode as well as Getting Lit Podcast's aftershow, Back Matter, go to patreon.com/gettinglit.Enjoy!Follow Rare Candy: https://rarecandy.substack.com/And Eddy: https://radicaledward.substack.com/Support the show
2024-04-11
44 min
Wolf Podcast
Episode 003: Mona Lisa Overdrive
Welcome to the third Wolf Podcast.Today I’m talking with J David Osborne, the Founder of Broken River Books. Find him at his substack The Broken River Writers' Collective and on tiktok at @brbjdo. He’s also the author of a number of books, including the cyberpunk series Gods Fare No Better. One of my favorite writers and a long time friend.We’re talking William Gibson’s Mona Lisa Overdrive, the final book in the Sprawl trilogy. It functions as a sequel to both Neuromancer and Count Zero, picking up characters from both and thro...
2024-03-13
1h 31
Wolf Podcast
Episode 002: Count Zero
Welcome to the second Wolf Podcast.Today I’m talking with J David Osborne, the Founder of Broken River Books. Find him at his substack The Broken River Writers' Collective and on tiktok at @brbjdo. He’s also the author of a number of books, including the cyberpunk series Gods Fare No Better. One of my favorite writers and a long time friend.We’re talking William Gibson’s Count Zero, which is the sequel to Neuromancer and, I think, a much better novel. We run through this bad boy and find things to love and hate...
2024-02-14
1h 16
Wolf Podcast
Episode 001: Neuromancer
Welcome to the inaugural Wolf Podcast.Today I’m talking with J David Osborne, the Founder of Broken River Books. Find him at his substack The Broken River Writers' Collective and on tiktok at @brbjdo. He’s also the author of a number of books, including the cyberpunk series Gods Fare No Better. One of my favorite writers and a long time friend.We’re talking William Gibson’s Neuromancer, one of the most important books of the late 20th century. Probably doesn’t even require an introduction. This is a book that I (in)famously d...
2024-01-17
1h 15
The Getting Lit Podcast
Sally Rooney Trilogy II: People of Normie Experience feat. E Rathke
Send us a textWriter E Rathke joins me for the second part of the Sally Rooney series, where we look at Sal's second novel, Normal People.We chat about the internet and writing, commercial fiction, chick lit, Trojan-horsing fucked up shit into normal looking genres, writing craft, and much more.Follow Eddy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/radicalyddeSubscribe to Eddy's Substack: https://radicaledward.substack.com/ Buy Eddy's books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0BCDS32BH/allbooks?ingress=0&visitId=940b840a-d75b-4b9a-8b3c-d33e004647fe...
2023-11-26
2h 02
Agitator
[PREVIEW] 117 - Loki Doki Cliterature Dub (ft. e rathke)
Agitator is a freestyle audio novel, a modern retelling of the Rocky Balboa story starring two mystic juggalo weebs. In this chapter: we're talking Team Salvato's 2017 freeware visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club! with author, game writer, and homie E Rathke. Is it as scary as people are saying? Does it live up to the hype? Who is the target audience for a twisted interactive horror novel/dating simulator starring kawaii anime schoolgirls? We also talk a lot of shit that would throttle the SEO (in other words, it's a banger). Listen to...
2023-11-09
05 min
Agitator
[PREVIEW] 96 - REJECTED by CD Projekt Red! Too Hard for the Cyberpunk Sequel
In loving memory of Kahlua.Our Broken River collaborator and good friend E Rathke joins us to talk about how all three of us were recently shot down in an open call to work with CD Projekt Red. What do you do with rejection? Is there a point to the effort even if it doesn't turn out how you'd hoped? We explore all this as well as chop it up a bit about Cyberpunk 2077 and some things we would like to see added in the sequel. We also talk a bit about the work of Stephen Graham...
2023-06-08
05 min