Wolf Podcast

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast.Today, I’m back with my cohost Kyle Muntz and Joe Owens, the host of the other podcast I’m part of The Fantasy Pod of the Nine! We’re doing a crossover episode to discuss a story from Joe Abercrombie’s Two’s Company from his short story collection Sharp Ends. From there we range far afield to grimdark as a genre, Abercrombie more broadly, George RR Martin, and on and on.Please 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! 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