Wolf Podcast

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Aug 6, 2025 • 1h 46min

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 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
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Jul 30, 2025 • 1h 39min

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 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
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Jul 23, 2025 • 1h 30min

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 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
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Jul 16, 2025 • 1h 15min

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 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
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Jul 9, 2025 • 60min

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!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
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Jul 2, 2025 • 1h 57min

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 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
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Jun 25, 2025 • 1h 13min

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. 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
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Jun 11, 2025 • 1h 27min

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’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
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Jun 4, 2025 • 1h 18min

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 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
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May 28, 2025 • 1h 31min

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 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

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