Wolf Podcast

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 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 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 free. His youtube channel is also well worth checking out.In this episode, we talk about a great many things, including Anglo-Saxon England, language, translation, Greek myths, the beauty and joy of process, the importance of process, creativity as both a gift and a habit, and how to do all these things while being a parent.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 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.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 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 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 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 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 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 sitcoms, Larry David, the lines of horror, the long shadow of James Joyce, how stories often come out of our real lives, narrative structures, and a variety of 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 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 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. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

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. We had a slight technical hiccup around the 55 minute mark, but hopefully nothing too noticeable.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. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

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 story, we discuss genre distinctions, fatherhood, childhood, rabbit starving, Gordon Lish and Raymond Carver, writing as a process and act of discovery, story goals, and so on.Stephen also mentioned Catherynne M Valente’s Planet Lion and Gene Wolfe’s Fish Story.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. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe

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 we take a close read of a very unusual short story.Music by Bart Larsen. Everything else done by me, I guess. Get full access to Wolf at radicaledward.substack.com/subscribe