ReReading Wolfe

Listener comments end at: 23:10 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" - PART 4 Statues! Autarchs! Demons! Links: * Facebook - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Part 4 - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Part 3 - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Part 2 - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Part 1 -   * Reddit - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Part 4 - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Part 3 - Chapter...

Listener comments end at: 50:30. The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" - PART 3 We push on! The Contessa sparks confusion and disagreement. Then we get theological. Links: * The Garden of Earthly Delights * Facebook - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Part 3 - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Part 2 - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Part 1 -   * Reddit - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Pa...

Listener comments end at: 29:45 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" - PART 2 We push on! We encounter Jahi and a statue. Craig and Marc Aramini grapple. James flounders. Links: * Facebook - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Part 2 - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Part 1 -   * Reddit - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Part 2 - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Part 1 - This episode is spo...

Listener comments end at: 37:05 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" - PART 1 Marc Aramini joins us at great event of the late Commonweath has come at last! Talos's play "Eschatology & Genesis!" We get started with it in this episode. We'll keep doing this for as long as it takes.  Links: * Facebook - Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" Part 1 - Chapter 23 "Jolenta" -   * Reddit - C...

Joan Gordon and Diane Lambert discuss the meaning and implication of the character Jolenta in The Book of the New Sun. Gordon wrote the first non-fiction book on Gene Wolfe's works. She's a teacher and scholar.  Lambert is a moderator of the Gene Wolfe Appreciation Society Facebook Group. She is also a teacher and a scholar.  - This episode is sponsored by The Male Gaze Travel Edition! - You can b...

Listener comments end at: 27:00 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 23 "Jolenta" Severian and Jolenta tour the House Absolute grounds. Absolutely nothing controversial happens. /sarcasm Links: * Facebook - Chapter 23 "Jolenta" - Chapter 22 "Personifications" -   * Reddit - Chapter 23 "Jolenta" - Chapter 22 "Personifications" - This episode is sponsored by Soporific Bedding and Beyond! - You can be...

The Darrell Schweitzer Interview Darrell Schweitzer has been a fanzine/genre magazine contributor and interviewer since the late 60s, a published author since the 70s and the editor of Weird Tales and various anthologies. He is considered a foremost anthologist of weird fiction, dark fantasy, and horror, having edited definitive collections of Lord Dunsany, H. P. Lovecraft, and Robert E. Howard. ...

Listener comments end at: 24:50 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 22 "Personifications" Dorcas puts Severian on the couch, but it seems she's the one who could benefit from analysis. Links: * Facebook - Chapter 22 "Personifications" - Chapter 21 "Hydromancy" -   * Reddit - Chapter 22 "Personifications" - Chapter 21 "Hydromancy" - This episode is sponsored by Gothic Garden Fixtures! - You can bec...

Nathan Carson: musician, agent, writer, Wolfe interviewer - nathancarson.rocks - Interview with Gene Wolfe - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.  2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both  3 Favorite Wolfe word  4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one.  5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any). - Do you want to get on our examinati...

Listener comments end at: 24:50 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 21 "Hydromancy" Severian reads a really, really big book and then gets his fortune told by the fountain. Links: * Facebook - Chapter 21 "Hydromancy" - Chapter 20 "Pictures" -   * Reddit - Chapter 21 Hydromancy - Chapter 20 Pictures  - This episode is sponsored by Tome Tombs! - You can become a patron and hear additional episodes a...

Listener comments end at: 13:05 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 20 "Pictures" Looking for the Green Room, Severian meets some old friends from the Citadel. Links: * Facebook - Chapter 20 "Pictures" - Chapter 19 "Closets"   -   * Reddit - Chapter 20 Pictures - Chapter 19 Closets - Reddit: Part 1 The Usefulness of Valeria - Reddit Part 2 The Geneology of Valeria - Reddit Part 3 The Valeria Train...

John Kissane considers what makes a Wolfe story special. - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.  2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both  3 Favorite Wolfe word  4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one.  5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any). - Do you want to get on our examination table? Shoot us an email at rereadingwolfe@gmai...

Listener comments end at: 30:35 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 19 "Closets" After Jonas disappeared into the mirror, Severian goes looking for his sword and encounters old friends and new ones. Links: * Facebook - Chapter 19 "Closets"   - Chapter 17b The Tale of the Student and His Son - Capricon Dispatch - Noodus' Crab C'thuhlu -   * Reddit - Chapter 19 Closets - A Mantis View on "The Studen...

Warning: almost no Wolfe content at all. James and Craig just sit around in the same room (for the first time ever) and talk about going to a relatively uneventful con. Never say we don't provide novel, exciting content. But we do throw around some ideas for a Wolfe-con near the end. And we mention books we bought and/or learned about: Damon Knight, Three Novels Humphrey Carter, Tolkien: A Biograp...

Listener comments end at: 30:35 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 17 parts 3, 4, & 5, "The Tale of the Student and His Son" Severian continues to read to Jonas from the "The Book of the Wonders of Urth and Sky:" "The Encounter with the Princess," "The Battle with the Ogre," and "The Death of the Student."   Links: * Facebook - Chapter 17b - Chapter 17a The Tale of the Student and His Son    - Re...

The story of a youth who encounters strange people in a moment of rebellion which sets them on a path to leave their family and their ideals behind.  Yes, that's Severian's story. It's also Sian's. - The Questions: 1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.  2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both  3 Favorite Wolfe word  4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one...

Craig and James talk about Gene Wolfe's Christmas ghost story "How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen." Published in: * Spirits of Christmas: Twenty Other-Worldly Tales (1989) * Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , (December 1989) * Innocents Aboard: New Fantasy Stories (2004) * Season of Wonder (2012)   David G Hartwell Christmas books: * Christmas Ghosts (1987) * Spirits of Christmas (1989) * C...

Listener comments end at: 15:45 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 17 parts 1 & 2, "The Tale of the Student and His Son" Severian reads to Jonas from the "The Book of the Wonders of Urth and Sky:" "The Redoubt of the Magicians" and "The Fleshing of the Hero."   Links: * Facebook   - Chapter 18 Mirrors   - Chapter 16 Jonas (part 2) -  Chapter 16, Jonas (part 1) * Reddit - Chapter 18 Mirrors - Chap...

Listener comments end at: 27:45 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 18, "Mirrors" Severian wakes up as Thecla. Hethor's critter is hunting them, so Sev wakes up Jonas and they go to Inire's mirrors.    Links:      - The Yarn of the Nancy Bell      - Stephen Frug on Jonas * Facebook   - Chapter 16 Jonas (part 2) -  Chapter 16, Jonas (part 1) * Reddit - Chapter 16 (part 2) - Chapter 16 (part 1) - Th...

Listener comments end at: 51:05 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 16, "Jonas" The chapter continues with Severian gets treats from the concession cart.  Jonas discusses his past in his broken confused way. He talks about Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass."   Links:      - Tea-based time travel clue in the Atrium of Time      - Teilhard de Chardin and THEORY of OMEGA POINT      - Matt Pu...

The (first) Brian Evenson Interview  Brian Evenson is an academic and acclaimed, award-winning author of novels and stories spanning every conceivable genre. Naturally he is also a Wolfe fan.  Links: * Blending Fantasy and Sci-Fi in Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer at Tor.com * brianevenson.com * bibliography * "The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell" * Interview at Los Angeles Review of Books  "...

Listener comments end at: 1:05:00 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 16, "Jonas" Innocents of the Antechamber are whipped and terrorized by Great Wizard of Oz knock-offs, and robot-man Jonas can't decide on the definition of sanity. (The first of two episodes on this chapter.)   Links: * Sierra Reynolds on Kim Il Sung and Kimleesoong * Stephen Frug on Heliocentric metaphors and hunting leopards *...

Listener comments end at: 45:15 The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 15, "The Fool's Fire" Severian meets the inhabitants of the Antechamber (not that he learns it is called that) and Jonas starts his mental breakdown.  Links: * Jordon Flato and the Claw * Chris Ott: A dweller in forgotten yesterdays   * Mark Mandarano and Sev thinks about his death in the Flower of Dissolution chapter * Gary Owens...

C Derick Varn Interviews Craig and James Derick interviewed us about Gene Wolfe, his works, and his legacy.  Links: * The Varn Vlog: Voice Podcast   * Varn Vlog Video on YouTube   * Varn Vlog Patreon Site - You can become a patron and hear additional episodes at https://www.patreon.com/rereadingwolfe - You can also get episodes on your podcast app or on our Youtube channel . If you have problems a...

The Ada Palmer Interview Ada Palmer wrote the introductions to the latest edition of "Shadow & Claw" from Tor, "The Path of the New Sun" as well as to the upcoming "Sword & Citadel." And now she talks to us. Yay! She is a professor of History at the University of Chicago and a scholar of the Renaissance. Her novel "Too Like the Lightning" was a Hugo Award nominee in 2017, and that year she won the...