Wolf Podcast

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 serial...

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 R...

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 Portra...

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...

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 possib...

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 thi...

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, Th...

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...

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, 201...

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 . Fo...

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 civiliz...

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 albu...

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 ! I...

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...

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 specificall...

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...

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 w...

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...

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...

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...

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 ,...

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...

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....

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, th...

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! Subscr...