Wolf Podcast

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 y...

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 Theodo...

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 inte...

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...

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast. Today, I’m talking with Johan Nohr ! He’s the artistic vision behind Mork Borg , a doommetal TTRPG that has spawned an enormous community. He’s done quite a lot of art and design for other games as well, but today we’re talking about his short story The Goblin , which is available for free on his itch page, with a physical version available here . We...

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast. Today, Kyle Muntz and I are discussing the short story Noah’s Raven by Kij Johnson ! She’s an the author of dozens of short stories and novels, and the winner of Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy Awards, along with the Theodore A Sturgeon Award, among others. Her most recent books are the short story collection The Privilege of the Happy Ending and her nov...

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast. Today, we’re doing something entirely different. Rather than discuss stories or books, my good friend Bart Larsen and I are beginning our journey through the albums of the Beatles. We’ll be taking an album by album approach to highlight how the most influential band of the 20th Century developed and became what they became. We start here with their f...

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 Kaz...

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 W...

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...

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 F...

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 touc...

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 shou...

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 top...

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 availabl...

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 ....

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...

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast. Today Paul Graham Raven is on the show to discuss William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s collaboration on 1990s The Difference Engine. Paul is a writer, academic, and worldbuilder. You can find more of his writing at his website , newsletter , and Read his interview with Bruce Sterling right here . Turning the clocks back to the early 90s, right before...

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast. Today Kelby Losack and J David Osborne are back! This episode is a collaboration with their Agitator podcast . It’s also condensed down just to the conversation about Agency. If you want to hear the full almost two hour conversation, which gets into AI, Mike Tyson v Jake Paul, and the Trump election, head on over to patreon.com/agitator . Today, we’r...

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast. Today Kelby Losack is back! He’s a writer, voice actor, carpenter, cover artist (he does all the covers for my Howl series), and cohost of the Agitator podcast with J David Osborne . He’s the author of the hillbilly cyberpunk masterpiece Mercy . Find more of him at his website . You can now get the rest of his books on Amazon again . Today, we’re ont...

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 podcas t, or on substack at Experience. Computer . Check out his recent appearance on the Ecogradia podcast ! It’s great. Today, we’re onto Zero History, the conclusion to the Blue Ant trilogy, which feels like t...

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 podcas t, or on substack at Experience. Computer . Check out his recent appearance on the Ecogradia podcast ! It’s great. Today, we’re onto Spook Country, which reminded me more of Gibson’s previous novels. And s...

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 podcas t, or on substack at Experience. Computer . Today, we’re onto Pattern Recognition, the first novel in the Blue Ant Trilogy. We talk about the internet, Gibson’s career more broadly, and a host of other thi...

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast. Today I’m talking with Kelby Losack , writer, voice actor, carpenter, cover artist (he does all the covers for my Howl series), and cohost of the Agitator podcast with J David Osborne . He’s the author of the hillbilly cyberpunk masterpiece Mercy . Find more of him at his website . Today, we’re onto All Tomorrow’s Parties, book three in William Gibso...

Welcome to the new episode of the Wolf Podcast. Today I’m talking with Kelby Losack , writer, voice actor, carpenter, cover artist (he does all the covers for my Howl series), and cohost of the Agitator podcast with J David Osborne . He’s the author of the hillbilly cyberpunk masterpiece Mercy . Find more of him at his website . Today, we’re onto Idoru, book two in William Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy....