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Episode 058: Andrew Fischer of Earthborne Games

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 serialized on Royal Road! Check out Briar Bay, a Mork Borg/OSR setting zine live right now on Kickstarter! If you’d like to recommend a story or game 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

1h 39m
FEB 4

Episode 055: Three Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

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 Royal Road! Check out Briar Bay, a Mork Borg/OSR setting zine live right now on Kickstarter! 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

1h 7m
JAN 14

Episode 054: Ulysses by James Joyce

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 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man * ULYSSES * Cormac and James 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

1h 27m
12/31/2025

Episode 053: The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - Chapter One

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 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

1h 29m
12/17/2025

Episode 052: Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

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 possibly not for the reasons you think. 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

1h 1m
12/03/2025

Episode 051: Anti-capitalism vs. The Man of Flowers

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 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

1h 16m
11/19/2025

Episode 050: In Bludd by Jeffrey Ford

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, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, and Big Dark Hole. Ford’s fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies, such as Tor.com, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, McSweeney’s, and The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, and has been widely translated. It has garnered World Fantasy, Edgar Allan Poe, Shirley Jackson, and Nebula Awards and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 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

1h 4m
11/12/2025

Episode 049: Conan: The Board Game and RPG with Matthew John

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 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

1h 20m

Reviewing old things. radicaledward.substack.com

Creator

radicaledward
Years Active

2024 - 2026
Episodes

56
Rating

Explicit
Copyright

© edward rathke
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