Episode 015: The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke

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