Authors Die Twice – Details, episodes & analysis

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Authors Die Twice

Nathan Wainstein and Bryan Counter

Leisure

Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 40

A podcast on video games and aesthetic theory hosted by two Living Failures.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - Video Games
08/09/2026
#78
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Video Games
07/08/2026
#73
🇨🇦 Canada - Video Games
19/07/2026
#89
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Video Games
19/07/2026
#65
🇨🇦 Canada - Video Games
18/07/2026
#52
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Video Games
13/04/2026
#98
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Video Games
28/07/2025
#85
🇨🇦 Canada - Video Games
25/07/2025
#48
🇨🇦 Canada - Video Games
21/04/2025
#71
🇨🇦 Canada - Video Games
20/04/2025
#42

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https://www.eurogamer.net/games-of-the-decade-the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim-is-anything-but-overrated
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https://www.flatsinglespress.com/shop/p/terminal-1-arrivals
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https://strangematters.coop/indie-games-renaissance-is-over-what-comes-next/
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reel-rap/id1792646198
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vacated-landscape-by-jean-lahougue-with-bryan-counter/id1792646198?i=1000774623175
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https://www.instagram.com/luke.a.barnhart
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I Dream of Stinger (Formless)

Episode 34

Monday, August 31, 2026 • Duration 49:50

Bryan and Nathan are back once again with a Formless One. They discuss the Devil May Cry franchise, Michael Clune's White Out: A Secret Life of Heroin, and Sean Thor Conroe's recently published The Walk Book.

Find us on YouTube at youtube.com/@authorsdietwice

Have questions or comments? Email us at authorsdietwice@gmail.com

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Tropical Melancholy (with Shane)

Episode 36

Monday, August 17, 2026 • Duration 01:10:02

This week Bryan and Nathan return to Dark Souls 3, joined once again by friend of the pod, writer, and co-host of Reel Rap, Shane. They talk about what makes Dark Souls 3 stand out, for better and worse, including playerly progression, moments of silence, and the tropical melancholy of the final area.

Shane's writing: https://www.splittoothmedia.com/author/spfender/

Reel Rap: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reel-rap/id1792646198

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Professional Crate Digger (Formless)

Episode 35

Monday, July 20, 2026 • Duration 51:28

Bryan and Nathan are back with another Formless One. They discuss the Diablo franchise and a handful of books: Vacated Landscape by Jean Lahougue; Train Lord by Oliver Mol; The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson; Living on After Failure by Irving Goh; and The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson.

Bryan's appearance on Reel Rap to discuss Vacated Landscape: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vacated-landscape-by-jean-lahougue-with-bryan-counter/id1792646198?i=1000774623175

Tristram Village theme from Diablo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnMR6SOBa9k&list=RDAnMR6SOBa9k&start_radio=1

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The System Remembers

Episode 34

Monday, July 6, 2026 • Duration 49:15

In this episode, Bryan and Nathan discuss FromSoftware’s 2016 game Dark Souls III. They talk about the game’s traversability, fan service, repetition, memory, and its relationship to the other games in the trilogy.

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The Painted World of Cy Twombly (with Luke Barnhart)

Episode 33

Monday, June 22, 2026 • Duration 01:17:16

In this episode, Bryan and Nathan are joined by special guest Luke Barnhart to discuss the work of American painter Cy Twombly.

Luke's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/luke.a.barnhart/

Fifty Days at Iliam: https://www.philamuseum.org/objects/85709

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Endless, Formless

Episode 32

Monday, June 8, 2026 • Duration 01:07:53

After a break, the podcast is back with another Formless One. Bryan and Nathan discuss the YouTube channel Eleftherios, the 2016 remake of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (originally released in 2007), Fallout 4 (2015) and the series more generally, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard.

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A Dose of Ambient Sociality (with James Martell and Erik Larsen)

Episode 31

Monday, March 23, 2026 • Duration 01:22:53

In this episode, Bryan and Nathan are joined by special guests James Martell and Erik Larsen to discuss Dead by Daylight. They discuss experiences with multiplayer games, ideas about horror and Lovecraftian tropes, and the ephemerality of that first time.

James Martell is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Lyon College, and was a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge in 2025. He is the author of Beckett and Derrida (2024) and Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal (2019), and the editor of Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism (2025). His current projects are Thinking Surfaces in French Contemporary Thought and Foiled Reflections: Mirror Stages for Stupid Times in Literature, Art, Film, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy.

Erik Larsen is an associate professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Rochester. His research and teaching focus on biopolitics, critical theory and medicine, and the many intersections of narrative and healthcare. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Notre Dame.

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The Puppet Question

Episode 30

Monday, March 9, 2026 • Duration 44:23

Bryan and Nathan talk about the 2023 action role-playing game Lies of P. They think through some impressions (or lack of impressions) of it, wonder about the intertwined roles of the clown and the puppet in the game and in horror more broadly, and briefly touch on Heinrich Von Kleist’s 1810 story “On the Marionette Theater” to consider the relationship between the automaton and the human.

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Anti-Indiepus (with Martin Dolan)

Season 29

Monday, February 23, 2026 • Duration 51:07

Bryan and Nathan are joined by games writer Martin Dolan to discuss indie games.

Read Martin's essay "Indie Squeeze": https://strangematters.coop/indie-games-renaissance-is-over-what-comes-next/

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Pretty Inscrutable and Fairly Bizarre

Episode 28

Monday, February 9, 2026 • Duration 41:45

In this episode, Nathan and Bryan return to Ebisugaoka to talk more about Silent Hill f. They discuss the abstract nature of horror, Hinako’s two worlds, and the worst room in the game.

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