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Method and Madness

Method and Madness
Method and Madness
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  • Method and Madness

    The Garden, The Race | 7/2026 Tarot Reading

    03/07/2026
    A tarot reading on trusting your gut, savoring the solace, and willing yourself to find the edge. Contact me via your favorite social media or bradwkellyATgmail with TAROT in the subject to set up a personal reading for a reasonable fee.
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    Melee - Scott Laudati on RAINBOW ROAD

    29/06/2026
    Scott Laudati is a renaissance man. A musician, painter, filmmaker, and a true poet. We talk about being on local television, his ceaseless travels across this beautiful country, throwing away the phone, and his powerful new collection of poetry RAINBOW ROAD.
    Buy Rainbow Road
    Scott’s great travel videos on youtube.
    Scott on twitter.
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    Ep. 18.1 - TREE OF SMOKE by Denis Johnson w/Kevin Kautzman

    22/06/2026
    Good Morning and please listen to me: TREE OF SMOKE is a Great American Novel, about war, espionage, fathers, sacrifice, depravity, and much more. The book’s central metaphor stands everywhere and nowhere, like a dark wraith unfolding itself across the modern psyche.

    The great Kevin Kautzman, from Art of Darkness, joined me in the tunnels beneath this remarkable book.
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    MELEE - Kenan Meral on STIGMA OF THE LIVING FLESH

    15/06/2026
    Author Kenan Meral joined me to talk about books within books, the terror of sublimity, the reality of deepfakery, and his excellent new novel STIGMA OF THE LIVING FLESH.
    Follow Kenan on twitter
    Buy STIGMA OF THE LIVING FLESH from New Ritual Press
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    Ep. 17.2 - The MADNESS of William H. Gass' THE TUNNEL [free version]

    11/06/2026
    In this FREE version of the MADNESS episode, I get into hobby tunneling, Gass via Gaston Bachelard, the linguistic and mythic dimension of matter, and what it means that THE TUNNEL is a novel of the Earth.
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About Method and Madness
A podcast hosted by writer Brad Kelly (formerly of Art of Darkness). Main book episodes feature 2 parts: a fun, in-depth conversation with one of my most insightful friends, and a sprawling exploration of the book's many rabbit-holes (usually behind the paywall). Melee episodes are general conversations with authors and others about books, writing, and culture.
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