Method and Madness

In part 2 of our in-depth episode on William Gibson's NEUROMANCER, Aaron and Brad go METHOD talking about what makes this book tick, how to write something ‘timeless’, and living in alternate realities. SUBSCRIBE AT PATREON AND SUBSTACK for early immediate access to our entire NEUROMANCER conversation

We talk with the great Ewan Morrison about his new novel FOR EMMA, a cyber thriller par excellence, about the influence of Gibson, hyperstition, and the runaway processes of AI development that have writers on edge. PREORDER EWAN'S NEW BOOK: https://www.ewanmorrison.com/ and follow him at x.com/@mrewanmorrison.com and untopia.substack.com

We talk Aaron’s recent Tolkien “controversy,” where the Borges meets the road, the importance of plot, the looming and forgotten catastrophes of human history, Nathanael West, and what C.G. Jung thought about UFOs.

We discuss the mysterious mastery of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle,” go on a crash tour of the history of the memoir/autobiography, and examine the other book from which Knausgaard borrowed his title. Finally, the great Jarvis Best joins us to talk about just how powerful this book is in a world where so many of us find it much easier to hide. Follow Jarvis: x.com/jarvis_best

Lynch, Loneliness, and Larry

In our first episode of method and Madness, we leave a white and turbid wake: the focus is MOBY-DICK. In our Method segment, we discuss Melville’s techniques and how you can deploy them in your own writing. And then Brad goes Mad, finding astrological correspondences and falling through the yawning abyss of H.P. Lovecraft.