Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 21

Smothered Hope

On when a band you grew up with calls it quits after four decades.

The David And Tyler Art Show

Musings on a talk between painter David Salle and Tyler Cowen.

How Long?

What makes a story "too short" or "too long" is not something you can gauge from the outside, but has something to do with its inner life.

Aniara

A fascinating failure: a space epic that plays like the nihilistic cousin to "2001: a space odyssey".

Behind The Scenes With 'Shunga-Satori', Pt. 5: The Characters

An introduction to the roster of characters for my new novel "Unmortal", starting with the main characters.

Motives, Pure And Otherwise

What is it about writing a story that made you hell-bent on writing it, other than your urge to sign your name to it?

Oppenheimer

One would expect a Great Man Of History story, but Nolan's film is a repudiation of the idea.

Neck Deep In My Hoopla

Excuse my silence! I've been busy -- not NaNo, though, but it might as well be.

Word Crimes

Karl Popper stood out from other philosophers for me because he was avowedly not interested in arguments about the meanings of words.

You May Now Stop Reading

I don't always know when to stop doing research for a project, or how to deal with coming across valuable research after the project is already closed.