27 | Janna Levin on Black Holes, Chaos, and the Narrative of Science
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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How to Write a Book Like a Novel
I really think I was trying to write that book like a novel. The target was Ray is a character. Ray has lines. Ray says stuff, and it's Ray's dialogue. It could literally have opened and read as Ray was a fictitious character with lines. And that came from Ray, that idea. Because his speech is so spectacular. But you get caught up in the characters and you decide for yourself. You don't put pictures on. So can it be conjured up solely with the words? Yeah.
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