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Welcome to Circles In Space!

Every Friday I publish Five Bullets on what’s capturing my attention, including books, creativity, history, music and more.

All posts are free but subscribers get a zine with creative inspiration & writing prompts!

Check out the Five Bullets archive here.

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What is Circles In Space?

Have you ever heard a song but only connected with it years later?

Or found a book has new meaning at different stages of your life?

The reason is rediscovering ideas engages our creative spirit.

That’s Circles In Space.

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Books:

• 10 Ways To Love Reading.

• 10 Favorite Books of 2025.

• How Shackleton Crossed The Drake Passage

• The Search for Shackleton’s ship.

• High-Rise: Surrealist Dystopia.

• Childhood’s End: The Stars Are Not For Man.

• Roadside Picnic: If We Know Aliens Exist But We Don’t Change, Are We Intelligent?

• Exploring Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.

• The Haunting.

Circles In Space:

• Circles In Space Zine

• Mission Statement: The Ideas Behind Circles In Space

• AI Policy

• Notes Worksheet For Focused Creativity

• 50 Favorite Things From Last Year 2025

• 2025: Year In Review

• June 2025 Updates

• Zine 001 - Coming Soon

• September 2024 Updates

• June 2024 Updates

Creativity:

• 35 Questions: The Proust Questionnaire

• 25 Quotes I saved in my commonplace book in 2025

• Walking & Wandering: (How To) Be A Tourist In My Own City

• 8 Ways To Stay Objective For Creatives

• The Bad Plus Drummer’s Lessons On Jazz and Creativity

• Are Running & Drumming Related?

• Tchad Blake’s Lessons on Creativity

• On Songwriting & Creativity.

Field Recordings:

• Field Recording 002: Makaya McCraven, New York

• Field Recording 001: Maria Hernandez Park, Brooklyn

Music:

• My 10 Favorite Albums in 2025

• 10 Gift Ideas For Drummers

• Why I Still Use An iPod

• CDs In My Car

• Velvet Sundown: Real Band or Spotify AI?

• Nils Frahm Brings Neo-Classical to Brooklyn

• What’s Louis Cole Listening To?

• Lett Us Resonate

• Chris Dave at Blue Note

• Notes With Attachments

• How To Make a DIY Percussion Shaker

• Making Music on the Longest Day of the Year

New York City:

• On New York City’s Future

• I Was in 7th grade on 9/11

• Fort Tilden: A Short History

• Edgar Allen Poe in New York City

• Barren Island: New York City’s Forgotten Island

• New Yorkers: Share Your Story!

Writing:

• Why Write?

• Notes From a Writing Workshop

• How To Take Book Notes: Three steps to turn your book notes into writing

• 5 Tips For Keeping A Daily Journal: Kickstart your journaling practice with these daily writing tips.

• C.S. Lewis’s Advice to a Young Writer

• Paul Auster’s Tips On How To Be A Writer

• Walter Isaacson’s Writing Tips

• On Writing a Newsletter

• Tim Ferris’s Tips for Engaging Interviews

More:

• What’s In My Backpack

• Sunshine: Reflecting on the 2007 space thriller.

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About:

Circles In Space is written by me, Keith Walpole. By day, I’m a litigation paralegal. In my free time, I interview New Yorkers and play drums in various music projects. I live in Brooklyn, N.Y.

I started blogging back in 2020, then moved to Substack in 2022. Since then I’ve published Five Bullets just about every Friday. I hope you join Circles In Space!

Best,

Keith