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We caught up with Özgür Uyanık, whose debut short story collection Men Alone was published last month, to ask him some questions...     Hi Öz, and thanks for making the time to talk to us. What inspired you to write Men Alone? Following my father’s death in 2019, I began to think more deeply about his life. One aspect that fascinated me was the hard barrier between his external self and his secretive internal one and so I wanted to explore this way of being. Therefore, each story is about men—at different stages of life—trying to master their existence...