Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb

I’vebeen writing ever since I was a boy. Creative writing was my favorite subjectin school, and the feedback from my teachers encouraged me. I wanted to followin my father’s footsteps—he was a journalist at the local newspaper—but I wasalways drawn to writing fiction. 

Myfirst book was a collection of short stories set in Israel, where I had movedwith my family at the age of 15. The stories were based on my experiencesliving on a kibbutz, a collective farming community in Israel’s southerndesert. Life on the kibbutz was evolving, from socialist idealism to moderncapitalism, and I strived to show these changes in my fiction. 

Iwrote two suspense novels set in Bulgaria, but I’ve gravitated to the craft ofwriting short stories. I enjoy the format of introducing characters and plotsin a limited number of words. In many ways, this is more challenging thanwriting a novel.

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