First Draft - Omer Friedlander
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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How Do You Write About Israel?
I wanted in these stories to get sort of beneath the official story, and are the more hidden stories of individuals. And I thought of myself as a kind of sympathetic listener to their stories. The power of a good story is that it does not protect us, but instead exposes us and brings us into closer contact with our own life. With this collection I did want to sort of zoom in and tell a more intimate story of the people who live there.
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