NPR CHOSE DEBORAH'S STORY
Deborah's fiction submission called Allechka was selected along with five others from a pile of 5,000 entrants.
BLISS BEND, A NOVEL
Ever drive through one of those large amorphous Midwestern states and get stuck poking along through endless small towns as you try to get someplace else? You see their single stoplight, their dinky restaurant and the lone Dairy Whip on the edge of town, and wonder “who in the heck lives here anyway?” Noleen Raynor and her friend Berta Lembrecht work at Charlie’s Lunch in Bliss Bend, Ohio. They constantly wonder at how they both came to be daughters of men whom everybody loves to hate, and just hope that they don’t turn into one of the “potatoes” in town. They are the hard-luck Bliss Benders. Then there’s the Kolkemeyers, lucky, rich and on top of the town.
Welcome to life in Bliss Bend.
SHORT STORIES
"Flint," THE LONDON MAGAZINE, October/November 2007
"I Repair Cars," THE MACGUFFIN, Summer 2004
"Ruthie's Diary," THE LONDON MAGAZINE, April 2003
"One Dog's Life," AMERICAN WRITING, March 2002
"Hairdo to Hell," US #1 Worksheets, July 28, 1999
"The Guilty One," First Place Winner, TCNJ Writers' Conference, 1998
TONI MORRISON'S ATELIER
Read about the fantastic program at Princeton University, founded by Noble Prize Winner and Princeton Professor Toni Morrison.
The Atelier was designed to encourage experimentation, a way to bring creative people from various genres, and entice them to come up with something totally new. This article features interviews with Professor Morrison, Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, Jacques D'Amboise, director of the National Dance Institute and a former principal dancer with the NYC Ballet, YoYo Ma, the cellist, Richard Danielpour, the conductor, and Peter Sellars, an avant-garde director of theater and opera.
"Toni Morrison's Atelier" first appeared in the Princeton Alumni Weekly, and can be found in the volume called The Best of PAW: 100 Years of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, edited by J.I. Merritt
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ INTERVIEW & MORE
Princeton Living, edited by David Major, was an eclectic monthly magazine of the Trenton Times. While it existed, Deborah Kaple wrote many pieces for this magazine. Most of them were features pieces.
For Princeton Living, she once interviewed Gabriel Garcia Marquez when he visited Princeton, she spoke with Jim McGreevey before he was the Governor of New Jersey, she discussed dealing with the homeless with Connie Mercer, the building of a new charter school in Trenton, the work of the League of Women Voters, a day in the life of the Princeton Nursery School. She was also pleased to interview Edith Zuckerman of Edith's Lingerie fame, and learn the details of a fantastic career beginning in Hungary. She also talked with a waitress who owned and lived with an African Gray who could whistle like a car alarm, not to mention the lovely woman who collected magnets (whose husband installed magnetic panels all over the house for this collection.
DREAM OF A RED FACTORY
This concise book sheds startling new light on the origins of post-1949 labour relations in China, and indeed on the broader relationship of Maoism to Stalinism. Kaple, a Princeton-educated sociologist trained to conduct research in both Russian and Chinese, scoured written sources from both countries form 1946 to 1953 for evidence about the adaptation of Soviet methods to Chinese conditions. Her findings force us to revise thoroughly our understanding of the relationship between Soviet and Chinese models of factory organization. Kaple shows quite stunningly that what we have so often understood as a distinctive Chinese model in fact is almost a direct translation of "high Stalinist" Soviet ideals of the immediate post-war period that have so far escaped scholarly attention. -- The China Quarterly, by Andrew G. Walder, March 1995.
"SOVIET ADVISORS IN CHINA IN THE 1950s"
This book chapter was written after spending a year in Moscow reading files in the newly-opened Communist Party Archives. In frustration at how little could find out on the Soviet Advisors Program of the 1950s, Stalin's effort that sent thousands of Soviets to China, she placed an ad in a Moscow daily newspaper, asking to talk to people who had worked there. This is the resulting piece, which appeared in Odd Arne Westad's edited volume, Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963 (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1998).
CITIZEN BOSS: A GULAG MEMOIR
Citizen Boss is a compelling memoir from a man who worked in the Gulag system in the 1940s. It is an insider's look at one of Stalin's most notorious prison labor camps, a railroad building camp above the Arctic Circle. It is fully annotated for the general reader, has accessible sources for outside reading, maps of the Soviet Union, including the Gulag sites, and several original photographs from this notorious camp known as Pechorlag.
