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Claire’s 2023 Year in Books
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Claire Oshetsky
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Menominee, Michigan, USA
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Vladimir Sorokin, Clifford D. Simak, Theodore Sturgeon, Ariana Harwicz
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December 2020
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Chouette
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2021
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15 editions
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Poor Deer
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2024
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7 editions
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Anna, you said it. For me the best thing about writing Chouette has been discovering I'm not alone. This particular experience of motherhood can feel
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victoria wrote: "do you have a favorite Cheever collection?"
I do have The World of Apples but nothing is as good as the big red "The Stories of John C ...more " |
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added a status update: I made a new author foto for the paperback publication of Poor Deer. I wore a purple shirt and purple spectacles so it would blend with the bold purple-and-orange Poor Deer cover. I've changed the profile pic here on Goodreads to be this latest foto, too. Now I'm wondering why authors don't always make new author fotos to match their book jackets when a new book comes out. Seems like something I would do, anyway.
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added a status update: The novel I'm working on at the moment has turned out, in part, to be a meditation on some of my favorite John Cheever stories. What an extraordinary writer. It constantly amazes me that he is thought of these days, if he is remembered at all, as someone who wrote about the vagaries of upper middle class suburban alcoholics and bad marriages. His stories are so varied, and so surreal, and so perfect.
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I re-read this novel in preparation for writing a scene in my novel Poor Deer, one that involves a car, plus some intense emotions. I don't know a lot of writers personally but the ones I do know seem to write very differently from the way I write. T ...more |
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A reader left a review of Chouette recently that quoted this passage from Chouette: ‘I stay up a while, alone in the kitchen, drinking my twig tea and watching the spiders weave their webs. At times like these, the old voices resurrect themselves, and ...more |
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| Recently I returned to Morgan Thomas's collection Manywhere to rediscover how Thomas presents nonbinary and alternative genders in these stories, because most of my working time, right now, is focused on a novel I'm calling a "trans picaresque." And ...more | |
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The second of two writing projects I'm working on just now is a small dark book of psychological terror, like, scarier than what I think I'm able to write but maybe not. Here are some books that are inspiring me: Kind One The Laws of the Skies Fever Drea ...more |
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| Writers aren't supposed to answer the question "what are you working on next?" because answering that question supposedly will tank the current project by messing with the writer's head by making them commit too soon but oh well. The fact is I'm work ...more | |
“I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible.”
― Chouette
― Chouette
“I begin to understand what a gift I've been given, to have been chosen for this task. The truth overwhelms me, and humbles me. The birds are telling me that my life's work, as your mother, will be to teach you how to be yourself- and to honor however much of the wild world you have in you, owl-baby- rather than mold you to be what I want you to be, or what your father wants you to be.”
― Chouette
― Chouette
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