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Claire Oshetsky

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"Listen! I will be honest with you, I do not offer the old smooth prizes..."
- Walt Whitman


I review books here on goodreads as my fashion-conscious bibliophilic alter ego, "Lark Benobi." Come follow or friend me on my lark benobi page. if you like. I visit this page so infrequently that I won't be accepting friend requests here.

Now and then I'll be leaving reviews on goodreads as "Claire Oshetsky" but only for those books that have influenced me as a writer.

People keep asking me whether the child in the novel Chouette is meant to represent an autistic child, or a trans child, or an autistic trans child, or some other kind of child. The book is fiction. The child in the novel is an owl.

Other people ask me what "Poor Deer," the titul
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Average rating: 3.93 · 8,102 ratings · 1,868 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
Chouette

3.89 avg rating — 5,056 ratings — published 2021 — 17 editions
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Poor Deer

3.99 avg rating — 3,045 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions
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Interstate by Stephen Dixon
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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
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The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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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
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Manywhere by Morgan    Thomas
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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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Kind One by Laird Hunt
Kind One
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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:

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More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon
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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
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You Have Me to Love by Jaap Robben
You Have Me to Love
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I just wrote a book about a child who is forced to confront death's reality when she is far too young to understand it. As I wrote I studied the works of other writers who have told this story.

My favorite treatment remains John Gardner's short story,
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Interstate by Stephen Dixon
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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
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The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes
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My next novel is coming out Jan 2024 and it's beyond way-too-late in my life to acknowledge the tremendous impact The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes has had on me, so much so that it might be considered the Ur-text of Poor Deer, to be published in Jan ...more
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“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.”
Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

“Housekeeping is nothing more than a losing encounter with entropy”
Claire Oshetsky, 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.”
Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

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