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Claire’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Claire’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Claire Oshetsky
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Born
Menominee, Michigan, USA
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Vladimir Sorokin, Kenzaburō Ōe, Flannery O’Connor, Shirley Jackson, Do
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Member Since
December 2020
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Poor Deer
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2024
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10 editions
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Chouette
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2021
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17 editions
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Evil Genius
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2026
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6 editions
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Thanks for letting me know, Richard!
I had an incredible time last year in Rochester at the Kafka Prize events, and I got to meet Chad Post at that time, along with all the other members of the prize committee. I saw my first-ever woodchuck, too...ho See Full Answer |
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I’s so happy to know I’m not the only one!
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Thank you both! This is useful. Chouette feels “surreal” in that it’s a world where a a woman gives birth to an owl. Evil Genius feels like the normal
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Here is another puzzler for me. People keep calling Evil Genius “surreal” when I think it’s about normal life. What are they talking about? |
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jac I think the way you identify with the “weird girl” identity is exactly the way I want my books to be read.
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I wanted to write a little something here about how The Five-Forty-Eight by John Cheever influenced the way I wrote Evil Genius. First, here is a link to the story: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19... The rest is going behind a spoiler tag, as it’s ...more |
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You got it, Jill! That makes me so happy.
I wonder how many writers drop little easter eggs into their stories that barely anyone will notice, or mayb ...more " |
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| What an extraordinary read. I almost never read biographies but this one was so special. I admit it, I’m deeply jealous of the life this genius, lesbian, intellectual, shaped-like-a-bowlingball powerhouse of a writer led. I'm jealous of the people sh ...more | |
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| Lately I've been yearning to read the works of writers who exhibit sincerity, faith in progress, intellectual seriousness, and the absolute belief that intensely beautiful language can convey important truths that more vernacular registers can't reac ...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
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| LOTSA SPELL CHALL...: August 2021 Word of the Month - LOCKDOWN | 43 | 21 | Sep 20, 2021 11:27AM | |
| Retro Chapter Chi...: Summer Challenge 2021 | 161 | 29 | Sep 24, 2021 06:16AM | |
| LOTSA SPELL CHALL...: August 2021 LSC MEMBER SPELL | 151 | 17 | Nov 14, 2021 02:50PM | |
| Read Women: 2021 Authors and Main Characters over 50 | 59 | 136 | Dec 04, 2021 09:31AM | |
| 21st Century Lite...: One Book That Surprised You, One That Disappointed You, & One That Deserves More Attention From Your 2021 Reading Year? (11/21/21) | 13 | 62 | Dec 08, 2021 12:29PM |