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1 month ago | 
billboard.com | Paul Grein |Claire Oshetsky |Sophie Amoss |Vaishnavi J. Patel
Barbra Streisand’s My Name Is Barbra won audiobook of the year at the 2025 Audie Awards, which were presented on Tuesday (March 4) at Pier Sixty in New York. Streisand’s audiobook won a second award, autobiography/memoir. Karen Dziekonskiof Penguin Random House Audio accepted on Streisand’s behalf. “Every recording session with Barbra was an absolute open door into her process,” Dziekonski said. “It showed what a steadfast and committed artist that she is.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
bookriot.com | Claire Oshetsky |Sophie Amoss |Rufi Thorpe |Charles DICKENS
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The finalists for the 30th annual Audie Awards, sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association, have been announced. The awards honor the best of the best when it comes to audiobooks.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
billboard.com | Paul Grein |Claire Oshetsky |Sophie Amoss |Vaishnavi J. Patel
Barbra Streisand’s My Name Is Barbra is in the running for audiobook of the year at the 2025 Audie Awards. Winners across 28 competitive categories will be revealed on March 4 in New York. The Audie Awards will be hosted by actress, comedian and author Amy Sedaris, who was a 2008 Audies finalist. Streisand’s audiobook is also nominated in the autobiography/memoir category, where it is squaring off against a work by another certified music legend, Elton John.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
kwit.org | Kelsey Patterson |Claire Oshetsky
This is Kelsey Patterson with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. Today, I’m recommending Poor Deer, the latest novel from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire Oshetsky. I’ve long been stewing over (and constantly editing) a recommendation that could be a worthy review of this hauntingly original title. This Check It Out is literally months in the making.
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Jan 14, 2024 | 
texarkanagazette.com | Claire Oshetsky |Ellen Akins
Poor Deer, By Claire Oshetsky; Ecco (240 pp. $26.99)"Poor dear," Margaret's mother says about their neighbor, whose little girl, Agnes, has gone to a "better place." But what 4-year-old Margaret hears is "Poor Deer." And so the title creature of Claire Oshetsky's novel enters Margaret's life. And stays. Twelve years on, when Margaret, hunkered down at Little Ida's Motor Lodge, is telling us this story, Poor Deer is hovering at her shoulder, acting as a sort of copy editor of conscience.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
lmtonline.com | Claire Oshetsky |Ellen Akins
By Claire Oshetsky Ecco. 240 pp. $26.99 - - - "Poor dear," Margaret's mother says about their neighbor, whose little girl, Agnes, has gone to a "better place." But what 4-year-old Margaret hears is "Poor Deer." And so the title creature of Claire Oshetsky's novel enters Margaret's life. And stays. Twelve years on, when Margaret, hunkered down at Little Ida's Motor Lodge, is telling us this story, Poor Deer is hovering at her shoulder, acting as a sort of copy editor of conscience.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Claire Oshetsky |Susan Mallery |Barbara Kingsolver
A book begging to be read on the beach, with the sun warming the sand and salt in the air: pure escapism. Three woman who join together to rent a large space along the beach in Los Angeles for their stores—a gift shop, a bakery, and a bookstore—become fast friends as they each experience the highs, and lows, of love. Bree is a friendly but standoffish bookstore owner who keeps everyone she knows at arm’s length, from guys she meets in bars to her friends.
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Jan 6, 2024 | 
entertainment-mag.com | Claire Oshetsky
POOR DEER, by Claire OshetskyMidway through Claire Oshetsky’s beautiful, terrifying sophomore novel, a mother asks her daughter: “Did you leave Agnes Bickford in that cooler to die, Bunny?”This turns out to be the centralquestion of “Poor Deer.”Bunny is Margaret Murphy, our protagonist; Agnes Bickford is her childhood best friend and neighbor. On a rainy day when the girls were 4 years old, they raced out of their respective houses to play.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Claire Oshetsky |Alexis Burling
“Poor Deer” by Claire Oshetsky. Photo: EccoWe all carry our guilt around with us — sometimes long after it deserves to be let go. Maybe it’s because of a decision we made that impacted a loved one in a negative way. Or maybe it was something we said or did that we wished we could take back. Even the tiniest sliver of guilt can grow and fester until it becomes so gargantuan that it turns into a monster.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
bookweb.org | Amy Burns |Claire Oshetsky |Kate Brody |Matthew Blake
Nov 29 2023 The January 2024 Indie Next List Preview Printer-friendly versionHere are the 25 Indie Next List and 6 Now in Paperback picks on the January 2024 Indie Next List flier. The January title list is also viewable as a collection on Edelweiss and on the Indie Next List page as an Excel file alongside PDFs for the month’s flier and shelf-talker templates.
