Claire Dederer

Claire Dederer, 2024

Claire Dederer (born 1967[citation needed]) is an American writer who regularly contributes essays, reviews and criticism to publications including The New York Times. She has written three books, Love and Trouble, Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses,[1][2] and Monsters.

Life and career

Dederer was raised in Seattle, where she was born in 1967. She was a film critic at the Seattle Weekly before turning to freelance journalism.[3] She has taught writing at her alma mater ('93), the University of Washington.[4] She has two adult children with her ex-husband. She lives on a boat in Seattle.[5]

Dederer has written book reviews and articles for The New York Times[6][7] and other publications.[8][9] Her memoir, Love and Trouble - a midlife reckoning, was published in 2017.[10]

Her brother, Dave Dederer, is a guitarist and singer, best known as a member of the band The Presidents of the United States of America.[10]

Bibliography

Books

  • Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2010. ISBN 9780374236441.
  • Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning. Alfred A. Knopf. 2017. ISBN 9781101946503.
  • Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma. Hodder & Stoughton. 2023. ISBN 9781399715034.[11][12][13]

Essays

Book reviews

Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
2018 "The virtue of illicit desire". The Culture File. Books. The Atlantic. 321 (2): 42–44. Mar 2018.[15] Quatro, Jamie (2018). Fire sermon. Grove.

References

  1. ^ "A Cynical Position Overcome With Yoga", Janet Maslin, The New York Times, December 22, 2010.
  2. ^ "Chasing Virtue", Dani Shapiro, The New York Times, December 24, 2010.
  3. ^ "Seattle Weekly news". Seattle Weekly. Archived from the original on 2014-10-25. Retrieved 2014-10-16.
  4. ^ "A Newsletter of the Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington" (PDF). University of Washington. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-16.
  5. ^ "BIO". CLAIRE DEDERER. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  6. ^ "Specimens of Suburbia", Claire Dederer, The New York Times, December 28, 2003.
  7. ^ "Fiction: The War at Home", Claire Dederer, The New York Times, November 7, 2004.
  8. ^ Claire Dederer's articles on Slate.com, accessed September 9, 2014.
  9. ^ Claire Dederer at The Atlantic, accessed September 9, 2014.
  10. ^ a b Dederer, Claire (2017). Love and Trouble. New York: Alfred Knopf.
  11. ^ Jacobs, Alexandra (2023-04-23). "Face to Face With Culture's 'Monsters'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  12. ^ Febos, Melissa (2023-05-24). "Can You Love the Art and Hate the Monster?". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  13. ^ Cooke, Rachel (2023-05-07). "Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer review – what's your cancellation policy?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  14. ^ "Arts · Best of 2017 · Longform". Longform. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  15. ^ Online version is titled "Fire Sermon is a profoundly strange meditation on desire".
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