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'''Claire Dederer''' (born 1967) is an American writer who regularly contributes essays, reviews and criticism to publications including ''[[The New York Times]]''. She has also authored two books, ''Love and Trouble'' and ''Poser'': ''My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses.''<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/books/23book.html "A Cynical Position Overcome With Yoga"], Janet Maslin, ''The New York Times'', December 22, 2010.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/books/review/Shapiro-t.html "Chasing Virtue"], Dani Shapiro, ''The New York Times'', December 24, 2010.</ref> ''Poser'' was a [[The New York Times Best Seller List|''New York Times'' best seller]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2011-02-06/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html Hardcover Nonfiction], ''The New York Times'', February 6, 2011.</ref>{{failed verification|date=May 2020}}
'''Claire Dederer''' (born 1967) is an American writer who regularly contributes essays, reviews and criticism to publications including ''[[The New York Times]]''. She has also authored two books, ''Love and Trouble'' and ''Poser'': ''My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses.''<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/books/23book.html "A Cynical Position Overcome With Yoga"], Janet Maslin, ''The New York Times'', December 22, 2010.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/books/review/Shapiro-t.html "Chasing Virtue"], Dani Shapiro, ''The New York Times'', December 24, 2010.</ref>


==Life and career==
==Life and career==

Revision as of 20:52, 8 May 2023

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

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 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 for 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.

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.[12] 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. ^ "Arts · Best of 2017 · Longform". Longform. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  12. ^ Online version is titled "Fire Sermon is a profoundly strange meditation on desire".