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: A Midlife Reckoning, Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses,[1][2] and Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma.

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]

Dederer currently teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Pacific University.[11]

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.[12][13][14]

Essays

• "What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?". The Paris Review. November 20, 2017. (Winner of Longform essay of the year)[15]

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.[16]	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. Dederer, Claire (2017). Love and Trouble. New York: Alfred Knopf.
11. "Claire Dederer". Pacific University Oregon.
12. Jacobs, Alexandra (2023-04-23). "Face to Face With Culture's 'Monsters'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
13. Febos, Melissa (2023-05-24). "Can You Love the Art and Hate the Monster?". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2023-06-23.
14. 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.
15. "Arts · Best of 2017 · Longform". Longform. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
16. Online version is titled "Fire Sermon is a profoundly strange meditation on desire".

External links

• The Official Website of Claire Dederer
• Can You Love the Art of a Person You Loathe? KQED, Apr 25, 2023