Claire Dederer

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Claire Dederer (born 1967) is an American writer. Her book Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses,[1][2] was a New York Times best seller.[3][failed verification]

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.[4] She has taught writing at her alma mater ('93), the University of Washington[5] and lives with her family on Bainbridge Island.

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[]

  • Love and trouble : a midlife reckoning. 2017.

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.[11] 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. ^ Hardcover Nonfiction, The New York Times, February 6, 2011.
  4. ^ "Seattle Weekly news". Seattle Weekly. Archived from the original on 2014-10-25. Retrieved 2014-10-16.
  5. ^ "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.
  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. ^ Jump up to: a b Dederer, Claire (2017). Love and Trouble. New York: Alfred Knopf.
  11. ^ Online version is titled "Fire Sermon is a profoundly strange meditation on desire".

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