Claire Dederer

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Claire Dederer
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Claire Dederer, 2024
Born1967 (age 57–58)
Seattle, Washington,Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Citizenship American
Alma mater University of Washington
Occupation(s)Writer, essayist, critic
EmployerPacific University
Known forEssays, book reviews, memoirs
Notable workPoser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Children2
RelativesDave Dederer (brother)
AwardsLongform essay of the year (2017)
Website clairedederer.com

Claire Dederer (born 1967 [1] ) is an American writer who regularly contributes essays, reviews and criticism to publications including The New York Times .

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She has written three books: Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning, Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, [2] [3] 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. [4] She has taught writing at her alma mater ('93), the University of Washington. [5] She has two adult children with her ex-husband. She lives on a boat in Seattle. [6]

Dederer has written book reviews and articles for The New York Times [7] [8] and other publications. [9] [10] Her memoir, Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning, was published in 2017. [11]

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. [11]

Dederer currently teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Pacific University. [12]

Bibliography

Books

Essays

Book reviews

YearReview articleWork(s) reviewed
2018 "The virtue of illicit desire". The Culture File. Books. The Atlantic. 321 (2): 42–44. Mar 2018. [17] Quatro, Jamie (2018). Fire sermon. Grove.

References

  1. ↑ Dederer, Claire (2017). Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning. Westminster: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN   978-1-101-94650-3.
  2. ↑ "A Cynical Position Overcome With Yoga", Janet Maslin, The New York Times, December 22, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Chasing Virtue", Dani Shapiro, The New York Times, December 24, 2010.
  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. ↑ "BIO". CLAIRE DEDERER. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  7. ↑ "Specimens of Suburbia", Claire Dederer, The New York Times, December 28, 2003.
  8. ↑ "Fiction: The War at Home", Claire Dederer, The New York Times, November 7, 2004.
  9. ↑ Claire Dederer's articles on Slate.com, accessed September 9, 2014.
  10. ↑ Claire Dederer at The Atlantic, accessed September 9, 2014.
  11. 1 2 Dederer, Claire (2017). Love and Trouble. New York: Alfred Knopf.
  12. ↑ "Claire Dederer". Pacific University Oregon.
  13. ↑ Jacobs, Alexandra (2023-04-23). "Face to Face With Culture's 'Monsters'". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  14. ↑ Febos, Melissa (2023-05-24). "Can You Love the Art and Hate the Monster?". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved 2023-06-23.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ "Arts · Best of 2017 · Longform". Longform . Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  17. ↑ Online version is titled "Fire Sermon is a profoundly strange meditation on desire".
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