Memoirist Claire Dederer Tells All About Telling All

by Sean NelsonClaire Dederer will appear for a reading at Third Place Books in July. Stanton Stephens
Claire Dederer's first memoir was called Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses. It was well reviewed, and popular enough to land on the New York Times best-seller list in late 2010 and early 2011. It was also a more complex self-inquiry than its digestible, zeitgeisty package would have you believe. And yet, that very package made it the kind of book that you might carry cover-side-down if y