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Claire Dederer

Dec

22

2017

Tom Nissley on Local Authors

KING 5 Showcases Phinney Books’ PNW Picks

I spotted this KING 5 segment through Seattle Review of Books. It highlights favorite titles by Pacific Northwest authors: You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me Love and Trouble My Rice Bowl Ghosts of Seattle Past Where’s Halmoni? Get Dressed Sasquatch/ Goodnight Krampus Queen of Spades Razor Clams.

Jun

8

2017

Love Water Memory

Love Water Memory by Jennie Shortridge

This is such a beautiful story that had me hooked from page 1. Lucie comes to standing knee deep in the waters of San Francisco with no idea who she is or how she got there. When her picture is put out to the media, her fiance in Seattle sees the photo and races to …

Dec

16

2011

28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List: Day 16. Claire Dederer

Claire Dederer’s witty memoir, the national bestseller Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, would make an excellent gift for the astute new Mom in your life. It comes out in paperback January 3. We interviewed Dederer about it here. She lives on Bainbridge Island, where her favorite bookstore is Eagle Harbor Book Co.: “Not …

May

4

2011

Why We Love Poser and Why Claire Dederer is So Not a Dork

Claire Dederer’s memoir, Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses, is like yoga for strugglers or yoga for the non-bendy and non-serene, for people who think too much and consistently wonder—at yoga and in civilian life—”Was that a stupid thing I just did or said?” That is, it’s not really about yoga. It’s a memoir about …

Jan

20

2011

Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses by Claire Dederer

“Poser is an intelligent and funny memoir-slash-exploration-of-yoga. It sounds lighthearted, and it can be, but Dederer illuminates hard questions with honesty and grace, and transformed the way I look at my on-again, off-again yoga practice. Poser is inspiring in the best possible way.”—Jill, Powells.com Dederer lives on Bainbridge Island in Washington and will read Wednesday, …

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