Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses  by Claire Dederer
Literary critic Claire Dederer has let her career persona invade
her life. She is judgmental of everything and is especially hard
on herself. Writers have a joke about being too poor to afford
therapy (although Dederer sees an on-again/off-again therapist),
so they just write about their problems and that fixes
everything. Or not. In Dederer’s case, she has written a
personal treatise about her critical habits and explores why her
childhood, unique parents, career and tastes in music have made
her the unapologetic perfectionist she is today. And since every
good memoir des