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Monsters Among Us with Claire Dederer
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Location: Gartner Auditorium
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Free; Ticket Required
Speaker
- Claire Dederer
Claire Dederer is a memoirist, essayist, and critic. Her most recent book is the national bestseller Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (Knopf, 2023), a New York Times Notable Book that was named a best book of 2023 by The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Elle, Esquire, Oprah Daily, and many other outlets. Her previous books are the critically acclaimed Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning (Knopf, 2017) and Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses (FSG, 2010), which was a New York Times bestseller. Dederer is a longtime contributor to The New York Times. Her essays, criticism, and reviews have also appeared in The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, New York Magazine, and many other publications. She began her career as the chief film critic for Seattle Weekly. She is the recipient of a Hedgebrook residency and a Lannan Foundation residency. Dederer lives in Seattle.
About The Event
“Monsters Among Us with Claire Dederer” is a wide-ranging discussion of this central question: What do we do with great art made by bad people? Pulling from her best-selling book Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, Claire Dederer explores the problem of separating the art from the artist.
Dederer’s lecture walks audiences through several additional questions: Is monstrosity a key ingredient in the making of great art? Are all monsters men, or do audiences have to balance greatness and terrible behavior when appreciating art by female artists? And what happens when we put ourselves in the middle of the conversation and acknowledge our own failures?
A book signing with Dederer immediately follows the lecture, with limited copies of Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma available on-site. Guests are encouraged to preorder a copy through the CMA store below.
This lecture is made possible with support from Case Western Reserve University’s Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities.
Book Preorder
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
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