{"product_id":"monsters-by-claire-dederer","title":"Monsters by Claire Dederer","description":"\u003cp\u003eCan we love the work of artists such as Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Miles Davis, Polanski, or Picasso? Should we? Dederer explores the audience’s relationship with artists from Michael Jackson to Virginia Woolf, asking: How do we balance our undeniable sense of moral outrage with our equally undeniable love of the work? Is male monstrosity the same as female monstrosity? And if an artist is also a mother, does one identity inexorably, and fatally, interrupt the other? In a more troubling vein, she wonders if an artist needs to be a monster in order to create something great. Does genius deserve special dispensation? Does art have a mandate to depict the darker elements of the psyche? And what happens if the artist stares too long into the abyss? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighly topical, morally wise, honest to the core, \u003cem\u003eMonsters\u003c\/em\u003e is certain to incite a conversation about whether and how we can separate artists from their art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCLAIRE DEDERER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eLove and Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best-selling memoir \u003cem\u003ePoser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses\u003c\/em\u003e, which has been translated into twelve languages. A book critic, essayist, and reporter, Dederer is a longtime contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and has also written for \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic, Vogue, Slate, The Nation, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eNew York\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. She lives near Seattle with her family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51363624288565,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/monsters.jpg?v=1764700181","url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/products\/monsters-by-claire-dederer","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}