{"id":3755,"date":"2010-12-23T14:45:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T14:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2010\/12\/the-next-elizabeth-gilbert.html"},"modified":"2010-12-23T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T14:45:06","slug":"the-next-elizabeth-gilbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2010\/12\/the-next-elizabeth-gilbert.html","title":{"rendered":"The Next Elizabeth Gilbert?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"poser.jpg\"<\/span>I don’t care what you say about Elizabeth Gilbert. I loved “Eat, Pray, Love” and I don’t care who knows it. That’s why, when I read this recent New York Times book review of Claire Dederer’s “Poser”<\/a> (just out from FSG) and Janet Maslin not only likens Dederer’s style<\/a> and humor to Gilbert, but speculates that “Poser” may indeed be the next bestseller in the style of “Eat, Pray, Love,” I had to mention it here. And it’s the yoga version, too.
\nThe basic Gilbert-Dederer parallels, a la Maslin:
\n“Claire Dederer take[s] up yoga . . . because she lived in Seattle, “where rain was the sky’s lingua franca.” She felt bogged down at 31. She was married, had a young child and spent her time with other mothers, all of whom aspired to such oppressive virtue that the fear of child-rearing errors carried a whiff of existential gloom. . . She needed an escape. And yoga came with Seattle’s hip, holier-than-thou territory.”
\nSound familiar? More or less. Maslin writes that Dederer’s book is part memoir, part how-to yoga manual. The best part is that Dederer sounds funny in the way she observes her journey of self-transformation, however bumpy and partial. If she is anything like Gilbert, I’m there.
\nLast minute Christmas gift perhaps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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