Claire Dederer's Avatar

Claire Dederer

@clairedederer

Author of MONSTERS: A FAN'S DILEMMA, a New York Times Notable Book and a national bestseller. Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Fresh Air, The Washington Post, Esquire, Kirkus, Vulture, Electric Lit & more.

1,995
Followers
383
Following
101
Posts
01.09.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Claire Dederer @clairedederer

“Guy Debord Vindicated Again” is not a sentence you ever want to be typing and yet I feel like I’m doing it maybe two dozen times a week at this point

04.03.2026 22:55 👍 212 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 0

Well, heck! Thank you!

03.03.2026 02:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

02.03.2026 18:12 👍 794 🔁 557 💬 7 📌 9

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

26.02.2026 12:31 👍 5928 🔁 2294 💬 2 📌 24
Flow chart showing that the U.S. spends $445 billion on mass incarceration every year.

Flow chart showing that the U.S. spends $445 billion on mass incarceration every year.

🚨NEW: Mass incarceration costs the U.S. an alarming $445 billion every year. Where exactly does it all go?

Follow the money with our new report 🧵
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/mone...

11.02.2026 18:39 👍 24 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 0

someday everything is gonna be different

19.02.2026 01:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is so beautiful

19.02.2026 01:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

his singing on it seems especially metallic and brilliant

16.02.2026 18:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this is great!

16.02.2026 18:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love a lot of em but sorry, Desolation Row, basic bitch ovah heavy

Specifically bc of how the last stanza drops all the elegiac Calypso mermaids hocus pocus in favor of "I hate you for writing a letter to me describing the things you're up to; how dare you ask about my well being"

14.02.2026 22:07 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

easy choice but maybe ballad of a thin man. the more i listen to it the more its sneering hippie effacement seems to turn into sincere epistemological terror. spent a lot of the last few years in a state of “there is something happening but you don’t know what it is”

15.02.2026 18:10 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0

I love this loop you make here from Dylan back to Woody Guthrie

15.02.2026 19:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Truly underrated song, Scarlet Rivera's violin is so beautiful on it. I've finally given in and accepted that Desire is one of my top Dylan albums

15.02.2026 19:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

this is super interesting ... sneering hippie effacement --> sincere epistemological terror describes so much of Dylan's trajectory, or a back-and-forth in his work

15.02.2026 19:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When I was growing up my album had a scratch on Simple Twist of Fate so I have weird relationship to that song!

14.02.2026 23:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ha, I never thought of it as dropping the hocus pocus but you're right, the flat-footedness of the last stanza really does make the whole song

14.02.2026 22:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You're a delight

14.02.2026 21:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Elite pick

14.02.2026 21:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is a deeply eccentric and yet very solid choice

14.02.2026 21:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Incredible song, one of two absolute all-timers on that album

14.02.2026 21:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

any song with rainbow trout in it is a good one!

14.02.2026 20:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Here is a place to say your favorite Bob Dylan song.

14.02.2026 20:39 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 9 📌 6

very underrated year

13.02.2026 19:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Been waiting for this! So excited to read

05.02.2026 16:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m so sorry. Grateful for the fantastic work of you and your colleagues.

04.02.2026 16:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Belle and Sebastian - This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
Belle and Sebastian - This Is Just A Modern Rock Song YouTube video by BelleSebastianVEVO

This Is Just A Modern Rock Song by Belle & Sebastian: “We’re four boys in our corduroys, we’re not terrific, but we’re competent”

youtu.be/HT0grH_H-_M?...

04.02.2026 06:12 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you so much for reading and for your kind post!

31.01.2026 00:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ha, you can have as many as you want!

20.01.2026 01:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

embarrassed to say I have not! Is there good and/or bad flashbackery in there?

20.01.2026 00:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Dear writers

You probably need to cut that flashback

19.01.2026 21:05 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 7 📌 1