Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the Webby-nominated podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

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Check them out at Himalaya.com or in the app store. I'm here today with Claire Deuterer,

the author of two critically acclaimed memoirs, Love and Trouble of Midlife Reckoning and Poser,

my life in 23 Yoga Poses,

which was a New York Times bestseller and has been optioned for TV and adapted for the stage.

I also reviewed this book a long time ago in The Observer Playground Magazine, which I used to write for.

She has contributed to the New York Times, the Paris Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, Mary Claire, Elle, Real Simple, and many other publications.

She's a fourth generation, Seattle, native, and currently lives on an island in Puget Sound with her husband and children.

Welcome, Claire. Thanks for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Folks. I'm so excited to be interviewing you.

I've told you this before, but I read your memoir, Poser in

23 yoga poses when it first came out, and I just absolutely loved it and haven't forgotten

it all this time. I always think about it. So I'm really delighted to be interviewing you about it.

Hooray. Thank you for reading. It's funny. I can barely, it's, that book is, I think, 10 years old now. And so it's sort of, I had to, you know, I'm reaching back in the recesses of my memory. Well, we can still, we can, all what happens in it. I know you've written another book since, Love and Trouble, and we can talk about that. And I want to hear about the one you're working on now as well, but I can jump around a little bit. What was it that made you write your first memoir? What inspired you to write it?

Well, I didn't have any idea that I wanted to write a memoir at all. I had been a book critic

and a film critic and a journalist for maybe 10 or 15 years, and it would never have occurred to me to write a memoir.

But at the time, I was doing a lot of yoga and I was reviewing a lot of yoga books.

I happened to be writing a lot at that time for yoga journal.

And so I would review yoga books for them.

And honestly, they were just, you know, they were terrible.

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