After two difficult years, the Seattle native had dropped out of Oberlin College, a private liberal arts school in a tiny Ohio town 2,400 miles from home. Since her days as a Seattle Weekly film critic in the late 1990s, Dederer has honed a frank and funny point of view.ĭederer realized her calling in a short-story class led by UW professor David Wagoner in the late 1980s. In “Love and Trouble: A Reckoning,” she frankly details her experiences with men and boys, including a childhood assault and fumbling mutual encounters when she was, perhaps, too young. She also published a midlife memoir about love, libido, intimacy and identity last spring. “But of everything I’ve written in my whole life, it is the thing that has been most read, responded to and shared by men.”Ī New York Times best-selling feminist writer, Dederer is on a roll. “I really wrote it for myself,” Dederer says now, surprised with its continuing popularity. Knowing about the awful thing affected her enjoyment of the great work, whether it was “Annie Hall,” “Chinatown” or “The Cosby Show.” She also writes about the “general feeling of not-quite-rightness” she and women across the country have been experiencing even before the Harvey Weinstein accusations were made public. “They did or said something awful, and made something great,” she writes of these “genius” creators. Dederer was also interviewed about it on National Public Radio. It went viral, was shared around the world on Facebook and reposted on dozens of sites. The piece came out as the nation grappled with a wave of stories about sexual misconduct.
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