Author: Claire Dederer

Claire Dederer’s “Monsters” a passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of #MeToo, and of the link between genius and monstrosity.

Dederer explores the audience’s relationship with artists from Woody Allen to Michael Jackson, asking: How do we balance our undeniable sense of moral outrage with our equally undeniable love of the work?  In a more troubling vein, she wonders if an artist needs to be a monster in order to create something great. 

Highly topical and honest to the core, “Monsters” is certain to incite a conversation about whether and how we can separate artists from their art.