Michelle Goldberg is a journalist and the author of the New York Times best seller Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award and the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize. A senior contributing writer at The Nation, she has also written pieces for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Newsweek, The New Republic, Glamour, and many other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.
“Elegant and richly drawn. . . . With a jeweler’s eye for detail,
Goldberg presents a singular woman.” —The New York Times Book
Review
“Groundbreaking. . . . [Goldberg’s] clear prose illuminates the
forces of war and social change and reveals the complex roots of
our country’s yoga boom.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Fascinating. . . . [Devi’s] story and influence live on in this
can’t-miss memoir.” —Yoga Journal
“It’s hard to believe that the life of Indra Devi . . . hasn’t been
made into a blockbuster film. . . . Without idolizing or condemning
her, Goldberg evokes Devi’s complicated nature as deftly as she
does the Russian Empire, Weimar Berlin, occupied Shanghai, and so
many of the other places where Devi worked, loved, and
proselytized.” —New York Magazine
"Goldberg’s book is lots of fun. . . . Even if you don’t care
enough about yoga to hold a pigeon pose for the length of time it
takes to say [the] title, Indra Devi . . . remains no less a
fascinating character." —Los Angeles Times
"Engaging. . . offers fresh insights into commonly held
assumptions, including the relatively new origins of many physical
asanas. . . . Goldberg’s own discovery of yoga and Indra Devi
forms a riveting prologue to an expansive book that underlines
how truly global yoga has become after it was taken from Indian
shores more than a century ago." —The Times of India
"A celebration of female freedom and everything it can bring: an
appetite for adventure, fearlessness in the face of challenge, and,
most important, discovery and assertion of self."
—Anna Holmes, founding editor, Jezebel
"The story of how Devi came to embrace yoga and spread its gospel
in America is as fascinating as it is unlikely. . . . [Goldberg’s]
goal in writing The Goddess Pose seems to have been not
just chronicling the life of one of the world’s great iconoclasts,
but also providing a history for how hatha yoga went from an Indian
spiritual tradition to an everyday part of western lives. She
succeeds admirably on both counts." —The Guardian
"Michelle Goldberg’s masterful engagement with her astonishing
subject—and with the diverse political, spiritual, and physical
worlds she inhabited—is evident on every page." —Rebecca
Traister, author of Big Girls Don’t Cry
"Goldberg’s account of Devi takes the reader through three
chronicled, influential centuries of the yogi, actress, and
fearless voyager’s life which will leave you with a better
understanding of how westernized Yoga differs from its roots . . .
and a major dose of inspiration to get you on the way to your
next blissed-out savasana." —Nylon
"[The Goddess Pose] captures Devi’s Forrest Gump–like propensity to
live parallel to some of the most important moments of the previous
century." —New York Post
"[Goldberg] expertly assembles the puzzle pieces of Devi’s life,
pausing to provide context for the growing influence of
spiritualism on modern American life." —The Globe and Mail
(Toronto)
"Whether you’re a student of yoga, a history buff, an armchair
adventurer, or just a reader in search of an unputdownable story
that happens to be true, you’ll love this fascinating biography of
one of the twentieth century’s boldest, most influential
women." —Katha Pollitt, author of Learning to Drive: And
Other Life Stories
"Goldberg brings Indra Devi, a complicated and incredible woman, to
life in Technicolor brilliance. . . . I’ll never think of yoga the
same way again—and neither will you." —Susannah Cahalan, New
York Times best-selling author of Brain on Fire
"Terrific. . . . An irresistible story of yoga’s unlikely and, yes,
even audacious origins." —BookPage
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