August 7th, 2011
Bad Marie is part of HarperPerennial’s “20 books for $20” sale — for the month of August, you can pick up the eBook version in all the popular formats (Kindle, Nook, iBooks, and Google ebooks) for only 99 cents! At the same time, the print version is available from Amazon for $5.60. You can also get . . . → Read More: Bad Marie eBook Sale
August 7th, 2011
You can now read Marcy’s new short story “Waiting for Big Bird,” from the anthology Forgotten Borough, . . . → Read More: “Waiting for Big Bird” at Fictionaut
August 6th, 2011
“Marcy Dermansky’s work recalls that of Alain Robbe-Grillet, pioneer of the French nouveau roman, as well as that of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, with a soupçon of the films of Jean-Luc Godard thrown in,” writes Shelley Salamensky, reviewing Bad Marie for the Los Angeles Review . . . → Read More: Rave Review From Los Angeles Review of Books
June 21st, 2010
“The words ‘There are croutons’ have never seemed so sad,” says Fifty-Two Stories editor Cal Morgan of Marcy’s “sinuous long story, with echoes of both The Great Gatsby and The Graduate.”
“Adults at Home,” which originally appeared in Indiana Review and in Love Stories: A Literary Companion to Tennis, is on Fifty-Two . . . → Read More: “Adults at Home” on Fifty-Two Stories
June 21st, 2010
This morning, Marcy was a guest on GalleyCat’s Morning Media Menu, discussing French movies, writing, and motherhood. . . . → Read More: Marcy on Morning Media Menu
June 20th, 2010
Look for Bad Marie in the June 24, 2010 edition of . . . → Read More: Bad Marie in Time Magazine
June 20th, 2010
Marcy will discuss motherhood, writing, and the road to the publication of Bad Marie on Media Bistro’s eBOOKNEWSER on Monday, June 21, 2010 . . . → Read More: eBOOKNEWSER Interview
June 9th, 2010
Lisa Shea reviews BAD MARIE in the July, 2010 issue of Elle Magazine: “Dermansky does proud the long, often sketchy, sometimes illustrious tradition of transgressive fiction with BAD MARIE . . . Her Marie is no cry-baby Anna Karenina fated to a star-crossed love for which she pays . . . → Read More: Bad Marie Reviewed In Elle Magazine
June 7th, 2010
Marcy’s writes about reading Tender is the Night at the Englewood Pool for Los Angeles Times‘ Jacket Copy (this also appeared in the print edition of . . . → Read More: Marcy talks F. Scott Fitzgerald at Jacket Copy
May 20th, 2010
Bad Marie has been selected for the Barnes and Noble Fall 2010 Discover Great New Writers program. Look for it on the B&N featured in store displays from August – . . . → Read More: B&N Discover Great New Writers
May 10th, 2010
Dermansky follows her bold debut, TWINS (2005), with a wickedly nihilistic and suspenseful tale of erotic mayhem. Impulsive, larcenous, and utterly self-absorbed, not to mention vampishly beautiful, Marie rather liked prison, where she could read her favorite book, a novel by a French author . . . → Read More: Rave Review in Booklist
March 22nd, 2010
Marcy’s article about taking her daughter Nina to a “Mommy and Me” screening at the Landmark Sunshine Theater was published in Film in Focus. Here’s how it begins:
My daughter Nina, seven months old, sitting on my lap, started talking excitedly to the big screen in front of her.
“Doy doy doy doy doo doo,” . . . → Read More: Taking My Baby To The Movies
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"Badass." — Esquire, Best New Books of 2010
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