Talk. Talk. Talk. Marcy reveals her true opinions about the Olsen Twins and George Clooney at Conversations With Famous Writers. She talks about living the writer’s life in an outer boroughs in The Queens Chronicle and shares secrets about crafting teen trauma . . . → Read More: TWINS: Interview Season
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Twins was selected for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist. Nominations for books of “high literary merit” are made by libraries in capital and major cities around the world; 138 novels were nominated. The shortlist will be announced . . . → Read More: IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist Susan Henderson and Marcy trade secrets from high school–and share old pictures–in their discussion of Twins on the literary . . . → Read More: Litpark Interview Marcy recently read a scene from Twins at the In The Flesh reading series. The juicy finale was caught . . . → Read More: Sue and Lisa Markman Take Celebrity Pills The New York Public Library has selected TWINS for inclusion in Books for the Teen . . . → Read More: Books for the Teen Age 2006 An in-depth interview that ranges from Marcy’s writing background, the cost of living in Hattiesburg, midget love tragedies, and the development . . . → Read More: Slushpile.net Interview Marcy Dermansky’s first novel, Twins, is a masterpiece for young or old adults. She gives us a sect of unidentical identical teenage twins, Chloe and Sue, so identical they can’t bear each other. One wants to live only for her twinship, the other wants to be part of the world at large. At least at first. . . . → Read More: Prairie Lights Books I am not an identical twin. Before writing TWINS, I had started another novel about a young woman in San Francisco and then I realized that the last thing I wanted to do was write a book about myself. Instead, I set out to amuse myself. I started with a new, outlandish voice (Sue) and then . . . → Read More: Backstory.com: Twins Writers love identical twins. What tidier way to show different sides of one character, explore possible life paths or test the limits of nature and nuture? Dermansky does all that, but her twins (who take turns at narrating) transcend the gimmick in a brainy, emotionally sophisticated bildungsroman-for-two. Chloe, the elder by four minutes, longs for a . . . → Read More: New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick “A poignant, compelling story, Dermansky’s debut successfully reconnects us with adolescent angst and leaves us wondering which is the evil twin.” Read . . . → Read More: Outsmart Magazine I couldn’t stop seeing TWINS: The Movie in my head while I was writing the actual novel. Chloe and Sue were real to me, the scenes coming in as if I was part of the audience, watching. I could see my identical twins at the tattoo parlor: skinny and pale, cold and nervous in their pink . . . → Read More: Large Hearted Boy: Book Notes “Compelling, dark and like a traffic accident that you try to look away from, only to find your gaze returning with odd . . . → Read More: Rocky Mountain News |
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