Posts by Marcy
Rave Review in Booklist
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 named Benoît Doniel, over and over. Her handsome young Mexican lover and inept accomplice hung himself in jail, and her mother won’t even pick her up, so upon her release, Marie heads for her old friend Ellen’s swanky New York apartment. Smug Ellen knows how dangerous Marie is, yet she desperately needs a nanny for her precocious toddler daughter, ...
Read MoreTaking My Baby To The Movies
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,” she said with enormous enthusiasm — or something very much like it. We were watching Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus at the Landmark Sunshine Theater in Manhattan, a Wednesday matinee in their weekly Rattle and Reel screening series for parents and babies. I looked around nervously, afraid...
Read MoreTWINS: Interview Season
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 at Bildungsroman.
Read MoreIMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist
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 in April.
Read MoreLitpark Interview
Susan Henderson and Marcy trade secrets from high school–and share old pictures–in their discussion of Twins on the literary website litpark.
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