Bad Marie
Marcy is one of Powell’s “Writers to Watch”
Powell’s Books, the beloved independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, features Marcy as one of its “Writers to Watch,” along with Joshua Mohr, Sam Lipsyte, and Karen Russell. You can save 30% off the cover price when you order Bad Marie from...
Read MoreBad Marie eBook Sale
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 this amazing deal from a number of great independent...
Read MoreRave Review From Los Angeles Review of Books
“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 of Books.
Read MoreOn the Lit Mat: The Magazine of Yoga Interviews Marcy
Corinna Barsan of The Magazine of Yoga interviewed Marcy for the “On the Lit Mat” column. Who or what was your greatest influence in picking up the pen? I wrote my first short story in elementary school. It was twenty handwritten pages about an African elephant in an American zoo who misses the other elephants. I have always wanted to be a writer. Read the...
Read MoreFiction Just Got Fun Again: More Bad Marie Reviews
Another round-up of recent reviews: “Fiction just got fun again. This is an international whirlwind of a story that should land in the annals of cult classics.” –Duluth News Tribune “Here is a book that is both literary and plot driven, humorous and heartbreaking… a book you will not want to miss.” –Myfanwy Collins “A very, very good novel that stars one of the most unforgettable, likable bad characters in American literature since Patrick Bateman.” — James Boice “Tantalizing… pleasurably dark.” –The Millions “Quite possibly the single most moving book I’ve read yet this...
Read MoreBad Marie in the 2011 Tournament of Books
Bad Marie was selected by The Morning News as one of the sixteen books competing in the 2011 Tournament of Books, along with Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, and Emma Donoghue’s Room. The seventh annual tournament begins on Monday, March 7. The Morning News has the complete list of contenders. Update: The results are in — judge Jennifer Weiner picked Emma Donoghue’s Room over Bad Marie. In the official commentary, John Warner says, “I couldn’t put Bad Marie down. It was the most fun I had reading all year.” Jen and the Pen provides an alternate...
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