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Comment on Bad Marie in the 2011 Tournament of Books by Tweets that mention Bad Marie in the 2011 Tournament of Books « Marcy Dermansky -- Topsy.com

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:48:32 +0000

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Blogs The Third « Marcy Dermansky — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:13:20 +0000

[...] The Third September 21st, 2010 After two previous installments, here is the latest praise for Bad Marie from around the web: “Oddly and completely [...]

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Blogs The Third « Marcy Dermansky — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:02:17 +0000

[...] The Third September 21st, 2010 After two previous installments, here is the latest praise for Bad Marie from around the web: “Oddly and [...]

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HTMLGIANT — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:44:52 +0000

[...] you all read Bad Marie by Marcy Demansky yet? It’s amazing and you should go get this book immediately so you can let it kick you in [...]

Comment on Bad Marie by On Book Reviews and “Literary” and “Popular” Fiction : Lawyers, Guns & Money

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:02:40 +0000

[...] Is the Times book review unduly focused on male writers from Brooklyn? Possibly! It would require a much more systematic analysis than I’m willing to do. I can say that coincidentally four of the five works of fiction I’ve read most recently — Marcy Dermansky’s very well-turned noir Bad Marie, Anne Lamont’s Imperfect Birds, Lorrie Moore’s typically exceptional A Gate at the Stairs, and Alice Munro’s Selected Stories — happen to have been written by women. All but the first*, for what it’s worth, received positive notices in the Times. Munro is another good example of the fact that major work can appeal to a broad audience, and the first two blur lines betwen “literary” and “genre” fiction, but I if I had to guess I don’t think the attention paid by the Times to female “literary” novelists is especially low. Scanning my shelves for other recent favorites, I would also say that other important authors such as Enright, Gaitskill, Zadie Smith have also gotten a reasonable level of engagement. Whether it’s high enough is a matter of judgment, but at a minimum I don’t see the kind of easy prima facie case you would have against, say, the Washington Post op-ed page. [*Dermansky, generously responding to my inquiry, notes that Bad Marie was discussed in this Times article and did receive a variety of other prominent notices.] [...]

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Fictionaut Five: Marcy Dermansky - Fictionaut Blog — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:10:38 +0000

[...] Dermansky is the author of Bad Marie (just released) and Twins (2005). Her short stories have been published in numerous literary [...]

Comment on New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick by j�rgen fauth’s muckworld » The Motel

j�rgen fauth’s muckworld » The Motel — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:09:50 +0000

[...] In my experience, pitching anything as “coming of age” story is instant death. Somehow, it reeks of overly familiar stuff that everybody is supposed to have moved past long ago. Bildungsroman has a slightly better ring to it, especially if you can hyphenate it somehow, but the idea is the same: teenagers learning about responsibility and identity and love and sex and death–ugh, right? Well, no. As Frederick Barthelme once told me, semi-cryptically: “It’s a rug.” Categorizing something doesn’t fully describe it yet, and it certainly doesn’t imply a value judgment. Most stories owe a huge debt to the major arcana and Joseph Campbell’s monomyth, but that doesn’t make them bad rugs, dig? [...]