Comments for Marcy Dermansky http://marcydermansky.com Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:50:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 Comment on My Top Ten Movies of the Year by Emdashes http://marcydermansky.com/2006/12/27/my-top-ten-movies-of-the-year/#comment-7 Emdashes Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:27:52 +0000 http://marcydermansky.com/2006/12/27/my-top-ten-movies-of-the-year/#comment-7 <strong>These Are a Few of My Favorite Things...</strong> The novel I love above all others The Queen’s Gambit [Walter Tevis] Enthusiasts par excellence PRINT magazine [where I work] James Wolcott Chiasmus Love Shine [the best store in Williamsburg] Greatest Films [Tim Dirks] The Corduroy Appreciation C... These Are a Few of My Favorite Things…

The novel I love above all others The Queen’s Gambit [Walter Tevis] Enthusiasts par excellence PRINT magazine [where I work] James Wolcott Chiasmus Love Shine [the best store in Williamsburg] Greatest Films [Tim Dirks] The Corduroy Appreciation C…

]]> Comment on New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick by jürgen fauth’s muckworld » The Motel http://marcydermansky.com/2005/12/11/new-york-times-editors-choice-pick/#comment-2 jürgen fauth’s muckworld » The Motel Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:09:50 +0000 http://marcydermansky.com/2005/12/11/new-york-times-editors-choice-pick/#comment-2 [...] 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? [...] […] 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? […]

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