Resolutions and Inspiration
Marcy shared her New Year’s resolution with the L.A. Times’ Jacket Copy and talked to the 30th Avenue blog about babysitter jokes, inspiration, and her favorite Astoria cafes.
View ArticleBad 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,...
View ArticleFiction 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...
View Article“Waiting for Big Bird” in Forgotten Borough
Marcy has a brand-new story set in Astoria, Queens in the anthology Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens, edited by Nicole Steinberg, along with work by Arthur Nersesian, Ron Hogan,...
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleRave 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...
View Article“Waiting for Big Bird” at Fictionaut
You can now read Marcy’s new short story “Waiting for Big Bird,” from the anthology Forgotten Borough, on Fictionaut.
View ArticleBad 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...
View ArticleMarcy 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...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street Fiction at Salon
Marcy’s short story “Whole Foods Was Around the Corner,” inspired by the Occupy Wall Street Movement, is now online at Salon.com. Marcy is also one of the signatories of occupywriters.org.
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