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Marcy Dermansky

About Me



Praise for TWINS
The New York Times Book Review called TWINS "a brainy, emotionally sophisticated bildungsroman-for-two." The novel was selected as an editor's choice pick .

"Dermansky gives her misfits real dignity and avoids psycho-social clichés she neatly captures the girls suburban high school world with every telling detail. Sometimes despairing, sometimes blackly humorous, always engrossing and thoroughly original. A wonderful debut." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Twins is spectacular, weird, extraordinarily real, and funny in ways they dont have names for." -- Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight

"If you thought your childhood was twisted, you aint seen nothing yet. Marcy Dermansky weaves a spellbinding tale. Grade: A" -- Genre Magazine

"TWINS will bruise your heart and make you laugh out loud all at once." -- New York Newsday

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/11/2005
Band Website: marcydermansky.com
Influences: WRITERS: Haruki Murakami, Frederick Barthelme, Flannery O'Connor, Russell Banks, Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, T.C. Boyle, Truman Capote, Mary Gaitskill, Lorrie Moore, Mary Robison, Iris Murdoch, Sarah Waters, Alison Bechdel, Raymond Carver, Charles Bukowski, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Melanie Rae Thon, Joy Williams, Toni Morrison, David Sedaris, Alice Walker, Dave Eggers, Jhumpa Lahiri, J.D. Salinger, Sylvia Plath, Alice Munro, Amy Hempel, Banana Yoshimoto.MOVIES: Rushmore, The 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, My Summer of Love, Almost Famous, Morvern Callar, Ruby in Paradise, Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law, Before Sunset, Lost In Translation, The Dreamers, Breaking The Waves, Ghost World, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Run Lola Run, Manhattan, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Rebecca, My Life As A Dog, Look At Me, Head-On, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Splendor In the Grass, Lemming.MUSIC: Goldfrapp, Beth Orton, Gillian Welch, Tegan and Sara, Nick Drake, The Eels, Bonnie Raitt, Esthero, Martha Wainwright, Regina Spektor, The Eames Era, Massive Attack, Edie Brickell, Van Morisson, Keren Ann, Neko Case, Mazzy Star,The Shins, Edith Piaf, Aimee Mann, Air, Al Green, Amy Correreia, Ani DiFranco, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Catie Curtis, Cassandra Wilson, Chet Baker, Cowboy Junkies, David Byrne, Dinah Washington, Elvis Costello, Emiliana Torrini, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Kathleen Edwards, Langhorne Slim, Lucinda Williams, Michelle Shocked, Nina Simone, Prince, Rickie Lee Jones, Sue Jorge, Sigur Ros, Tom Waits, Tracy Chapman, The Velvet Underground.
Sounds Like:
Record Label: William Morrow & Company
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Submissions Wanted: The Mississippi Review Spring Movie Issue

I'm co-editing the Spring issue of the Mississippi Review Web. Here's the call for submissions. Please feel free to forward this to any and all interested parties, and to post wherever appropriate. 24...
Posted by Marcy Dermansky on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:54:00 PST

Quoted in the New York Times by Pagan Kennedy

Pagan Kennedy wrote a funny, smart essay about her experience with MySpace for the New York Times Book Review. She quoted me. I got an entire paragraph. More than a Times mention, what I loved was ge...
Posted by Marcy Dermansky on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:36:00 PST

Thanks, Tricia, Lap Pools, and "Talk To Me"

Trisha, who has an amazing book blog on MySpace - News and Reviews for Book Lovers - posted a lovely piece about Twins. It's a fascinating review, because it's about a lot more than my book. It's al...
Posted by Marcy Dermansky on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:27:00 PST

Ferham Reviews TWINS, Three Months Late

Three months after she finished reading Twins, book blogger Anne Ferham (member of the Lit Blog co-op) felt compelled to write a review. "A fun, hilarious, and touching read," she writes. And says oth...
Posted by Marcy Dermansky on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:31:00 PST

A Post About Movies: Away From Her, The Namesake, Grindhouse

Sarah Polley is one of my favorite actresses. She wrote and directed Away From Her, a remarkable adaptation of the Alice Munro short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain." My admiration for Polley ...
Posted by Marcy Dermansky on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:24:00 PST

Dermansky's vomit is in third

Tish Cohen, whose first novel TOWN HOUSE is coming out in May, had a fun little contest over on the Debutantes Ball. She had readers vote on her favorite books from 2006. TWINS was one of her f...
Posted by Marcy Dermansky on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:13:00 PST

The week where I read not one, but two Little Women spin offs

Maybe you are like me and you read Louisa May Alcott's Little Women a gazillion times in your youth. I read that book front to back and then, I would close my eyes and open it at random. I mean, I rea...
Posted by Marcy Dermansky on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:25:00 PST

Top Ten Movies of 2006

An obscure Sarah Polley film sneaked into my annual About.com top ten movies of the year, as did Pedro Almodovar's Volver and Guillermo del Toro's all-engrossing, adult fairytale Pan's Labryinth. And ...
Posted by Marcy Dermansky on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:39:00 PST

Interview Season - and the Writers Retreat in Tuscany we can't go to

Talk. Talk. Talk. I reveals her true opinions about the Olsen Twins and George Clooney at Conversations With Famous Writers, talks about living the writer's life in an outer boroughs in The Queens Ch...
Posted by Marcy Dermansky on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:26:00 PST

Twins makes IMPAC 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; ...
Posted by Marcy Dermansky on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:28:00 PST