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Marcy Dermansky

Marcy Dermansky is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Bad Marie and Twins. Her third novel The Red Car will be published by Liveright, Norton on October 11, 2016.

Bad Mariewas a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writer's Pick, a finalist in the Morning News Tournament of Books, and named one of the best novels of the year in Esquire. Her first novel Twins was a New York Times Editor's Choice Pick. Powell's Bookstore named Marcy a Writer to Watch Out For.

Marcy's short fiction has been widely published and anthologized, appearing in McSweeney's, Five Chapters, The Indiana Review, and elsewhere. Her essay "Maybe I Loved You" appeared in the best-selling anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York.

Marcy has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and The Edward Albee Foundation. She is the winner of the Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and Story Magazine Carson McCuller short story prize. Marcy received her Bachelor of Arts at Haverford College and her Master of Arts at the Center for Writers at the University of Southern, Mississippi. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey with her daughter Nina.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Twins (2005)
   Bad Marie (2010)
   The Red Car (2016)
   Very Nice (2019)
   Hurricane Girl (2022)
   Hot Air (2025)

Books containing stories by Marcy Dermansky

Goodbye to All That (2021)
Writers On Loving and Leaving New York
edited by
Sari Botton

Marcy Dermansky recommends

The Reservation (2026)
Rebecca Kauffman
"One thing I love about fiction is that it can take you anywhere. For instance, an entire novel can take off when a whole bunch of steak are stolen from a restaurant refrigerator. That this relatively small theft can change the trajectory of people's lives. With The Reservation, her sixth novel, Rebecca Kauffman has proven herself to be a master of documenting ordinary life - revealing how complicated, rich, puny, funny, beautiful, and absolutely bittersweet it can be."

Tehrangeles (2024)
Porochista Khakpour
"Porochista Khakpour has lowkey written a hilarious book about a truly terrible time. Tehrangeles takes us inside the surreal world of the wealthy and beautiful Milani sisters, coming of age in an extraordinary time and posting it all - the good, the bad, the ridiculous - on social media."

Welcome Home, Caroline Kline (2024)
Courtney Preiss
"Courtney Preiss' debut novel Welcome Home, Caroline Kline is lovely and engaging, funny and smart and sometimes sad. I rooted so hard for Caroline Kline, a young woman who makes a life for herself out in New York City, but somehow finds herself back in her childhood bedroom. This is a worst nightmare scenario to anyone who had grown up in New Jersey and also so very relatable. Her journey is a quiet triumph."

Since She's Been Gone (2024)
Sagit Schwartz
"It's been a long time since I fell so hard for a character as I did for Beatrice 'Beans' Bennett. I worried so much about the vulnerable teenage Beans, and then, the adult woman struggling with the same veritable demon, ED. The menacing voice of this eating disorder is as scary as the assassins at Bean's heels as she searches for her missing mother. Sagit Schwarz's debut novel Since She's Been Gone is a remarkable debut. Intense, engrossing, and enthralling."

How Can I Help You (2023)
Laura Sims
"Laura Sims's How Can I Help Youtakes you inside the seedy underworld of - brace yourself - the small town public library. Turns out, it's kind of shocking. Turns out, the kindly, cardigan-wearing librarians on the other side of the circulation desk have strong feelings about the bad behavior of library patrons -- and, even more shocking -- are not so well-behaved themselves. Sims's sharp, incisive second novel is an out-and-out page turner."

Hedge (2023)
Jane Delury
"Jane Delury has done the impossible: written a seemingly quiet novel about a woman trapped in a bad marriage that builds and builds and builds until suddenly you realize you're reading a page turner. I could not stop turning the pages. Hedge is a wonderful book."

Late Bloomers (2023)
Deepa Varadarajan
"Deepa Varadarajan's debut novel is funny, heartbreaking, engrossing, surprising, and smart. Late Bloomers tells the story of the Raman family, beginning after the children have grown up. I never knew what would happen next and I absolutely loved that about this beautiful book."

The Work Wife (2022)
Alison B Hart
"Alison B. Hart's debut novel, The Work Wife, takes us behind the scenes and into the carefully constructed lives of the Hollywood elite and their staff. It's not pretty. Feminist and furious and sometimes very funny, The Work Wife is bursting with love for these wounded characters."

Joan is Okay (2022)
Weike Wang
"Engrossing . . . Joan is fine; the problem is other people. I loved this book and didn't want it to end."

The Hive (2021)
Melissa Scholes Young
"I love when an author takes me someplace I’ve never been. Much like an epic Jane Smiley novel, Melissa Scholes Young transports us to rural America, inside a family-owned pest control business and four sisters’ struggle to keep it afloat in a changing political landscape. The Hive is a moving and completely immersive reading experience."

The Brittanys (2021)
Brittany Ackerman
"The Brittanys. Teenage girls who really have everything: youth, beauty, swimming pools, and private school. And so much pressure. I read Brittany Ackerman’s page-turning debut novel The Brittanys with my heart on my sleeve."

Santa Monica (2020)
Cassidy Lucas
"Oh, how this smart, juicy thriller sucked me in. A perfect escape."

Want (2020)
Lynn Steger Strong
"I felt a giddy sort of love for Lynn Steger Strong’s new novel Want. It’s not like anything else: caustic and despairing and sometimes, unexpectedly, laugh out loud funny. Sentence after sentence, this book took my breath away."

Musical Chairs (2020)
Amy Poeppel
"Amy Poeppel's charming MUSICAL CHAIRS made me laugh out loud. Poeppel has a remarkable talent for creating the very best kind of mayhem. Drunken dinner parties, a runaway cat, brilliant musicians, a tattooed florist, drop dead gorgeous twins, crumbling old houses, beautiful Connecticut, secrets and lies--and finally--a wedding, the true hallmark of any delicious comedy. Reading this book was such a pleasure."

Sad Janet (2020)
Lucie Britsch
"I know sad Janet. Sometimes I am sad Janet. At some point in our lives, we could all be a Janet. In her wonderful debut novel, Lucie Britsch celebrates a formerly unheralded state of being: sadness. Embrace your sadness, watch TV, pet a stray dog, masturbate, don't answer the phone. And if you don't feel like taking that pill, try reading Sad Janet instead. It might make you happy."

Everyone Knows How Much I Love You (2020)
Kyle McCarthy
"Compulsively readable."

Rules for Moving (2020)
Nancy Star
"An advice columnist in desperate need of advice. A son who won’t talk. A rented house unfit for habitation. Nancy Star’s poignant novel Rules for Moving captures the chaos and heartbreak that is life—and also the wonder and joy."

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