Marcy Dermansky
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Writer. My new novel HOT AIR is being released on March 18, 2025.
https://marcydermansky.com/
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In news you can't make up, Steven Soderbergh read FIVE of my novels in December 2025.
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This is what I look for in a reader. Thanks, Donald!
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In news you can't make up, Steven Soderbergh read FIVE of my novels in December 2025.
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Jessica Valenti
about 2 months ago
This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies ā and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal. This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
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Kate Tuttle
3 months ago
Letās make sure everyone sees this for what it is: The president tearing down a historically significant edifice so he can build himself a ballroom while the American people face food insecurity and anonymous thugs kidnap people on the streets.
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Brattleboro Literary Festival
3 months ago
Tomorrow, Sunday, October 19th will be the final day of the
#2025BrattleboroLiteraryFestival
! You won't want to miss it! Featuring authors like
@paullisicky.bsky.social
@tiyamiles.bsky.social
@mdermansky.bsky.social
@adacalhoun.bsky.social
and more! The events are free and open to the public!
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Erika Swyler
3 months ago
I needed to see this today. Perhaps you do as well. ā¤ļø
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Monica Maalouf, MD
3 months ago
My husband was detained by ICE today Juan MuƱoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov
@durbin.senate.gov
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Marisa Kabas
3 months ago
Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.
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A Small Book Post. I'm going to be on a panel this Sunday, September 21, at the
@bkbookfest.bsky.social
at 4 pm with
@katefolk.bsky.social
and
@emilyhamilton.bsky.social
. It's going to be fun. Books! Both subversive & entertaining. I'd love to see you there.
brooklynbookfestival.org/event/love-i...
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Love is in the Air (Literally) - Brooklyn Book Festival
Sometimes, all you need to find love is to look up. In Marcy Dermanskyās Hot Air, a childhood crush turned billionaire crash-lands his hot-air balloon into a first date. In Kate Folkās Sky Daddy, a wo...
https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/love-is-in-the-air-literally/
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Roxane Gay
4 months ago
I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?
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Becky Hammer
4 months ago
We love a funny single-sitting book
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It is the end of summer, the end of summer reading. I love this shelf talker, as pictured at
@bookpeople.com
in Austin, Texas. I wanted to offer this public reminder that there are three more days to read HOT AIR this summer, but not to worry you can also read it in the fall.
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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
5 months ago
Spoonbills in the Bonnet CarrƩ Spillway on May 16 in Norco. Shot by Julie Dermansky.
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amy brown
5 months ago
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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Roxane Gay
5 months ago
We will be publishing cultural criticism every day at The Rumpus. We hope to fill some of this egregious void being created by the mainstream media. Relaunch is in October but we are also publishing between now and then.
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A wonderful review of HOT AIR, written by the
@biblioracle.bsky.social
himself who had read all of my books. This pleases me so much.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/09/b...
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Biblioracle: Marcy Dermansky puts ordinary people in almost absurd situations in āHot Airā
It is hard to describe the wonderfully disorienting sensation of entering a Marcy Dermansky novel.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/09/biblioracle-marcy-dermansky/
5 months ago
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Alexander Chee
6 months ago
Thank you.
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Kyle Lukoff
6 months ago
Lavonnia Moore, the librarian fired for including one of my books on a display after a child requested it, sounds incredible and what happened to her should be a crime.
roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/07/05/l...
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South Georgia library manager fired for trans-inclusive display
The branch manager at the Pierce County Library was fired after displaying a trans-inclusive children's book in a public display.
https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/07/05/library-termination-over-trans-books/
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Kamala Harris
7 months ago
On Juneteenth, we celebrate Black freedom, resilience, culture, and the enduring strength of community across generations. We acknowledge our nationās full history and the long, ongoing fight for freedom and justice for Black Americans.
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Josh Gondelman
7 months ago
Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit Iāve ever heard.
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The best of the best books are being banned, the ones that blew my teenaged mind wide open, like Elie Wiesel's and Toni Morrison's Beloved.
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š½LOLGOPš½
8 months ago
I lay out why we can and must stop this atrocity in the House. The first step is to make sure they know we're watching. So everybody who can should call their reps today.
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Defend Medicaid from Republican Budget Cuts (UPDATED 5/8) ā 5 Calls
Update May 8, 2025: A Congressional Budget Office analysis has concluded that various Republican approaches to cutting Medicaid funding to fund ā¦
https://5calls.org/issue/medicaid-cuts-budget-reconciliation/?ref=thefarce.org
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Kate Tuttle
8 months ago
Babies are starving. This couldn't be more clear.
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ICE is now also terrorizing American citizens.
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Sarah Randall
9 months ago
I read Hot Air by Dermansky and Stop Me if Youāve Heard This One by Arnett this week and please, author friends, keep giving us this type of smart-but-not-apocalyptic fiction.
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Here's an interview I did with Anna Dorn about Hot Air where I do a not so great job casting my film, talk about
@amyshearn.bsky.social
's Animal Instict and reveal details about my office where I sometimes write.
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
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Marcy Dermansky on Hot Air by Anna Dorn
Marcy Dermanskyās sixth novel, Hot Air, opens with a bangāor rather, a hot-air balloon crash. Writer and single mom Joannie is on a date with her neighbor Johnny when her childhood crush quite literal...
https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/marcy-dermansky-on-hot-air
9 months ago
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Celeste Ng
9 months ago
Trump's team backing down in front of Harvard should embolden EVERYONE to stand up to them. Do not comply in advance. Instead say "Fuck you, make me."
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Chris Murphy
9 months ago
Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
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I am funny when it comes to book tour. I dread it and then I head out, get a sesame bagel with creem cheese, good coffee, catch the train to Boston and I feel happy. Come see me &
@laurazigman.bsky.social
tonight
@portersqbooks.bsky.social
in Cambridge.
www.portersquarebooks.com/event/marcy-...
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Cait_onthe_luce
9 months ago
So, you want funny? Here are three new books by women that made me laugh. Sucker Punch by
@scaachi.bsky.social
, Stop Me If You've Heard This One by
@kristenarnett.bsky.social
, and Hot Air by
@mdermansky.bsky.social
.
www.islandbooks.com/book/9780593...
www.islandbooks.com/book/9781250...
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Once is your book is out in the world, the book begins to have a life it's own. I am so pleased to read this recommendation from
@flyleafbooks.bsky.social
admist so much other wonderful fiction.
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Celeste Ng
10 months ago
I hope every single Tufts parent out there calls the University and their reps about this.
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Lit Hub
10 months ago
@mdermansky.bsky.social
explains why being kind to yourself is the first step in any writing process.
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The First Step in the Writing Process: Be Kind to Yourself
Often I am askedāas all writers are askedāwhat is my process. I think we all want published writers to give us their secret to success. First of all, to preface this. Yes, I do get writers block. Nā¦
https://lithub.com/the-first-step-in-the-writing-process-be-kind-to-yourself/
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John Cusack
10 months ago
Nice work asshole - No market for swasticars in Germany Letās do the same in US
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Kate Tuttle
10 months ago
Another wonderful book review in Sunday's
@bostonglobe.com
is
@laurenleblanc.bsky.social
writing on the sharp satire and ridiculous situations of HOT AIR, a slim novel that could only have come from the mind of
@mdermansky.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/11/a...
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A kiss, then a disaster ā welcome to the world of Marcy Dermansky - The Boston Globe
In "Hot Air," her sixth novel, Marcy Dermansky shows why she's one of the sharpest writers around.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/11/arts/marcy-dermansky-hot-air-satire/
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
10 months ago
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 āļøāļøāļø Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
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A rave review for HOT AIR in the Boston Globe. "Dermansky is at the top of her game: an iconoclastic writer whose deadpan delivery and spartan writing succeed because of her confidence." Less than a week until its release.
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A kiss, then a disaster ā welcome to the world of Marcy Dermansky - The Boston Globe
In "Hot Air," her sixth novel, Marcy Dermansky shows why she's one of the sharpest writers around.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/11/arts/marcy-dermansky-hot-air-satire/?event=event12
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My novel HOT AIR comes out in two weeks. It's a crazy time to release a book into the world, but I am hoping to distract and delight. Maybe you can come to my book launch at Books Are Magic with
@emmastraub.bsky.social
.
10 months ago
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Celeste Ng
10 months ago
A LOT of people out there saying "I don't like what's going on but a boycott will hurt tipped servers" and "I'm super mad about all this but putting up a protest sticker/flyer seems too radical" and folks, I cannot. *fyi, buy-nothing day tomorrow focuses on big chains. Use cash @ small businesses
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Maris Kreizman
11 months ago
Itās a little more difficult to find an audience now that Iām off Substack, so could you share with friends who like books and shit-talking?
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In news that is not awful, I have a fancy new tour card for Hot Air -- which comes out in less than a month! I am so excited to be in conversation with some of my favorite writers/people:
@emmastraub.bsky.social
,
@laurasimswriter.bsky.social
and
@laurazigman.bsky.social
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11 months ago
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Julie Dermansky
11 months ago
Activists protest Trump's visit to New Orleans as he attended the Super Bowl. The march and rally on Superbowl Sunday was supported by numerous NOLA social justice groups: NOCOP, QTCAP, NOSHIP & FRSO. Here is a set on my site:
www.jsdart.com/.../G0000DSg...
#superbowl
#anti-trump
#protest
#nola
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Eric Umansky
11 months ago
Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen -hot meals for elderly and disabled -groceries for those in need -maternal & child health services -a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The Courts Blocked Trumpās Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.
Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administrationās actions set the stage for challenges to Congressā authority ā an...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-funding-freeze-workarounds
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Indivisible āš
11 months ago
Government funding runs out on March 14. Republicans canāt pass a bill alone, so Democrats have real leverage here. Weāre calling on Democrats to commit to withholding their votes and insist on an end to the Trump-Musk coup rampaging across the government.
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Amy Siskind
11 months ago
Posted around NYC, Chicago, DC and other cities. Be creative. Do something!
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I just finished watching Mo on Netflix. It's a beautiful and funny show, which seems almost impossible considering the subject. The finale, Mo's family returning to Palestine for a visit back home, made me think about making art and the small moments of people living their lives.
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Charles Ornstein
11 months ago
At the NIH, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by
@ivancalcantara.bsky.social
on X. 2/x
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Maxwell Frost
11 months ago
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents.
@jasmineforus.bsky.social
@sethmagaziner.bsky.social
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