Marcy Dermansky
@mdermansky.bsky.social
Writer. My new novel HOT AIR is being released on March 18, 2025. https://marcydermansky.com/
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Marcy Dermansky
@mdermansky.bsky.social
· Aug 12
Biblioracle: Marcy Dermansky puts ordinary people in almost absurd situations in ‘Hot Air’
It is hard to describe the wonderfully disorienting sensation of entering a Marcy Dermansky novel.
www.chicagotribune.com
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...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/09/b...
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Let’s 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.
“Treasury employees received an email Monday evening telling them not to document the demolition, the Wall Street Journal reported.”
www.thedailybeast.com/federal-work...
www.thedailybeast.com/federal-work...
Federal Workers Given Secret Order as Trump Tears Down Part of the White House
The administration doesn’t want federal employees documenting the demolition.
www.thedailybeast.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Let’s 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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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!
October 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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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I needed to see this today. Perhaps you do as well. ❤️
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I needed to see this today. Perhaps you do as well. ❤️
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My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, 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
Juan Muñoz, 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
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, 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
Juan Muñoz, 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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Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.
Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.
Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting
A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.
www.cbsnews.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.
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...
Love is in the Air (Literally) - Brooklyn Book Festival
Sometimes, all you need to find love is to look up. In Marcy Dermansky’s Hot Air, a childhood crush turned billionaire crash-lands his hot-air balloon into a first date. In Kate Folk’s Sky Daddy, a wo...
brooklynbookfestival.org
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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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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?
September 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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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We love a funny single-sitting book
September 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We love a funny single-sitting book
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.
August 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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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Spoonbills in the Bonnet Carré Spillway on May 16 in Norco. Shot by Julie Dermansky. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/phot...
August 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Spoonbills in the Bonnet Carré Spillway on May 16 in Norco. Shot by Julie Dermansky. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/phot...
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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
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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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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.
August 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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.
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...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/09/b...
Biblioracle: Marcy Dermansky puts ordinary people in almost absurd situations in ‘Hot Air’
It is hard to describe the wonderfully disorienting sensation of entering a Marcy Dermansky novel.
www.chicagotribune.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/09/b...
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Thank you.
Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
July 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Thank you.
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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...
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.
roughdraftatlanta.com
July 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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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On Juneteenth, we celebrate Black freedom, resilience, culture, and the enduring strength of community across generations. We acknowledge our nation’s full history and the long, ongoing fight for freedom and justice for Black Americans.
June 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
On Juneteenth, we celebrate Black freedom, resilience, culture, and the enduring strength of community across generations. We acknowledge our nation’s full history and the long, ongoing fight for freedom and justice for Black Americans.
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Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.
June 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.
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.
Students, parents and teachers of St. Francis Area Schools in Minnesota who are fighting the review or removal of at least 47 books got a boost from author Dave Eggers last week. pen.org/author-dave-...
Author Dave Eggers Provides Support for Students, Educators Fighting Minnesota School District Book Ban Policy - PEN America
Students of St. Francis Area Schools in Minnesota who are fighting the removal of more than 40 books got a boost from author Dave Eggers last week.
pen.org
May 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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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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.
The first step is to make sure they know we're watching. So everybody who can should call their reps today.
Defend Medicaid from Republican Budget Cuts (UPDATED 5/8) ⭑ 5 Calls
Update May 8, 2025: A Congressional Budget Office analysis has concluded that various Republican approaches to cutting Medicaid funding to fund …
5calls.org
May 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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.
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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Babies are starving. This couldn't be more clear.
May 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Babies are starving. This couldn't be more clear.
ICE is now also terrorizing American citizens.
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
April 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
ICE is now also terrorizing American citizens.
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I read Hot Air by Dermansky and Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One by Arnett this week and please, author friends, keep giving us this type of smart-but-not-apocalyptic fiction.
April 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I read Hot Air by Dermansky and Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One by Arnett this week and please, author friends, keep giving us this type of smart-but-not-apocalyptic fiction.
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...
Marcy Dermansky on Hot Air by Anna Dorn
Marcy Dermansky’s sixth novel, Hot Air, opens with a bang—or 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...
www.hobartpulp.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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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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."
Another crucial lesson from this Harvard situation: There is no plan B. Trump's team had no idea what to do if Harvard said "no fuck you."
By first doubling down on the threats and then backing away and lying, they weakened their hand even more! Harvard woudl be wise to say no to the next threat.
By first doubling down on the threats and then backing away and lying, they weakened their hand even more! Harvard woudl be wise to say no to the next threat.
April 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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."