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Marcy Dermansky

@mdermansky.bsky.social

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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

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...

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

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 10d

I needed to see this today. Perhaps you do as well. ❤️

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · 14d

It's sickening.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14d

Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · 22d

So disgusted by this Supreme Court.

Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · 27d

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...

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · 27d

This is exactly the wrong way to go.

Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · 28d

That is a small easy good thing that I am going to do today.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Sep 8

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 @beckyhammer.bsky.social · Sep 1

We love a funny single-sitting book

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · Aug 30

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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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · Aug 30

I was going to say industrious.

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · Aug 25

Spoonbills in the Bonnet Carré Spillway on May 16 in Norco. Shot by Julie Dermansky. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/phot...

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

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

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · Aug 24

Maybe, the people in DC are bored and hopeless feeling when talking about it. As someone who does not live in an occupied city, I think it might be important to be reminded. I don't want to place a new burden upon you, of course. Please bore us here.

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · Aug 21

Ooh boy. See you on the flip side. We can drink drinks.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Aug 10

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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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · Aug 12

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...

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

Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · Aug 4

Really beautiful.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thank you.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jul 6

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.

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Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social · Jul 6

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

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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thank you! I am so pleased.

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · Jun 19

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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Marcy Dermansky @mdermansky.bsky.social · Jun 18

The more and more I read about how this election was stolen, the more incensed I feel about all of these injustices, crimes committed against humanity committed by this government.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · Jun 7

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.

Text reading: I had to come down to Los Angeles for Work and ended up trying to help with the raid last night. As a Bernie usefully. Waited by the entrance for detainees
We were repeatedly denied access of any kind, and eventually LAPD force removed attorneys ice. Also tear gassed a baby under age two. Today they told us to come back at eight to see the clients, but they ever refused entry to us as well as politicians, including Jimmy, Gomez, and right now. They’re releasing some kind of gas, so the Attorneys can’t breathe

Text reading: Post it so everyone knows. When we were trying to chant their rights ice honked so no one could hear.

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