Marcy Dermansky

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

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

It's sickening.

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

So disgusted by this Supreme Court.

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...

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...

This is exactly the wrong way to go.

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

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?

Hot Air by Marcy Dermansky

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.

I was going to say industrious.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

Really beautiful.

Thank you.

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.

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...

Thank you! I am so pleased.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lighting candles always works for me. I also have some fairy lights in my office that help.

I don't even understand hours like this can be possible, when every government offifce closes on the hour on the dog for public services. You should not have to go vote at 1 AM.

I wouldn't have guessed this!

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.

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 …

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.