Marcy Dermansky

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5.0 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Marcy Dermansky: House of Balloons (2 ounces vodka, 1 ounce Aperol, 1/2 ounce lemon juice, 1/2 ounce grapefruit juice, simple syrup, top with club soda) Marcy talks about the struggles of a working writer including waiting in an unemployment line in New York while holding her newborn baby the week of publication of her novel, her isolating move to Germany and her return to New York where she was a more productive writer, how publishing short fiction can in some ways be more difficult than publishing a novel, and the fact that someone she is friends with on Facebook is the inspiration for a major character in her new novel though he does not know it

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0:00.0	Dedicated is expanding. We are now filming our segments. We are doing some slick new video inside
0:06.0	the Sirius XM studios. So if you want to see me fixing the cocktails and having conversations
0:10.7	with our awesome guests, go to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or the Sirius XM app, and you can
0:16.5	see us in studio. Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt.
0:22.1	You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's look at the lives and works of some of your favorite authors and hear conversations with the world's greatest writers as they discuss their writing lifestyle, creative process, latest work, and behind-the-scenes revelations.
0:41.8	Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're with Marcy Dermanski. She's the
0:46.0	award-winning author of six novels and many short stories. Her latest is the novel,
0:50.8	Hot Air, which among heaps of other praise, Kirkus reviews in a starred review,
0:56.8	says, A New Dermansky novel is like a holiday declared out of the blue. I loved it. It's a funny,
1:02.0	insightful, smart book, and it's kind of in the zeitgeist, given the kinds of folks that are in
1:07.0	the headlines these days. Marcy, welcome. Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here. I love your drink choice. I just learned for you before we got rolling here that your publicist picked, the House of Balloons cocktail. Yes, which everybody likes, of course. I've never heard of it, but I appreciate bringing a little pizzazz to the cocktail choice in the show. I'd never heard of it either. But it's a vodka-based drink with
1:28.1	apparel. So that sounds fun. And of course, there's this hot air balloon, which is a featured
1:33.3	part of your novel. Yeah, it ties in. Yeah. All right. So it's vodka, apparel, which is kind of
1:42.2	a fun. So you haven't practiced this before right now. I didn't practice it.
1:45.0	That's fine.
1:46.0	So we're going to just let it.
1:47.0	It's got grapefruit juice too, which is like the teenage drink is grapefruit juice and vodka to get drunk.
1:51.0	That's right.
1:52.0	Yeah, we'll be like our, our, revert to our teenage selves here.
1:56.0	No, hopefully not.
1:57.0	I'll go light on the grapefruit, so I'm not too teenagey.
2:03.7	That's some simple.
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