Jessica Reed

Head of features and associate editor, @GuardianUS. I'm French (sorry). 'We can't stop here, this is bat country' - Hunter S Thompson.

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Recommended by Jessica Reed

In the (great!) book Bad Marie, the French actress character is appalled that Americans go to the cinema and eat hot dogs while watching art.... https://t.co/rxSblqK2GP (from X)

Bad Marie book cover

Marcy Dermansky(you?)

“Reading Marcy Dermansky’s Bad Marie is like spending a rainy afternoon in a smaller, older movie theater watching a charming French movie with a woman (or a man) you’ve just met on the street and already like far too much. It’s sinful in all the right ways, delicate, seditious, and deliciously evil.” — Frederick Barthelme “Dermansky excels at depicting extreme emotional states and how we rationalize them.” —Village Voice From the critically-acclaimed author of Twins, Marcy Dermansky, comes a highly original novel of Manhattan, Paris, and Mexico; of love and motherhood; and of life on the lam. Fans of Heather O’Neill (Lullabies for Little Criminals) and A.M. Homes (Music for Torching) will revel in the wicked delights of Bad Marie.