Marian Thurm (born 1952) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Thurm is the author of five short story collections and eight novels, most recently, The Blackmailer’s Guide to Love (Delphinium Books, 2021). Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Michigan Quarterly Review, Narrative Magazine, The Southampton Review, and many other magazines, and have been included in The Best American Short Stories, and numerous other anthologies. Thurm was raised in Oceanside, Long Island, and has resided in NYC for over 30 years. She is a graduate of Vassar College and has an MA in creative writing from Brown University. Marian Thurm has taught creative writing at Yale University, Barnard College, Columbia University, the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, and in the MFA programs at Columbia University and Brooklyn College. Books • The Blackmailer’s Guide to Love (novel) 2021 • Pleasure Palace; New and Selected Stories (short stories) 2021 • The Good Life (novel) 2016 • Today is Not Your Day (short stories) 2015 (New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice) • Slicker (pseudonymous novel by Lucy Jackson) 2010 • Posh (pseudonymous novel by Lucy Jackson) 2007 • What’s Come Over You? (short stories) 2001 • The Clairvoyant (novel) 1997 (New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year) • The Way We Live Now (novel) 1991 • Henry in Love (novel) 1990 • These Things Happen (short stories) 1988 (New York Times Book Review New and Noteworthy) • Walking Distance (novel) 1987 (New York Times Book Review New and Noteworthy) • Floating (short stories) 1984 Short Stories "Secrets"-- The New Yorker January 16, 1978 "Winter"-- The New Yorker January 1, 1979 "Markings"-- The Atlantic Monthly December 1979 "California"-- Redbook November 1980 "Aftermath"-- Mississippi Review Spring/Summer 1981 "Skaters"-- The New Yorker February 8, 1982 "Starlight"-- The New Yorker May 10, 1982 Reprinted in: Best American Short Stories 1983, edited by Anne Tyler American Short Stories of Today, edited by Kenji Kobayashi and Keiko Takeuchi 1986 American Families, edited by Barbara H. Solomon 1989 Mothers, 20 Stories of Contemporary Motherhood, edited by Katrina Keninson and Kathleen Hirsch 1996 "Floating"-- The New Yorker July 26, 1982 "Uncle Dad"-- Redbook January 1983 "Still-Life"-- The New Yorker May 23, 1983 Reprinted in Legal Fictions: Short Stories about Lawyers and the Law, edited by Jay Wishingrad 1992 "Grace"-- Fiction Network Magazine Fall 1983 "Leaving Johanna"-- Mademoiselle October 1983 "Lovers"-- The