Dana Schwartz is an arts and entertainment writer for the New York Observer. She was formerly a New Yorker cartoon assistant and a staff writer and video producer at Mental Floss. She runs the parody Twitter accounts for @guyinyourMFA and @dystopianya. In this episode she discusses female vs male authors in relation to the mainstream media, college writing classes, developing an audience for parody Twitter accounts, creating her own online dating mechanism, giving a police report for assault as she's standing next to Salman Rushdie, and failing to write a book based on her parody twitter account @guyinyourmfa. ***This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Writers Who Don’t Write, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding storytelling, writing, and literature like Storybound, Book Dreams and The History of Literature.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices