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Book Launch: Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz

You are sent the hilarious, quirky, and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman’s terrible and life-changing decisions as she tries (and sometimes fails) to find herself in a world full of dizzying possibilities. Do you:

  • A.) Drop everything you’re doing to read it immediately because Dana Schwartz is an internet darling and you can’t wait to see which fake rom-com lady career you should pursue or which European city should you go to while you’re deep in denial about needing to enter the real world.
  • B.) See option A.

If you answered A:

Congratulations! You’re in for an entertaining joyride as you relive some of Dana’s choice misadventures in college, traveling abroad, and starting off in New York through the internet’s favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz.

Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, Choose Your Own Disaster is a manifesto about the millennial experience, modern feminism, and how the easy advice of “you can be anything you want!” is actually pretty fucking difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be. Dana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows she’s a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, and a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best.

Dana Schwartz is an arts and culture writer based in Los Angeles with writing for The New Yorker, The Guardian, New York Observer, Marie Claire, Glamour, Mic, GQ, VICE, and more. She is currently a staff writer for Entertainment Weekly. She created a parody Twitter account called @GuyInYourMFA based on the people she’s encountered in fiction workshops, and another one called @DystopianYA about the tropes in all of the young adult fiction books she’s read. Her own (non-dystopian) YA book, And We’re Off, was published May 2017 by Penguin/Razorbil.











When: Thu., Jun. 21, 2018 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: powerHouse Arena
28 Adams St.
718-666-3049
Price: Free
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You are sent the hilarious, quirky, and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman’s terrible and life-changing decisions as she tries (and sometimes fails) to find herself in a world full of dizzying possibilities. Do you:

  • A.) Drop everything you’re doing to read it immediately because Dana Schwartz is an internet darling and you can’t wait to see which fake rom-com lady career you should pursue or which European city should you go to while you’re deep in denial about needing to enter the real world.
  • B.) See option A.

If you answered A:

Congratulations! You’re in for an entertaining joyride as you relive some of Dana’s choice misadventures in college, traveling abroad, and starting off in New York through the internet’s favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz.

Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, Choose Your Own Disaster is a manifesto about the millennial experience, modern feminism, and how the easy advice of “you can be anything you want!” is actually pretty fucking difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be. Dana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows she’s a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, and a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best.

Dana Schwartz is an arts and culture writer based in Los Angeles with writing for The New Yorker, The Guardian, New York Observer, Marie Claire, Glamour, Mic, GQ, VICE, and more. She is currently a staff writer for Entertainment Weekly. She created a parody Twitter account called @GuyInYourMFA based on the people she’s encountered in fiction workshops, and another one called @DystopianYA about the tropes in all of the young adult fiction books she’s read. Her own (non-dystopian) YA book, And We’re Off, was published May 2017 by Penguin/Razorbil.

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