Dana Schwartz

year in books

Dana Schwartz’s Followers (4,030)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
Katy
840 books | 79 friends

Hayley
587 books | 151 friends

Catheri...
3,317 books | 194 friends

Amy
Amy
5,620 books | 474 friends

Adam Ar...
494 books | 238 friends

Madalena
363 books | 17 friends

Sara!
525 books | 49 friends

Zero
235 books | 503 friends

More friends…

Dana Schwartz

Goodreads Author


Born
in Chicago, The United States
Website

Twitter

Genre

Member Since
June 2012


Dana Schwartz was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago. She attended Brown University where she studied biology and public policy before realizing that she would only be happy if she tried to be a writer. While in college, she created the viral parody twitter account @GuyInYourMFA. Dana worked as a writer for Mental Floss, The Observer, and Entertainment Weekly, with additional bylines for GQ, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, and NewYorker.com.

Dana is the host and creator of the hit history podcast Noble Blood. She also writes for television. She lives in Los Angeles.

To ask Dana Schwartz questions, please sign up.

Popular Answered Questions

Dana Schwartz Don't forget that it's supposed to be fun! If it's not fun for you to write, it won't be fun for people to read. BUT, on the other hand, turning a hob…moreDon't forget that it's supposed to be fun! If it's not fun for you to write, it won't be fun for people to read. BUT, on the other hand, turning a hobby into a job makes it, well, a JOB. Writing as a job can be a slog. It means you have to do it even when you don't feel like it. You have to come at it with discipline (she said, giving advice that she doesn't always take herself.) This is a long-winded answer that says very little. I guess the truth is, there is no one-sized-fits-all advice about making a career out of the creative. Wait, I came up with some: make a LOT of art. Throw lots of pasta at the wall. Get used to rejection. And keep at it!(less)
Dana Schwartz I still don't feel like a writer most of the time! But, I think it was when I first got published in a magazine that I read when I was younger—seeing …moreI still don't feel like a writer most of the time! But, I think it was when I first got published in a magazine that I read when I was younger—seeing my name in print was a real MOMENT. (less)
Average rating: 3.84 · 159,287 ratings · 24,084 reviews · 17 distinct worksSimilar authors
Anatomy: A Love Story (The ...

3.84 avg rating — 110,237 ratings — published 2022 — 57 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Immortality: A Love Story (...

3.89 avg rating — 38,872 ratings — published 2023 — 37 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
And We're Off

3.20 avg rating — 2,466 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Choose Your Own Disaster

3.56 avg rating — 1,751 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The White Man's Guide to Wh...

by
3.62 avg rating — 589 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Iron Man 2020: Robot Revolu...

by
2.64 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Deadpool (2018-2019) Annual #1

by
4.12 avg rating — 50 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Dana Schwartz 2 Books Colle...

4.52 avg rating — 44 ratings7 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
2020 Rescue #1

by
3.22 avg rating — 59 ratings4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
2020 Rescue #2

by
3.07 avg rating — 45 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Dana Schwartz…
Anatomy: A Love Story Immortality: A Love Story
(2 books)
by
3.85 avg rating — 149,070 ratings

2020 Rescue #1 2020 Rescue #2
(2 books)
by
2.90 avg rating — 203 ratings

Related News

  As dedicated readers already know, some of the best and most innovative stories on the shelves come from the constantly evolving realm of...
77 likes · 5 comments
"Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end."   This slightly unnerving quote, from the French poet and novelist Rémy de Gourmont, nicely...
105 likes · 10 comments
When Dana Schwartz started writing about a 19th-century pandemic ravaging Edinburgh in her latest book, Anatomy: A Love Story, she had no idea...
50 likes · 2 comments

Dana’s Recent Updates

Dana Schwartz and 1 other person liked Freya's review of The Arcane Arts:
The Arcane Arts by S.D. Coverly
"Review to come…."
The Arcane Arts by S.D. Coverly
"5.0 / 5.0

I need more time to sit with this but it is excellent.

I have had sporadic luck finding a dark academia story with a good mix of scholarly and plot stakes to make the story interesting but also intellectually engaging. This does that and has" Read more of this review »
The Arcane Arts by S.D. Coverly
"4.5 ★

This has to be one of the best student–professor romances I’ve read. I loved how the story didn’t shy away from the academic world they both inhabit; it was thoroughly explored, and it made their dynamic feel grounded and authentic rather than j" Read more of this review »
The Arcane Arts by S.D. Coverly
"This book had me from the setting alone. Dark academia is one of my favorite aesthetics, and The Arcane Arts absolutely delivers on that front. Newlyn University feels immersive and slightly suffocating in the best way — all ambition, prestige, and s" Read more of this review »
Dana Schwartz rated a book it was amazing
Iron Man 2020 by Dana Schwartz
Rate this book
Clear rating
Dana Schwartz rated a book it was amazing
Deadpool (2018-2019) Annual #1 by Dana Schwartz
Rate this book
Clear rating
Dana Schwartz rated a book it was amazing
2020 Rescue #1 by Dana Schwartz
2020 Rescue #1
by Dana Schwartz (Goodreads Author)
Rate this book
Clear rating
Dana Schwartz rated a book it was amazing
2020 Rescue #2 by Dana Schwartz
2020 Rescue #2
by Dana Schwartz (Goodreads Author)
Rate this book
Clear rating
Dana Schwartz has read
Deadpool (2018-2019) Annual #1 by Dana Schwartz
Rate this book
Clear rating
Dana Schwartz has read
2020 Rescue #1 by Dana Schwartz
2020 Rescue #1
by Dana Schwartz (Goodreads Author)
Rate this book
Clear rating
More of Dana's books…
Quotes by Dana Schwartz  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“Someone should tell you you're beautiful every time the sun comes up. Someone should tell you you're beautiful on Wednesdays. And at teatime. Someone should tell you you're beautiful on Christmas Day and Christmas Eve and the evening before Christmas Eve, and on Easter. He should tell you on Guy Fawkes Night and on New Year's, and on the eigth of August, just because.”
Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“My heart is yours, Hazel Sinnett," Jack said. "Forever. Beating or still.”
Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“It was an impossible situation, a trick of society as a whole: force women to live at the mercy of whichever man wants them but shame them for anything they might do to get a man to want them.”
Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“You get to choose what you want to be. You don’t need skills you were born with or permission. If you want to be an artist or whatever, just work harder than everyone else and become an artist!”
Dana Schwartz, And We're Off

“WHICH FAKE ROM-COM LADY CAREER SHOULD YOU PURSUE?

...Think Bond girl—you’re incredibly smart in the one specific area that just so happens to help the protagonist in this one very specific instant of the plot. “Give me that,” you’ll say, snatching the hieroglyph from the hero’s hand. “I have two PhDs in cryptozoological translation.” You’ll shove the hero aside from the beeping machine. “I’m NASA’s top-ranking expert in nuclear disarmament techniques.” Does it make sense? No, but who cares? You are very, very pretty. And smart, definitely smart because even though you look like a supermodel and wear very sexy clothing and a full face of makeup, you are also wearing glasses. Sure, twenty-four looks a little young to have three PhDs but they’re pretty sure making you smart in whatever will move the plot forward means this movie is feminist. You will either end up running away with the hero, or you will die. Apologies.”
Dana Schwartz, Choose Your Own Disaster

No comments have been added yet.