Podcasts about guyinyourmfa

Kelly rings in the new year with Dana Schwartz, the writer behind @GuyInYourMFA to talk about her new book that satirizes a bounty of white, male writers.

This week Hannah is joined by star writer and author Dana Schwartz (Entertainment Weekly, Twitter accounts @GuyinyourMFA and @DystopianYA, plus books "And We're Off" and "Choose Your Own Disaster" TO NAME A FEW!) to discuss the insanely dark Don Bluth 90's animated film "Thumbelina". The girls delve into the Don Bluth vs. Disney feud, the twisted inner workings of the movie's characters, and even reveal which Thumbelina suitors they'd kill, f***, and marry!

This week Jesse and Kevin talk about naps, waking up early, ice cream, the passage of time, reading games, chambers with secrets in them, vampires, getting back into bed, finding the time to write, reading all the books, 33 Minutes, watching the oscars through twitter, how to make coffee, macaroni soup, and the best way to cook pasta. Links Chris Rock has a great bit on jobs versus careers. Kevin is excited to play the new Torment RPG. Paul Dean's article about Stardew Valley makes Kevin want to write more. Notable Twitter accounts: @GuyInYourMFA @dystopianya @alexandraerin @GlennF @SwiftOnSecurity @KermitTheFrog Kevin's biggest writing influences were David Ives, David Mamet, and Aaron Sorkin. Kevin thinks Jesse would enjoy The Expanse and the Battlestar Galactica board game. But Jesse's not so sure. Moka pots make great coffee. Bannock bread is an easy quick bread. The cold water pasta method is some bullshit. (Sorry Kevin and Alton).

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dana Schwartz is a writer comedian and behind the wildly popular twitter parody accounts @GuyinyourMFA and @DystopanYA. Dana chats about entering Brown University and finding her way to comedy, interning at CONAN, starting a writers colony for young women called The Grange, sexism within comedy and literature, television, developing her comedic sense on the internet, using social media as a tool and much more.