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Books by Dana Schwartz
Dana Schwartz is an American humorist, memoirist and journalist. Currently a correspondent at Entertainment Weekly, based in Los Angeles, she has also written for The New Yorker, The Guardian, Glamour, GQ, Vice, and others. She has published a YA novel, And We’re Off (Penguin, 2017), and the memoir Choose Your Own Disaster (Grand Central, 2018).
Choose Your Own Disaster
by Dana Schwartz
Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz is an example of an innovatively-structured book that particularly benefits from the e-book format. It’s a sharp and entertaining memoir of the author’s misspent twenties in the form of a personality test cum choose-your-own-adventure book. Rather than turning to page 264, then page 45, then page 178, one can simply click on the links and be whisked on to the next stage; it lends the reading experience a computer-game feel. It’s a lot of fun.
Interviews with Dana Schwartz
The Best Books for Surviving Your Twenties, recommended by Dana Schwartz
The sheer number of choices facing us during our twenties can be overwhelming, says the memoirist and humorist Dana Schwartz. But there’s no need to panic. Here she selects five brilliant books which will help you navigate early adulthood.
Interviews where books by Dana Schwartz were recommended
Books to Read as Ebooks, recommended by Five Books
If you’re of a certain age, reading a physical, paper book is almost always a more pleasurable experience than reading on an electronic device. Still, ebooks have some advantages that make them difficult to resist, not least of which is cost. Here Five Books editors share tips on when they’ve found ebooks particularly useful.
