It’s kind of amazing that the Guy in Your MFA twitter feed did not exist before last fall. I mean, we live in a world where thousands of young men, many sporting beards and thick-rimmed glasses and who aspire to be the next David Foster Wallace, spend years of their lives hunched over their laptops beside full ashtrays and empty bottles of cheap whiskey just so they can hold court in seminar rooms and make pronouncements like this:
There was also this: “The idea of Twitter is a sociopathic thing. You say things to 5,000 strangers about breakfast cereal. It’s entertainment, you get out the message, and you indulge your narcissistic tendencies.”
Instead, agents have been contacting Schwartz. She turned down several before choosing one and starting work on a proposal for a parody book based on the Guy. But while her agent was shopping that, she started a second Twitter account, Dystopian YA Novel, that gleefully mocks the Divergent trilogy and its imitators.
