Biography

Dana Adam Shapiro was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for his first film, Murderball, a documentary about the United States Paralympic Quad Rugby Team. His latest film, Monogamy, starring Chris Messina and Rashida Jones, is nominated for a 2011 Independent Spirit Award and will be released theatrically by Oscilloscope Laboratories. His 2007 animated short about unrequited love and recycling, My Biodegradable Heart, was an official selection at Sundance and many other festivals around the world. His debut novel, The Every Boy (published by Houghton Mifflin), was a New York Times Editors' Choice and a 2005 Book Sense Notable Book. Other projects include Holler, a film about segregated proms in the South, which he wrote and will be produced by Screen Gems in 2011, and American Family, a documentary-in-progress about interracial couples. Shapiro is a former senior editor at Spin, a founding editor and senior writer of ICON magazine, and he is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine and other publications. He was the 2007 Artist-in-Residence at Bucknell University and currently lives in Venice, California.
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[on his book 'You Can Be Right or You Can Be Married] I set out to vicariously to live through the tragedies of others, hoping to glean some wisdom from the wreckage and to ultimately become so fluent in such failure that I would be able to avoid in my own love life.

I think the idea of positive conflict, and how to fight fairly, is the key to a good relationship. Don't surrender. Don't pick fights but don't avoid them. Admit if something bothers you.

It's a silly promise to say, 'I will love you forever'. No one can say that. it's just not true. I don't care. No one can say it and no one should be loved unconditionally.