David Shapiro

26PhiladelphiaBrooklyn, New York CityLaw student/novelist/occasional reporter for The New Yorker . I will graduate from school in May and start working at a large corporate law firm in the fall. [ed note: David is the man behind Pitchfork Reviews , his book You're Not Much Use to Anyone was a best-seller, and he has a film coming out about his life produced by the same people that made The Kids are Alright.]Twitter, @davidshapiro_6 One summer in college, I biked to an ex-girlfriend's house outside of Philadelphia (from Manhattan). I thought that by going on such an arduous journey, it would prove, like, how I felt strongly about her. I didn't call before I went because I was afraid she would tell me she didn't want me to come. And my intuition was right—it seemed like she didn't really want to see me. She was seeing someone else. I really should have called ahead. But she was impressed by the biking, I think.I prefer a woman who can sit through about seven or eight episodes of Seinfeld in a row, who can cut my hair, who enjoys her work, and who doesn't have a taste for very expensive food or restaurants that have multiple-hour waits for tables.