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Dry, offbeat, and mostly profane, this debut collection of humorous nonfiction glorifies all things inappropriate and TMI. A compendia of probing essays, lists, profiles, barstool rants, queries, pedantic footnotes, play scripts, commonplace miscellany, and overly revealing memoir, How to Be Inappropriate adds up to the portrait of an artist who bumbles through life obsessed with one thing: extreme impropriety.
In How to Be Inappropriate, Daniel Nester determines the boundary of acceptable behavior by completely disregarding it. As a twenty-something hipster, he looks for love with a Williamsburg abstract painter who has had her feet licked for money. As a teacher, he tries out curse words with Chinese students in ESL classes. Along the way, Nester provides a short cultural history on mooning and attempts to cast a spell on a neighbor who fails to curb his dog. He befriends exiled video game king Todd Rogers, re-imagines a conversation with NPR’s Terry Gross, and invents a robot version of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons.
No matter which misadventure catches their eye in this eclectic series of essays, How to Be Inappropriate makes readers appreciate that someone else has experienced these embarrassing sides of life, so that they won’t have to.
In How to Be Inappropriate, Daniel Nester determines the boundary of acceptable behavior by completely disregarding it. As a twenty-something hipster, he looks for love with a Williamsburg abstract painter who has had her feet licked for money. As a teacher, he tries out curse words with Chinese students in ESL classes. Along the way, Nester provides a short cultural history on mooning and attempts to cast a spell on a neighbor who fails to curb his dog. He befriends exiled video game king Todd Rogers, re-imagines a conversation with NPR’s Terry Gross, and invents a robot version of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons.
No matter which misadventure catches their eye in this eclectic series of essays, How to Be Inappropriate makes readers appreciate that someone else has experienced these embarrassing sides of life, so that they won’t have to.
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Daniel Nester is the author most recently of Shader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Making Out in Church, Grief, and Other Unlearnable Subjects (99: The Press 2015). Previous books include How to Be Inappropriate (Soft Skull, 2010), God Save My Queen I and II (Soft Skull, 2003 and 2004), and The Incredible Sestina Anthology (Write Bloody, 2014), which he edited. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Morning News, The Rumpus, Best American Poetry, Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll, and Now Write! Nonfiction. He is an associate professor of English at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY.
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A "deeply funny new collection of booger-flecked nonfiction...While all of these lowbrow reflections are amusing, it's when Nester is semiserious that he's at his best....As a whole, How to Be Inappropriate reads like a coming-of-age tale in which adulthood arrives with a refreshingly juvenile mind-set."-Time Out New York
"Unafraid of offending genteel audiences, How to Be Inappropriate details one man's struggle to divest himself from a passion for vulgarity, as expressible in many verbal and physical forms. For those who wonder what modern fables legendary satirists might spin if alive today, this is a great place to start."--Virginia Konchan, Rain Taxi
"In this essay collection from Soft Skull press, Nester tries very hard to show that he is, indeed, living up to the title. He devotes an entire chapter to mooning, including a list of synonyms for the act (such as "inverted fruit cup"), and one to farting. But the real fun lies in his take on such things as ApologetiX, a Christian rock parody band, and a fascinating profile of a professional videogamer. We'll take Nester's pop culture meanderings over his attempts at frat-boy humor any day."--Penthouse
"Unafraid of offending genteel audiences, How to Be Inappropriate details one man's struggle to divest himself from a passion for vulgarity, as expressible in many verbal and physical forms. For those who wonder what modern fables legendary satirists might spin if alive today, this is a great place to start."--Virginia Konchan, Rain Taxi
"In this essay collection from Soft Skull press, Nester tries very hard to show that he is, indeed, living up to the title. He devotes an entire chapter to mooning, including a list of synonyms for the act (such as "inverted fruit cup"), and one to farting. But the real fun lies in his take on such things as ApologetiX, a Christian rock parody band, and a fascinating profile of a professional videogamer. We'll take Nester's pop culture meanderings over his attempts at frat-boy humor any day."--Penthouse
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