Date: October 16th 2009

Book launch!

On Wednesday, come to BookCourt for the simultaneous book launches of MY DOG ATE MY NOBEL PRIZE, the...ahem...*enhanced* memoir of the wickedly funny Jeff Martin, and HOW TO BE INAPPROPRIATE, in which Dan Nester determines the boundaries of acceptable behavior...mostly by disregarding them.


When: Wednesday, October 21st, 7 pm - 8:30 pm

Where: BookCourt
163 Court St. (between Pacific & Dean)
Brooklyn
(718) 875-3677

More info:
http://www.bookcourt.org/category/events/

Hope to see you there!



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MY DOG ATE MY NOBEL PRIZE:


"Jeff Martin is a first class liar. Even better than me." —James Frey


"Remember when Jeff Martin took over lead-singer duties for Velvet Revolver, and rechristened the band 'Fleece Musket'? No? Then this is the book to set you straight—a wild-eyed almost-alternate history of not-so-long-ago, in which so much depends upon the Zelig-like Mr. Martin." —Ed Park, author of Personal Days

“Frankly, I had my doubts about Jeff Martin’s book. But while I was reading it, my tumor started to shrink. By the time I reached the end, it was gone!! The doctors have their fingers crossed. So thanks, Jeff, I guess.” —Chip Kidd, author of The Cheese Monkeys and The Learners



Jeff Martin was born in 1980. Jeff Martin made millions on the stock market. Jeff Martin lost millions on the stock market. Jeff Martin stopped a Chinese tank at Tiananmen Square. Jeff Martin managed Michael Dukakis’s 1988 presidential campaign. Jeff Martin co-wrote Aliens 2: More Aliens with James Cameron. Jeff Martin had a torrid and brief creative relationship with Disney’s animation department. Jeff Martin disguised himself as a midget, joined NASA, and became the first-ever child in space, all in tribute to the Challenger space shuttle tragedy.

Such is only a sample of the amazing life of Jeff Martin, a modern-day renaissance man/child, adept at everything, and uniquely attuned to the goings-on of our evolving planet. He is equal parts Doogie Howser and Forest Gump — as likely to break an age barrier as to coincidentally find himself in the trenches of history.

Get ready for a groundbreaking memoir overflowing with action, history, social commentary, and unchecked facts. Along the way, there will be love, loss, cool drawings from Truth Serum cartoonist Jon Adams, and some more unchecked facts. And as a free promotion, we’re offering a money-back guarantee that this book will not disgrace Oprah.




HOW TO BE INAPPROPRIATE:

“Daniel Nester is funny as hell.” —Stephen Elliott

"Daniel Nester is a stone-cold genius. Clever, lyrical, inappropriate in all the right ways—I'd rather read him than just about anyone right now." —Darin Strauss, author of More Than It Hurts You

"Daniel Nester's essays are haunted by a Victorian perversity. His writing exhibits a kind of Tourrette syndrome in which the author continuously abases himself and revels in his own shortcomings. It's a painful kind of comedy leavened by gentle good humor and wonder." —Thomas Beller, author of The Sleep-Over Artist and How To Be a Man



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.

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