Date: December 4th 2009

Here's Daniel Nester discussing different methods of mooning, with the Phillyist:

http://phillyist.com/2009/12/03/phillyist_interviews_author_daniel.php

If you'd like to learn more, please come out and meet Dan at one of his two events this week in the New York area.

He'll be reading from his new book, HOW TO BE INAPPROPRIATE...and with any luck he'll bring along his talk box guitar and play a solo.

When: Saturday, December 5th at 3pm
Where: Marlton Barnes & Noble
200 West Route 70
Marlton, NJ 08053
856-596-7058


If you can't make it to that one, he'll also be in NYC on December 10th.

When: Thursday, December 10th at 8pm
Where: Happy Ending
302 Broome St. (between Forsyth and Eldridge)
New York, NY
212-334-9676

This is part of the Animal Farm reading series. Also reading at the event are Jessica Anthony and Rachel Sherman



More on HOW TO BE INAPPROPRIATE:

Dry, offbeat, and mostly profane, How to Be Inappropriate glorifies all things TMI. Arguments, lists, barstool rants, queries, pedantic footnotes, play scripts, commonplace miscellany, profiles, and overly revealing memoir-ettes, How to Be Inappropriate adds up to the portrait of a 20-something-become-30-something, bachelor-become-husband, boy-man-about-town who bumbles through life obsessed with one thing: extreme impropriety.

In How to Be Inappropriate, Daniel Nester determines the boundary of acceptable behavior—mostly by disregarding it. As a here-to-cut-a-hipster-swathe-through-the-city man 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 fields middle fingers from bratty NYU film students, explores the world of Christian parody bands, 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.

"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

“If there was Nobel Prize for Achievement in Inappropriateness, Daniel Nester would be Laureate of the Universe. Until then, he'll have to settle for having written this shockingly innovative stunner of a book. Nester brings his irreverent, elegiac sensibility to subjects from ranging from the essence of literary truth to the enduring mystery of flatulence, managing in the bargain to highlight the bleak hilarity of human existence—which, when you think about it, is the most inappropriate thing of all.” —Rachel Shukert, Have You No Shame?

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

About Daniel Nester:

Daniel Nester's writing has appeared in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Open City, Nerve, The Daily Beast, The Best American Poetry, Time Out New York, The Morning News, The Bloomsbury Review, Poets & Writers, and Bookslut. He is the former Sestinas editor for McSweeney’s and teaches at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. He lives in Upstate New York with his wife and daughter.



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