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 Whoopee
Cushion Coupon. When you buy a copy of the book and send this
coupon along with the book, to Daniel Nester's home, he will send
you an official How to Be Inappropriate whoopee cushion. That's
right: inflate one of these puppies and let the faux farts fly!
While supplies last. [PDF
version ]
Shelf talker. You know those pieces of paper that stick out
of bookstore shelves that touts a title of note? They're called shelf-talkers,
and here at Inappropriate Headquarters, we have made some for your own
shelf-talking pleasure. print it out, and place it under copies of How
to Be Inappropriate at your local bookstore. Or print one out and
place one on your own bookshelf! Alternativelty, you can use this as
a bookmark or to flag down the authorities at a roadside accident. [PDF]
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"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
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"His stories are,
as the title suggests, inappropriate, and they often engender squeamishness,
discomfort, and laughter. But
they are fresh and, at times, touching, qualities
that make this an enjoyable read...Recommended for readers who enjoy memoirs
and essays."--Library Journal
Do you have all your How to Be
Inappropriate merch?
Dry, offbeat, and mostly profane,
this debut collection of humorous nonfiction glorifies all things inappropriate
and TMI.
Arguments, lists, barstool rants, queries, pedantic footnotes, play
scripts, commonplace miscellany, profiles, and overly revealing memoirettes,
How to Be Inappropriate adds up to the portrait of a twenty-something-become-thirty-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 of mooning and attempts to cast a spell on
a neighbor who fails to curb his dog. He befriends exiled video-game
king Todd Rogers, and reimagines Terry Gross’s Fresh Air conversation
with—and invents a robot version of—Kiss bassist Gene Simmons.
No matter which misadventure catches your eye, How to Be Inappropriate
will make you appreciate that someone else has experienced these embarrassing
sides of life so that you won’t have to.
 Advance
praise for How to Be Inappropriate.
"Daniel
Nester is funny as hell."—Stephen Elliott, author of The
Adderall Diaries and Happy Baby
"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
"If there was Nobel Prize for Achievement in Inappropriateness,
Daniel Nester would be Laureate of the Universe. Until then, he'll have
settle for having written this shockingly innovative stunner of a book.
Nester brings his irreverent, elegiac sensibilty to subjects 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, author of Have You No Shame?
"Daniel Nester's essays are haunted by a Victorian perversity.
His writing exhibits a kind of Tourette 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
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