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How to Be Inappropriate. By Daniel Nester. 272 pages. Soft Skull Press. $14.95.
How to Be Inappropriate
by Daniel Nester
A TMI compendia of inappropriate and humorous nonfiction.
"Too much information” should be the tagline for this debut collection of humorous nonfiction pieces from Daniel Nester. Based on Nester’s former life as a 20-something hipster, How to Be Inappropriate chronicles his various inappropriate misadventures through a series of what he calls “memoirettes,” from trying to begin a relationship with a Brooklyn painter who pays people to lick her feet, to teaching curse words to Chinese ESL students. Told through a series of essays, lists, rants, play scripts, and profiles, this part-memoir, part-random collection of nonsense is an entertaining look at defying the conventions of appropriate behavior. “Nester treats every one of his varied subject matters with the appropriate (or should I say, inappropriate?) level of tongue-in-cheek humor,” writes The Saint Rose Chronicle.
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