How to Be Inappropriate

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 NPRs 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 wont have to.