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Josie Reconsidered: Notes on The Outfield’s “Your Love”

I’m going to try and write in a serious way about a mindless pop-rock song, about how the dark clouds of good taste sometimes part and let…

Oct 20, 2020

Josie Reconsidered: Notes on The Outfield’s “Your Love”

Oct 20, 2020

The Hard Drive Swap

I have this recurring dream about a record store. It is brightly lit, with lots of windows. You can see the counter as you walk in from the…

Jul 28, 2023

The Hard Drive Swap

Jul 28, 2023

No Escape From Reality: A Review of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

“The bad guy in every musician’s biopic is the musician himself.” — Zadie Smith

Jul 28, 2023

Screen capture from Barrelhouse magazine, with image of Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, wearing a crown.

Jul 28, 2023

Here Today, Here Tomorrow: On the Lifespan of the Literary Magazine

A reprint of a February 2011 article by Daniel Nester and Steve Black, which ran on the now-defunct Bookslut website.

Feb 10, 2022

A chart entitled “Survival of Literary Magazines Launched 1980–1994”

Feb 10, 2022

Poetry on Vinyl: An Interview with Jeff Alessandrelli of Fonograf Editions

I suspect I know what you’re thinking, dear readers. “Poetry and vinyl records?” you exclaim. “That’s a recipe for commercial disaster!”

Jul 22, 2021

Poetry on Vinyl: An Interview with Jeff Alessandrelli of Fonograf Editions

Jul 22, 2021

Poetry on Vinyl: Ernest Hilbert’s Elegies and Laments

What would it sound like if a book of poetry had its own musical score, like a film, written specifically to match the poems line for line…

Jul 21, 2021

Poetry on Vinyl: Ernest Hilbert’s Elegies and Laments

Jul 21, 2021

Poetry on Vinyl: Some Haystacks Don’t Even Have Any Needle

“You know what they say about actors performing poetry?” my old professor, Philip Levine, once asked our class. “They make bad poems sound…

Jul 20, 2021

Poetry on Vinyl: Some Haystacks Don’t Even Have Any Needle

Jul 20, 2021

Poetry on Vinyl: Michèlle T. Clinton and Wanda Coleman, Black/Angeles

Record-listening and writing go hand in hand for me. It’s the throughline of my life. Heaven, if it exists, will consist of a room with a…

Jul 20, 2021

Poetry on Vinyl: Michèlle T. Clinton and Wanda Coleman, Black/Angeles

Jul 20, 2021

Why Are the Poetry Format Options on the Web So Sh*tty?

Attention must be paid to style and formatting

Jan 2, 2021

Why Are the Poetry Format Options on the Web So Sh*tty?

Jan 2, 2021

‘The Weakness in Me’: Notes on Joan Armatrading

An attempt at “converting” you into a devotee of a brilliant singer-songwriter

Apr 10, 2018

‘The Weakness in Me’: Notes on Joan Armatrading

Apr 10, 2018

Daniel Nester

Daniel Nester

Writer, teacher, Queen fan. New book, Harsh Realm: My 1990s, coming out soon. More than you need to know at http://danielnester.com

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