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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…

11 min readOct 20, 2020

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

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Daniel Nester

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…

13 min readJul 28, 2023

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The Hard Drive Swap

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Daniel Nester

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

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

10 min readJul 28, 2023

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

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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.

12 min readFeb 10, 2022

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

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Daniel Nester

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!”

5 min readJul 22, 2021

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

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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…

3 min readJul 21, 2021

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Poetry on Vinyl: Ernest Hilbert’s Elegies and Laments

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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…

3 min readJul 20, 2021

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

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Daniel Nester

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…

3 min readJul 20, 2021

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

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Daniel Nester

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

Attention must be paid to style and formatting

11 min readJan 2, 2021

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

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‘The Weakness in Me’: Notes on Joan Armatrading

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

11 min readApr 10, 2018

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‘The Weakness in Me’: Notes on Joan Armatrading

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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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