Daniel Nester
@danielnestermfa.bsky.social
Poet, nonfiction writer, editor, Queen fan, Shader. Order my new book, HARSH REALM: MY 1990s. danielnester.substack.com
Just up on Substack, after a months' long writer's block: "Process Notes: I Know How You Plagiarized That Semester," which draws from more prompts in my old notebooks.
Come for self-doubt. Stay for the zany flashes of absurdity!
danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
Come for self-doubt. Stay for the zany flashes of absurdity!
danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
September 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Just up on Substack, after a months' long writer's block: "Process Notes: I Know How You Plagiarized That Semester," which draws from more prompts in my old notebooks.
Come for self-doubt. Stay for the zany flashes of absurdity!
danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
Come for self-doubt. Stay for the zany flashes of absurdity!
danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
Make sure you subscribe (it's free!) to Here's Where the Story Ends, the Substack where ex-professor Daniel Nester (that's me!) writes about starting over. danielnester.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Make sure you subscribe (it's free!) to Here's Where the Story Ends, the Substack where ex-professor Daniel Nester (that's me!) writes about starting over. danielnester.substack.com
Just up on Substack: "Process Notes: Moments of Being (Sort Of)."
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
Dispatches from the desk, the notebook, and post-academic life in progress.
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
Dispatches from the desk, the notebook, and post-academic life in progress.
May 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Just up on Substack: "Process Notes: Moments of Being (Sort Of)."
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
Dispatches from the desk, the notebook, and post-academic life in progress.
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/process-no...
Dispatches from the desk, the notebook, and post-academic life in progress.
Just up on Substack: "Once More to the Campus Center."
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/once-more-...
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/once-more-...
May 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Just up on Substack: "Once More to the Campus Center."
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/once-more-...
Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/once-more-...
Just up on Substack: “Fuck it, I’m leaving early.”
"I don’t have to be the one talking. I don’t have to have anything to add. I can just be here, figuring it out."
More at danielnester.substack.com
"I don’t have to be the one talking. I don’t have to have anything to add. I can just be here, figuring it out."
More at danielnester.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Just up on Substack: “Fuck it, I’m leaving early.”
"I don’t have to be the one talking. I don’t have to have anything to add. I can just be here, figuring it out."
More at danielnester.substack.com
"I don’t have to be the one talking. I don’t have to have anything to add. I can just be here, figuring it out."
More at danielnester.substack.com
Just up on Substack: "Collecting My Failures," a post about 8-tracks, failure, and abandoned ideas.
Read at danielnester.substack.com
Read at danielnester.substack.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Just up on Substack: "Collecting My Failures," a post about 8-tracks, failure, and abandoned ideas.
Read at danielnester.substack.com
Read at danielnester.substack.com
Just up on Substack: "A Die Hard Epiphany."
"This year, I watched Die Hard to forget that I don’t have to confess to my mom that I’m watching that Bruce Willis movie again. I will miss hearing her sort of good-hearted disapproval."
More at danielnester.substack.com
"This year, I watched Die Hard to forget that I don’t have to confess to my mom that I’m watching that Bruce Willis movie again. I will miss hearing her sort of good-hearted disapproval."
More at danielnester.substack.com
December 24, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Just up on Substack: "A Die Hard Epiphany."
"This year, I watched Die Hard to forget that I don’t have to confess to my mom that I’m watching that Bruce Willis movie again. I will miss hearing her sort of good-hearted disapproval."
More at danielnester.substack.com
"This year, I watched Die Hard to forget that I don’t have to confess to my mom that I’m watching that Bruce Willis movie again. I will miss hearing her sort of good-hearted disapproval."
More at danielnester.substack.com
When you randomly meet the hosts of #celebritymemoirbookclub at your friend's gig in the East Village.
December 7, 2024 at 4:39 AM
When you randomly meet the hosts of #celebritymemoirbookclub at your friend's gig in the East Village.
Just up on Substack: "I Miss My Students Already."
"At first, coming up from Brooklyn, the upstate students seemed like aliens.
They didn’t grow up on good pizza.¹
I just couldn’t figure out my students’ deal."
More at danielnester.substack.com
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¹ I said what I said.
"At first, coming up from Brooklyn, the upstate students seemed like aliens.
They didn’t grow up on good pizza.¹
I just couldn’t figure out my students’ deal."
More at danielnester.substack.com
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¹ I said what I said.
November 23, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Just up on Substack: "I Miss My Students Already."
"At first, coming up from Brooklyn, the upstate students seemed like aliens.
They didn’t grow up on good pizza.¹
I just couldn’t figure out my students’ deal."
More at danielnester.substack.com
_________________________
¹ I said what I said.
"At first, coming up from Brooklyn, the upstate students seemed like aliens.
They didn’t grow up on good pizza.¹
I just couldn’t figure out my students’ deal."
More at danielnester.substack.com
_________________________
¹ I said what I said.