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Daniel Nester

@danielnestermfa.bsky.social

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Poet, nonfiction writer, editor, Queen fan, Shader. Order my new book, HARSH REALM: MY 1990s. danielnester.substack.com

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Daniel Nester @danielnestermfa.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Literally a bird feeder poem. I just can't anymore.

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Daniel Nester @danielnestermfa.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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...

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Daniel Nester @danielnestermfa.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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

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Daniel Nester @danielnestermfa.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

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.

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Daniel Nester @danielnestermfa.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Just up on Substack: "Once More to the Campus Center." Read it here: danielnester.substack.com/p/once-more-...

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Daniel Nester @danielnestermfa.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

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

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Daniel Nester @danielnestermfa.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Just up on Substack: "Collecting My Failures," a post about 8-tracks, failure, and abandoned ideas. Read at danielnester.substack.com

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Daniel Nester @danielnestermfa.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

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

Photo of author's living room with a Christmas tree and a television with a shot of Die Hard paused, Bruce Willis' character crawling through a heat vent and with a lit Zippo lighter.

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Daniel Nester @danielnestermfa.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

When you randomly meet the hosts of #celebritymemoirbookclub at your friend's gig in the East Village.

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Daniel Nester @danielnestermfa.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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.

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