Dan's Barry Gibb Falsetto

Erich Walks Bee Gees Bass

In A World

Snippets of funny stuff from Album Oriented podcast with Erich Hertz and Daniel Nester.

Shake It Up Solo (Dan)

Brain Damage on the Mic Won't Manage (Erich)

Double Swap!

Mojoswap Sound Effect

An audio version of an essay I wrote about "Your Love," The Outfield's hit from 1986 that has endured over several decades.

Josie Reconsidered

Daniel Nester is an essayist, freelance writer, poet, writing professor, erstwhile literary journal editor, reading series curator, podcaster, and Queen superfan.

He is the author most recently of the memoir Shader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Making Out in Church, Grief, and Other Unlearnable Subjects. His other books include How to Be Inappropriate, a collection of humorous nonfiction; The Incredible Sestina Anthology, which he edited; The History of My World Tonight, a book of poems; and God Save My Queen: A Tribute and God Save My Queen II: The Show Must Go On, his first two books, which are collections on his obsession with the rock band Queen.

As a journalist and essayist, his writing has appeared in a variety of places, such as American Poetry Review, Salon, New York Times, Buzzfeed, The Atlantic online, and the Poetry Foundation website. His work has been anthologized in Lost and Found, The Best American Poetry, The Best Creative Nonfiction, Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll, and Now Write! Nonfiction.

His poems have appeared in such journals as Love’s Executive Order, Coconut, Shampoo, Barrow Street, Crazyhorse, Open City, Spoon River Poetry Review, and other places. He is the former editor of the online journals Unpleasant Event Schedule and La Petite Zine and worked as Assistant Web Editor for Sestinas for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

He is an associate professor of English at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY.