God Save My Queen II The Show Must Go On

A collection of lyrical essays by poet and cultural critic, Daniel Nester, draws on the rock band Queen for inspiration. As in the first volume, a short essay, or riff, accompanies Queen's last five studio albums in the order they were recorded. The 'plot' covers the band's retreat from the US into secrecy, but also includes Queen's triumphant performance at Live Aid and their other European performances. Not quite memoir, neither prose poetry nor rock book, but it will, nonetheless, rock you.

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

As a journalist and essayist, his work has appeared in a variety of places, such as Salon, The New York Times, Buzzfeed, and The Atlantic. The former editor of the online journals Unpleasant Event Schedule and La Petite Zine as well as Painted Bride Quarterly and the sestinas section of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, he currently edits Pine Hills Review, the literary journal of The College of Saint Rose, where is also an associate professor of English.