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Nathan Rabin's Books
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The Big RewindFrom the head entertainment writer at The Onion A.V. Club, a hilarious and brutally-honest memoir told through the prism of pop culture.Read More
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The Onion AV Club, November 3, 2009
...More Nashville or Bust A.V. Club head writer and hip-hop specialist Nathan Rabin recently decided to spend a year or two immersing himself in the canon of country music, a genre he knew little about, but was keen to explore. The result...
Chicago Tribune, October 27, 2009
...AV Club associate editor Kyle Ryan (left) and head writer Nathan Rabin (right) brainstorm ideas with managing editor Josh Modell (center) during a production meeting in their offices in Chicago. (Photo for the Tribune by Heather Charles 'Hi,' says the...
Chicago Tribune, October 27, 2009
...land the likes of Stephen Colbert, Chris Rock, and, yes, Woody Allen. A.V. Club's head writer, Nathan Rabin, has a big-publisher autobiography out, "The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture," that has been generally well-reviewed. The...
The Onion AV Club, October 16, 2009
...something like Steinski?s ?Lesson 2 (James Brown Mix)? or The Books? ?An Animated Description Of Mr. Maps.?) Nathan Rabin I do not know how to drive, so I?m a bit underqualified to answer this question, but I am going to nevertheless...
Poynter Institute, September 22, 2009
...Romenesko Letters Nathan Rabin says The A.V. Club website that Daniel Mallory wrote about in last Saturday's Washington Post "seems to exist only in his imagination." The review, says the...
Washington Post, September 19, 2009
...THE BIG REWIND A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture By Nathan Rabin Scribner. 342 pp. $25 For more than 20 years, the faux-news syndicate the Onion has satirized geopolitical dilemmas ('Bush on North Korea: 'We Must Invade Iraq' '); civic debates ('New...
The Onion AV Club, September 18, 2009
...ve mentioned before, I really like contemporary videogames, but I also completely suck at 99 percent of them. Nathan Rabin At the risk of being predictable, I?m going to have to say I wish I had listened to country music growing up. Being a Midwestern...
The Onion AV Club, August 25, 2009
...my life now, I?ve lost the opportunity to make it part of the fabric of my past. Nathan Rabin At the risk of being woefully unoriginal, Star Wars is pretty much the only answer I can give for this. Though I have fuzzy memories of seeing the originals...
The Onion AV Club, August 14, 2009
...he could make something out of Money, for example. Hi, I?m Sean, and I like British things. Nathan Rabin Most of my dream collaborations are projects that never quite got off the ground or are stuck in a seemingly permanent state of stasis. I?d love...
ABC News, August 13, 2009
...to break up the podcast interviews with policymakers and politicians with some Summer-themed guests, this week we interviewed Nathan Rabin, head writer of The Onion?s A.V. Club and author of You can listen to the podcast on iTunes or by clicking HERE...
Boston Globe, August 2, 2009
...comes to mind) call upon that iron-clad guarantee of interest to gawkers and rubberneckers everywhere: the miserable childhood. Nathan Rabin, film critic for the satirical newspaper The Onion and the author of ?The Big Rewind,?? had one of those in...
NPR, July 28, 2009
...Movie critic Nathan Rabin chronicles the dark upbringing that he survived thanks to pop culture in his book, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture. Now 33, Rabin is...
Time Out New York, July 23, 2009
...Nathan Rabin had the kind of childhood that aspiring memoirists dream of: He spent time in a mental hospital, did a stint with an uptight foster family and lived in a...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 12, 2009
...'Another crazy Wisconsin boy makes good,' is how Boswell Book Co. describes author Nathan Rabin, the head writer of the entertainment section of the satirical newspaper The Onion. Rabin comes to town at 7 p.m. Friday to discuss and sign copies of his...
Chicago Sun-Times, July 12, 2009
...Stephanie Kuehnert signs Ballads of Suburbia, 7 p.m. at Beacon Pub, 101 Circle Ave., Forest Park. * Nathan Rabin signs The Big Rewind, 5:30 p.m. at DePaul University Bookstore, 1 E. Jackson. JULY 22 * Elizabeth Leiknes signs The Sinful Life of Lucy...
The Onion AV Club, July 11, 2009
...loud speaker?but none resonate like ?Teenage FBI,? the veritable anthem of the misfits I knew way back when. Nathan Rabin This is a bit of a cheat, but when I was 16, I got a job as a fry cook at a hot-dog place called Wolfy?s. I grew...
The Onion AV Club, July 11, 2009
...The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought To You By Pop Culture by longtime A.V. Club Head Writer Nathan Rabin. In each chapter of The Big Rewind, Rabin uses a book, song, movie, album, or television show as a springboard to discuss a period in his life....
USA Today, July 6, 2009
...Nathan Rabin had a good excuse to escape. His young life, to put it mildly, was a mess. Dysfunctional family. Mental hospitals. Foster homes. So, as a teenager, Rabin immersed himself...
Huffington Post, March 20, 2009
...describe most categories of snark, but the definition can be stated even more simply. Film and music critic Nathan Rabin of The Onion AV Club calls it 'Everything sucksism': [It's] a cheap adolescent nihilism that delights in taking down celebrities and...
Romenesko, September 22, 2009
...Romenesko Letters Nathan Rabin says The A.V. Club website that Daniel Mallory wrote about in last Saturday's Washington Post "seems to exist only in his imagination." The review, says the...
Enter the Octopus, August 26, 2009
...Paranormal Romance? John Twelve Hawks will (not exactly) appear Sales Down, Loss Up in “Transitional” Quarter at Borders Nathan Rabin’s The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You By Pop Culture E-Books: Now With Touching! Submit your pictures for...
Political Punch, August 13, 2009
...O’s WH – 8/13/2009 Clinton Dodges Question About Losing Her Cool in Congo Summer Podcast Series: Author Nathan Rabin Out of Africa White House Makes 'Viral E-Mail' of Its Own...
The Book Publicity Blog, July 31, 2009
...Things Considered Ratio Michael Ruhlman All Things Considered Wisdom Trail Janet Lieberman All Things Considered Big Rewind, The Nathan Rabin All Things Considered Books Set On Beaches Capture Seaside Scene All Things...
Cinematical, January 23, 2009
...and there's the question of if Jenny's arduous path to Oxford is even worth continuing along. ... Nathan Rabin wrote in The Onion's AV Club that he said he felt he'd seen the coming-of-age beats in An Education before, and I would, respectfully, disagree...
Finance Books, January 14, 2009
...writer; her paragraphs can be as seductive as the ad campaigns she dissects.” Onion A.V. Club - Nathan Rabin The global economy described in Naomi Klein’s No Logo is one in which American CEOs collect millions for closing down factories, companies...
A.V. Club, December 24, 2008
...20 and 21: Double Daredevil Edition starring Evel Knievel and Don Simpson The twentieth and twenty-first installment of Nathan Rabin's exploration of the shittiest show-biz books examines the reckless careers of bad boy producer Don Simpson and daredevil...
