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Nathan Rabin

Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club, the entertainment guide of The Onion, a position he has held since he was a college student at University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1997. Rabin is also the author of a memoir, The Big Rewind, and an... Read full bio

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Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
A. If I could change the channel on the TV without actually getting up and doing so manually, that would be almost inconceivably awesome.
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You Don't Know Me but You Don't Like Me will be released on June 11, 2013 in Trade Paperback, eBook
May 14, 2013
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My Year of Flops is now available in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
Oct 19, 2010
My Year of Flops will be released on October 19, 2010 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
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The Big Rewind will be released on July 13, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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The Big Rewind is now available in Trade Paperback
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The Big Rewind is now available in Hardcover
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Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. I got a good Christian raisin' and an eighth grade education. Ain't no need in y'all treating me this way Q. What’s your greatest flaw? A. Where do I begin? Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain? A. Satan Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero? A. Dolemite Q. What trait is most noticeable about you? A. my terrible posture and air of ineffable sadness Learn more about Nathan Rabin

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Onion AV Club, April 12, 2013
...Hugh Howey’s Wool People who follow the book business or the movie business are probably already aware of Hugh Howey’s Wool. Simon & Schuster put out the paperback a month ago, but it was already a sensation: Author Hugh Howey self-published the...
Onion AV Club, April 12, 2013
...dive in when I’m 60, and I’ve already watched everything else that’s ever been released. Nathan Rabin The older I get, the less I am able to stomach. If something seems unbearable, I am more than ever likely to write it off completely. So while...
Huffington Post, April 5, 2013
...about so much more than the movies, he became a hero." From The A.V. Club's Nathan Rabin: "Ebert’s writing was a model for my own: engaged, friendly, and casual, but with a deep understanding of and reverence for the art and history of film, and...
Onion AV Club, April 3, 2013
...my own competing “to read” piles of fiction and non-fiction alike, and I felt a twinge of empathy. Nathan Rabin Most of what I read falls under the rubric of “ridiculous crap I had to read for work” (or rather, “ridiculous crap I chose to...
Onion AV Club, March 29, 2013
...with my family and play a fuckin’ game of charades.” That’s pretty much all I ever think. Nathan Rabin This is a big one for me, because I have what might be deemed an excess of empathy, especially where pop-culture is concerned. It seems like...
Onion AV Club, March 8, 2013
...psychedelia; it sums up everything fantastic, majestic, and demented about its era, and about rock ’n’ roll itself. Nathan Rabin The first thing that comes to mind is Magnetic Fields’ Charm Of The Highway Strip, Stephin Merritt’s audacious...
American Banking News, February 27, 2013
...NOT OPTIONAL goes video this week, as Scott Tobias, Nathan Rabin, Erik Adams, and Kyle Ryan share recommendations that you need to watch, read, or hear immediately. Discussed in this episode:DelocatedGoing Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, And The Prison...
Onion AV Club, January 18, 2013
...the Spanish Inquisition production number in History Of The World, Part One. Bad taste never tasted so good. Nathan Rabin I resolved a few years back not to write here about the books I’ve written, in an attempt to not be that obnoxious,...
Waukee Patch, January 18, 2013
...dialogue, and fine performances, Broken City is hopelessly overmatched. It has Academy Award dreams, but a detective-show heart." Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club. Do you plan on seeing this movie? Leave a review of the film with a comment below. ...
Onion AV Club, January 18, 2013
...the Spanish Inquisition production number in History Of The World, Part One. Bad taste never tasted so good. Nathan Rabin I resolved a few years back not to write here about the books I’ve written, in an attempt to not be that obnoxious,...
Manmade Mag, January 18, 2013
...Last week, Nathan Rabin stated that this final season of 30 Rock “genuinely feels like an ending” and I have to agree. Every episode this season has managed to hit the highs of...
Iowa City Patch, January 17, 2013
...dialogue, and fine performances, Broken City is hopelessly overmatched. It has Academy Award dreams, but a detective-show heart." Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club. Do you plan on seeing this movie? Leave a review of the film with a comment below. ...
Onion AV Club, January 16, 2013
...More My World Of Flops Related tv shows My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s twice-monthly survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were a financial flops, critical failures, and lack a substantial...
Onion AV Club, January 16, 2013
...More My World Of Flops Related tv shows My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s twice-monthly survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were a financial flops, critical failures, and lack a substantial...