Books by Nathan Rabin and Complete Book Reviews

The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture
The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture
Nathan Rabin, Author . Scribner $25 (342p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5620-6
Rabin, a writer for the Onion 's arts section, endured a dysfunctional childhood marked by parental abandonment, a stint in a mental hospital and an adolescence spent in a group home and a drug-ridden co-op house. And in this memoir, he views...
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My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep into the Heart of Cinematic Failure
My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep into the Heart of Cinematic Failure
Nathan Rabin, Scribner, $15 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5312-3
Rabin (The Big Rewind) made his mark by eagerly analyzing many of cinema's greatest failures for his Onion-based blog, The A.V. Club. Culling from that source for this collection, he thoughtfully and humorously examines films that failed...
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You Dont Know Me But You Dont Like Me: Phish
You Don't Know Me But You Don't Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music's Most Maligned Tribes
Nathan Rabin. Scribner, $16 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-4516-2688-9
Rabin, former head writer for The Onion A.V. Club, takes on two disparate, much-lampooned music fandoms in this memoir, accounting for his years recreationally following the jam band Phish and professionally covering "Juggalos", fans of Detroit...
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Weird Al: The Book
Weird Al: The Book
Nathan Rabin, with Al Yankovic. Abrams Image, $29.95 (208p) ISBN 9781419704352
The story of Alfred Matthew Yankovic's unlikely rise to fame as song parodist nonpareil "Weird Al" is adoringly chronicled by longtime fan Rabin (My Year of Flops) in this fun and colorful coffee table book. Rather than write his own autobiography—so
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