{"product_id":"the-big-rewind-paperback","title":"The Big Rewind - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNathan Rabin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNathan Rabin viewed pop culture as a life-affirming form of escape throughout his childhood and adolescence. As an adult, pop culture became his life. Head writer for A.V. Club for more than a decade, Rabin uses specific books, songs, albums, films, and television shows as springboards for dissecting his Dickensian life story in his acclaimed memoir The Big Rewind. Rabin writes movingly and hilariously about how pop culture helped save him from suicidal despair, institutionalization, and parental abandonment during a childhood that sent him ricocheting from a mental hospital to a foster home to a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescents. A fun book about depression, The Big Rewind is ultimately a touching narrative of a motherless child's search for family and acceptance, and a darkly comic valentine to Rabin's lovable, hard-luck dad. With comic dissertations on everything from The Simpsons to The Great Gatsby, and from Grey Gardens to Dr. Dre, The Big Rewind chronicles Rabin's improbable yet all-too-true journey through life, and its fortuitous intersections with the dizzyingly wonderful world of entertainment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathan Rabin \u003c\/b\u003eis a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe Dissolve\u003c\/i\u003e, a new film website from the popular music website \u003ci\u003ePitchfork\u003c\/i\u003e. Previously, he was the head writer for \u003ci\u003eThe A.V. Club\u003c\/i\u003e, the entertainment guide of \u003ci\u003eThe Onion\u003c\/i\u003e, a position he held until recently since he was a college student at University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1997. Rabin is also the author of a memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Rewind\u003c\/i\u003e, and an essay collection based on one of his columns, \u003ci\u003eMy Year of Flops. \u003c\/i\u003eHe most recently collaborated with pop parodist \"weird Al\" Yankovic on a coffee table book titled \u003ci\u003eWeird Al: The Book\u003c\/i\u003e. Rabin's writing has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal, Spin, The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, Nerve, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eModern Humorist.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Chicago with his wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 13, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53096870084832,"sku":"9781416556213","price":26.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/ubgq7RnLop9781416556213.webp?v=1781680859","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-big-rewind-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}