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'''Nathan Rabin''' ({{IPAc-en|n|eɪ|ˈ|ð|ɨ|n|_|r|ɑː|ˈ|b|iː|n}}; born April 24, 1976) is an American [[film critic|film]] and [[music critic]].<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1909930,00.html The Onion's Nathan Rabin] Time Magazine</ref> A graduate of the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]], Rabin was the first head writer for ''[[The A.V. Club]]'',<ref>[http://www.avclub.com/users/nathan-rabin,7/ Articles by Nathan Rabin] at ''The AV Club''</ref> a position he held until 2013.<ref name="update">[http://www.avclub.com/articles/an-update-from-the-av-club,97016/ An Update from the AV Club] ''The AV Club'' April 26, 2013</ref> Currently, he is a staff writer for The Dissolve, a film website operated by [[Pitchfork Media]].<ref name="dissolve">[http://pitchfork.com/news/50949-introducing-the-dissolve-a-new-film-site/ "Introducing The Dissolve, A New Film Site"], Pitchfork Media, May 30, 2013</ref>
'''Nathan Rabin''' ({{IPAc-en|n|eɪ|ˈ|ð|ɨ|n|_|r|ɑː|ˈ|b|iː|n}}; born April 24, 1976) is an American [[film critic|film]] and [[music critic]].<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1909930,00.html The Onion's Nathan Rabin] Time Magazine</ref> A graduate of the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]], Rabin was the first head writer for ''[[The A.V. Club]]'',<ref>[http://www.avclub.com/users/nathan-rabin,7/ Articles by Nathan Rabin] at ''The AV Club''</ref> a position he held until he left the ''Onion'' organization in 2013.<ref name="update">[http://www.avclub.com/articles/an-update-from-the-av-club,97016/ An Update from the AV Club] ''The AV Club'' April 26, 2013</ref> Currently, he is a staff writer for The Dissolve, a film website operated by [[Pitchfork Media]].<ref name="dissolve">[http://pitchfork.com/news/50949-introducing-the-dissolve-a-new-film-site/ "Introducing The Dissolve, A New Film Site"], Pitchfork Media, May 30, 2013</ref>


==Life and career==
==Life and career==
He coined the phrase [[manic pixie dream girl]] as a [[stock character|cinematic type]].<ref>[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95507953 Manic Pixie Dream Girls: A Cinematic Scourge?] All Things Considered, October 9, 2008</ref> He was a panelist on the short-lived basic cable show "Movie Club with [[John Ridley]]" on [[American Movie Classics]]. In 2007, he began My Year of Flops on ''The A.V. Club'', where he re-evaluated films that were shunned by critics, ignored by audiences, or both, at their time of release.<ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-07-06-nathan-rabin-the-big-rewind_N.htm 'Onion' writer Nathan Rabin rewinds big-time for memoir] USA Today, July 6, 2009</ref> As of January 2008, the year was finished, but he continued the project as a bi-monthly feature. Other ongoing features Rabin wrote for [[The A.V Club|''The A.V Club'']] include Dispatches From Direct-To-DVD Purgatory, a tongue-in-cheek look at DVD premieres, reviews for TV shows like ''[[Louie (TV series)|Louie]]'', Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club,<ref>[http://www.avclub.com/features/silly-little-showbiz-book-club/ Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club] at the AV Club,</ref> a humorous exploration of trashy books about entertainment, and Ephemereview, which offers critiques of sub-reviewable pop-culture detritus.
He coined the phrase [[manic pixie dream girl]] as a [[stock character|cinematic type]] in 2007.<ref>[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95507953 Manic Pixie Dream Girls: A Cinematic Scourge?] All Things Considered, October 9, 2008</ref> He was a panelist on the short-lived basic cable show "Movie Club with [[John Ridley]]" on [[American Movie Classics]]. In 2007, he began My Year of Flops on ''The A.V. Club'', where he reevaluated films that were shunned by critics, ignored by audiences, or both, at their time of release.<ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-07-06-nathan-rabin-the-big-rewind_N.htm 'Onion' writer Nathan Rabin rewinds big-time for memoir] ''[[USA Today]]'', July 6, 2009</ref> As of January 2008, the year was finished, but he continued the project as a bimonthly feature. Other ongoing features Rabin wrote for ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' include Dispatches From Direct-To-DVD Purgatory, a tongue-in-cheek look at DVD premieres; reviews for TV shows like ''[[Louie (TV series)|Louie]]''; Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club,<ref>[http://www.avclub.com/features/silly-little-showbiz-book-club/ Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club] at the AV Club</ref> a humorous exploration of trashy books about entertainment; and Ephemereview, which offers critiques of sub-reviewable pop-culture detritus.


Rabin released his memoir in 2009, ''The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought To You By Pop Culture,'' (2009, ISBN 978-1-4165-5620-6) which was published by [[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]].<ref>[http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Nathan-Rabin/45083314 The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought To You By Pop Culture] promo page at Simon & Schuster</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' gave the book a negative review, calling it a "...failed project is brought to you by pop culture."<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/18/AR2009091803352.html?hpid=artsliving The Layers of a Pungent Life] The Washington Post</ref> while ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote, "[Rabin] has packed [The Big Rewind] like a cannon, full of caustic wit and bruised feelings" in its more positive review.<ref name="nytimes">[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/books/22garner.html Memories of a Train Wreck Diverted] The New York Times, July 21, 2009</ref> The book uses novels such as ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'', musical recordings such as ''[[The Charm of the Highway Strip]]'' by [[The Magnetic Fields]] and other pop culture items as a springboard to discuss its author's tragi-comic adolescence as a guest of a mental hospital, a foster family whose patience and generosity he jokes "knew only strict, unyielding boundaries" and the Jewish Children's Bureau group home system as well as his career with ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' and the short-lived film review show ''Movie Club With [[John Ridley]]'' which he appeared on.<ref name="nytimes"/> The book ends with a chapter about Rabin's unsuccessful audition to fill in for [[Roger Ebert]] as a guest critic on ''[[At the Movies (U.S. TV series)|At the Movies]].'' Scribner also published a book version of ''My Year of Flops'' (2010, ISBN 1-4391-5312-4).<ref>[http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Nathan-Rabin/45083314/author_revealed "My Year of Flops"] promo page at Simon & Schuster</ref>
Rabin released his memoir in 2009, ''The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought To You By Pop Culture'', (2009, ISBN 978-1-4165-5620-6) which was published by [[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]].<ref>[http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Nathan-Rabin/45083314 The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought To You By Pop Culture] promotional page at Simon & Schuster</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' gave the book a negative review, calling it a "...failed project is brought to you by pop culture."<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/18/AR2009091803352.html?hpid=artsliving The Layers of a Pungent Life] The Washington Post</ref> while ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote, "[Rabin] has packed [The Big Rewind] like a cannon, full of caustic wit and bruised feelings" in its more positive review.<ref name="nytimes">[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/books/22garner.html Memories of a Train Wreck Diverted] The New York Times, July 21, 2009</ref> The book uses novels such as ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'', musical recordings such as ''[[The Charm of the Highway Strip]]'' by [[The Magnetic Fields]] and other pop culture items as a springboard to discuss its author's tragi-comic adolescence as a guest of a mental hospital, a foster family whose patience and generosity he jokes "knew only strict, unyielding boundaries" and the Jewish Children's Bureau group home system as well as his career with ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' and the short-lived film review show ''Movie Club With [[John Ridley]]'' which he appeared on.<ref name="nytimes"/> The book ends with a chapter about Rabin's unsuccessful audition to fill in for [[Roger Ebert]] as a guest critic on ''[[At the Movies (U.S. TV series)|At the Movies]]''. Scribner also published a book version of ''My Year of Flops'' (2010, ISBN 1-4391-5312-4).<ref>[http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Nathan-Rabin/45083314/author_revealed "My Year of Flops"] promo page at Simon & Schuster</ref>


On April 23, 2013, The AV Club announced that Rabin, Tasha Robinson, Genievive Koski, and Noel Murray would be leaving to start a new web-based project with former staffers Scott Tobias and Keith Phipps.<ref name="update"/> On May 30, 2013, this project was revealed to be The Dissolve.<ref name="dissolve"/>
On April 23, 2013, The A.V. Club announced that Rabin, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski, and Noel Murray would be leaving to start a new web-based project with former staffers Scott Tobias and Keith Phipps.<ref name="update"/> On May 30, 2013, this project was revealed to be The Dissolve.<ref name="dissolve"/> In addition to criticism for The Dissolve, Rabin also writes the biweekly feature Forgotbusters,<ref>[http://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/ Forgotbusters] at The Dissolve</ref> a reexamination of culturally obscure films that had relatively high box-office grosses when they were released.


Rabin is Jewish.<ref>[http://bygonebureau.com/2009/07/27/a-better-kind-of-scum-an-interview-with-nathan-rabin/ “A Better Kind of Scum”: An Interview with Nathan Rabin] The Bygone Bureau, July 27, 2009</ref>
Rabin is Jewish.<ref>[http://bygonebureau.com/2009/07/27/a-better-kind-of-scum-an-interview-with-nathan-rabin/ “A Better Kind of Scum”: An Interview with Nathan Rabin] The Bygone Bureau, July 27, 2009</ref> He has described himself as "a longtime [[Chicago White Sox]] super-fan."<ref>[http://www.avclub.com/article/emedem-36397 I Watched This On Purpose: ''Ed''] ''The A.V. Club'', December 16, 2009]</ref>


==Books==
==Books==
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Nathan Rabin
Born (1976-04-24) April 24, 1976 (age 48)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Occupation(s)Writer, film critic, music critic

Nathan Rabin (/neɪˈð[invalid input: 'ɨ']n rɑːˈbiːn/; born April 24, 1976) is an American film and music critic.[1] A graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Rabin was the first head writer for The A.V. Club,[2] a position he held until he left the Onion organization in 2013.[3] Currently, he is a staff writer for The Dissolve, a film website operated by Pitchfork Media.[4]

Life and career

He coined the phrase manic pixie dream girl as a cinematic type in 2007.[5] He was a panelist on the short-lived basic cable show "Movie Club with John Ridley" on American Movie Classics. In 2007, he began My Year of Flops on The A.V. Club, where he reevaluated films that were shunned by critics, ignored by audiences, or both, at their time of release.[6] As of January 2008, the year was finished, but he continued the project as a bimonthly feature. Other ongoing features Rabin wrote for The A.V. Club include Dispatches From Direct-To-DVD Purgatory, a tongue-in-cheek look at DVD premieres; reviews for TV shows like Louie; Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club,[7] a humorous exploration of trashy books about entertainment; and Ephemereview, which offers critiques of sub-reviewable pop-culture detritus.

Rabin released his memoir in 2009, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought To You By Pop Culture, (2009, ISBN 978-1-4165-5620-6) which was published by Scribner.[8] The Washington Post gave the book a negative review, calling it a "...failed project is brought to you by pop culture."[9] while The New York Times wrote, "[Rabin] has packed [The Big Rewind] like a cannon, full of caustic wit and bruised feelings" in its more positive review.[10] The book uses novels such as The Great Gatsby, musical recordings such as The Charm of the Highway Strip by The Magnetic Fields and other pop culture items as a springboard to discuss its author's tragi-comic adolescence as a guest of a mental hospital, a foster family whose patience and generosity he jokes "knew only strict, unyielding boundaries" and the Jewish Children's Bureau group home system as well as his career with The A.V. Club and the short-lived film review show Movie Club With John Ridley which he appeared on.[10] The book ends with a chapter about Rabin's unsuccessful audition to fill in for Roger Ebert as a guest critic on At the Movies. Scribner also published a book version of My Year of Flops (2010, ISBN 1-4391-5312-4).[11]

On April 23, 2013, The A.V. Club announced that Rabin, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski, and Noel Murray would be leaving to start a new web-based project with former staffers Scott Tobias and Keith Phipps.[3] On May 30, 2013, this project was revealed to be The Dissolve.[4] In addition to criticism for The Dissolve, Rabin also writes the biweekly feature Forgotbusters,[12] a reexamination of culturally obscure films that had relatively high box-office grosses when they were released.

Rabin is Jewish.[13] He has described himself as "a longtime Chicago White Sox super-fan."[14]

Books

  • The Tenacity Of The Cockroach: Conversations With Entertainment's Most Enduring Outsiders (2002), with The AV Club staff
  • The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You By Pop Culture (2009)
  • Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists (2009), with The AV Club staff
  • My Year of Flops (2011)
  • Weird Al: The Book (2012) with "Weird Al" Yankovic
  • 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 (2013)[15]

References

  1. ^ The Onion's Nathan Rabin Time Magazine
  2. ^ Articles by Nathan Rabin at The AV Club
  3. ^ a b An Update from the AV Club The AV Club April 26, 2013
  4. ^ a b "Introducing The Dissolve, A New Film Site", Pitchfork Media, May 30, 2013
  5. ^ Manic Pixie Dream Girls: A Cinematic Scourge? All Things Considered, October 9, 2008
  6. ^ 'Onion' writer Nathan Rabin rewinds big-time for memoir USA Today, July 6, 2009
  7. ^ Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club at the AV Club
  8. ^ The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought To You By Pop Culture promotional page at Simon & Schuster
  9. ^ The Layers of a Pungent Life The Washington Post
  10. ^ a b Memories of a Train Wreck Diverted The New York Times, July 21, 2009
  11. ^ "My Year of Flops" promo page at Simon & Schuster
  12. ^ Forgotbusters at The Dissolve
  13. ^ “A Better Kind of Scum”: An Interview with Nathan Rabin The Bygone Bureau, July 27, 2009
  14. ^ I Watched This On Purpose: Ed The A.V. Club, December 16, 2009]
  15. ^ The AV Club

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