The Big Rewind
A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture
Published on 7. July 2009
352 pages
978-1-4391-6576-8 (ISBN)
Description
From the head entertainment writer at The Onion A.V. Club, a hilarious and brutally-honest memoir told through the prism of pop culture.
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07/2010
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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Nathan Rabin
Content
- Cover
- Colophon
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction
- Experience Male Genital Mutilation in a Celebratory Environment "King Without a Crown" / My Summer Among the Hasidim
- The Genius of Escapism Sullivan's Travels / Nathan's Bogus Journey Through the Awkward Years
- ¡El Pollo Loco, él es el hombre! Girl, Interrupted / Cold Chillin' at the Nuthouse
- The Awful Intensity of the Moment The Great Gatsby / The Wolfsheims
- The Burrito Pimp of the Soup Kitchen and Son The Catcher in the Rye / Crash-Landing at Winchester House
- The Blood-Splattered Punchline In Utero / The Prepubescent Trickster God of Rogers Park
- Lukewarm Crawlspace Vermouth The Chronic / The Group Home
- The House Slave and Nat Turner, or It All Comes Out in the End Apocalypse Now / The Long, Strange Reign of King Herschel
- Wayne the Video Store Vampire Reservoir Dogs / Blockbuster
- She Really Worked Me Over Good, She Was a Credit to Her Gender "Maggie May" / Emma G
- You Must Be the Jew "Brick" / Judy
- One of Us, One of Us! Freaks / Le Shithole
- The Walking Dead Like Me The Charm of the Highway Strip / The Chapter Where I Go AWOL from My Life
- A Woefully Premature Happy Ending 8 Mile / Permanent Temporary Happiness Forever
- You Know Mom's Crazy, Right? Grey Gardens / Meeting BM
- Fresh Kid Turned Rotten "What's Up, Fatlip?" / Fear and Self-Loathing in Madison
- Living Like a Gypsy Queen in a Fairy Tale "My Old School" / Twin Trips to the Whorehouse
- I Enjoy Talking to Famous People Don't Look Back / Tales Beyond the Transcript
- Yesterday I Was a Sun God The Bad and the Beautiful / Head Producer Guy
- Confessions of a Moderately Likeable Gay Everyman "Homer's Enemy" / Zorianna Kit
- Let the Omnisexual Fuckfest Begin! Weekend / The Story of O
- Please Don't Confront Me with My Failures, I Have Not Forgotten Them Siskel & Ebert / Siskel & Ebert & Roeper & Ridley & Z & Me
- Acknowledgments
