Nathan Rabin

Nathan Rabin is a staff writer for The Dissolve , a new film website from the popular music website Pitchfork . Previously, he was the head writer for The A.V. Club , the entertainment guide of The Onion , 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, The Big Rewind , and an essay collection based on one of his columns, My Year of Flops. He most recently collaborated with pop parodist "weird...See more

Nathan Rabin is a staff writer for The Dissolve , a new film website from the popular music website Pitchfork . Previously, he was the head writer for The A.V. Club , the entertainment guide of The Onion , 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, The Big Rewind , and an essay collection based on one of his columns, My Year of Flops. He most recently collaborated with pop parodist "weird Al" Yankovic on a coffee table book titled Weird Al: The Book . Rabin's writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Spin, The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, Nerve, and Modern Humorist. He lives in Chicago with his wife. See less