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Maria Schneider of The Onion and Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club will be doing a co-reading and co-signing at Borders Columbus Circle on Thursday, Nov 11 at 7pm.
Maria Schneider, is the voice and brain behind "A Book of Jean's Own! by Jean Teasdale." This is the first full book by one of The Onion's columnists.
Nathan Rabin takes on films that failed critically and gives them a closer look, reconsidering them all and giving them a fair shot, in "My Year of Flops."
A few words from the author and eponymous columnist behind The Onion's column, ’A Room of Jean's Own,’ Jean Teasdale:
Hi Jeanketeers and Jeanketeers-to-be!! As The Onion's very own Humor and Human-Interest columnist, I've been entertaining readers for 15 years with kooky tales of life with my hubby and our two feline children. Now for the first time, li'l ol' me shines front-and-center in a book of my very own! A Book of Jean's Own! features all-original, never-before-published material, and if that wasn't impressive enough, marks the very first Onion book by a solo writer! Historical, huh? My book is sure to find an eager audience among The Onion's ten-million-strong readership. Wait, ten million people? I had no idea! Frankly, that scares me a little. We're not inKansas anymore, Toto! (Oh shoot, I should have put that hilarious phrase in my book!)
A Book of Jean's Own! also marks a departure from past Onion books in that it isn't crammed with headlines and articles in teeny-weeny print! Instead, I write about the stuff that really matters: shopping, chocolate, part-time jobs, and hot Hollywood hunks! Whether you read my book on the bus, the beach,
or the toilet, you're guaranteed to find something to chuckle at and deeply relate to!
"My Year of Flops" by Nathan Rabin
In 2007, Nathan Rabin set out to provide a revisionist look at the history of cinematic failure on a weekly basis. What began as a solitary ramble through the nooks and crannies of pop culture evolved into a way of life. My Year Of Flops collects dozens of the best-loved entries from the A.V. Club column along with bonus interviews and fifteen brand-new entries covering everything from notorious flops like The Cable Guy andLast Action Hero to bizarre obscurities like Glory Road, Johnny Cash’s poignantly homemade tribute to Jesus. Driven by a unique combination of sympathy and Schadenfreude, My Year Of Flops is an unforgettable tribute to cinematic losers, beautiful and otherwise.
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