The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room

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From the three-time Emmy nominated actor, climate activist, and author of Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution—Rainn Wilson’s memoir is about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life.

For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and media company, SoulPancake, that eventually became a bestselling book of the same name. He also started a hilarious Twitter feed (sample tweet: “I'm not on Facebook” is the new “I don't even own a TV”) that now has more than four million followers.
 
Now, he's ready to tell his own story and explain how he came up with his incredibly unique sense of humor and perspective on life. He explains how he grew up “bone-numbingly nerdy before there was even a modicum of cool attached to the word.” The Bassoon King chronicles his journey from nerd to drama geek (“the highest rung on the vast, pimply ladder of high school losers”), his years of mild debauchery and struggles as a young actor in New York, his many adventures and insights about The Office, and finally, Wilson's achievement of success and satisfaction, both in his career and spiritually, reconnecting with the artistic and creative values of the Bahá’í faith he grew up in.

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4.6
27 reviews
Kenneth Rivera
January 17, 2016
I wouldn't have minded more of everything. I loved reading the insider bits. One thing tho: Rainn seems to have many "life defining"moments. Almost too many.
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Mr.Nathaniel Johnson
May 8, 2017
One of the greatest autobios I've ever read! A must read for Office lovers, people going thru a difficult time and anybody looking for an answer to... Any question! Outstanding and breathtaking
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Meredith Stirling
November 13, 2015
Beautiful and honest. I didn't think I could love Rainn Wilson more, I was wrong.
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About the author

RAINN WILSON is best known for his Emmy-nominated role as Dwight Schrute on NBC’s The Office, though today he’s equally well-known for his millions of Twitter followers and the philosophy website he founded, SoulPancake. He is the author of Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution, as well as the coauthor of SoulPancake: Chew on Life’s Big Questions, a New York Times bestseller.

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